How many calories are in that recipe?
Most of the weight of a 'baked goods' (cookies, muffins, pastries, etc.) comes from flour, sweetener (sugars or syrups), and fat (butter or oil). Since these ingredients are all >100-calories per ounce, the same will apply to the final product. To reduce calories per serving usually requires replacing some fat (butter or oil) with lower calorie moisteners (banana puree, prune puree). On the other hand chocolate and nuts (running 134- to 167-calories per ounce) increase the final calories per ounce of the final product.
Calories of Common Baking Ingredients
Ingredient Calories per ounce weight
Banana puree.......................... ... 25
Brown Rice Syrup..................... .. 92
Butter (~2 Tbl.).................. ...... 203
Chocolate, dark.................... ...... 134
Chocolate, milk..................... ..... 145
Dried fruit (raisins,
cranberries, dates, etc.)............ 85
Eggs, whole............................ .... 40
Flour, white................................ 103
Flour, whole wheat..................... 97
Molasses................................. .... 82
Nuts (average)......................... 167
Oat Bran................................. .... 70
Oats, whole............................... 110
Oil (~2 Tbl.)................................ 250
Prune puree................................. 73
Sugar, brown............................. 107
Sugar, white.............................. 110
Wheat Bran............................ ..... 61