---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: Chewy Spice Cookies
 Categories: Cookies
      Yield: 6 servings
 
           -----------cookies-----
      1 c  Sugar
      1 c  Molasses
    1/4 c  Applesauce
    1/4 c  Skim milk
      2 tb Vegetable oil
      1 ts Rum flavoring
  3 1/2 c  All-purpose flour
  1 1/2 ts Ground ginger
      1 ts Baking soda
    1/2 ts Ground cloves
    1/2 ts Ground nutmeg
    1/4 ts Ground allspice
    1/8 ts Salt
           Vegetable cooking spray

           -------------icing-------
      4 c  Sifted confectioners sugar
      4 tb Skim milk
      1 ts Skim milk
      2 tb Lemon juice
      2 tb Grated lemon zest
 
    Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  For cookies, beat sugar, molasses,
    applesauce, milk, oil and rum flavoring in a large bowl until
    will-blended.  In a medium bowl, combine flour, ginger, baking soda,
    cloves, nutmeg, allspice, and salt.  Add dry ingredients, on third at
    a time, to sugar mixture; stir until a soft dough forms.  Spray hands
    with cooking spray.  Shape teaspoonsful of dough into balls and
    flatten slightly with fingers.  place 2 inches apart on a baking
    sheet lightly sprayed with cooking spray.  Bake 6 to 8 minutes or
    until bottoms are lightly browned.  Transfer cookies to a wire rack
    with waxed paper underneath to cool.
  
    For icing, combine all ingredients in a medium bowl; stir until
    smooth. ice cookies.  Allow icing to harden.  Store in an airtight
    container.
  
    1 serving (1 cookie): 70 calories, 0.5 gram fat, 0.7 gram protein, 16
    grams carbohydrate.
  
    Source: "The Cookie Jar"
 
-----