Help me convert this recipe please :)

[Taryn237]

I'm craving these cookies! Oatmeal cranberry - yum! They need to be top 8 free.

Oatmeal Cookies

Mix Well:

¾ c. butter - change to palm shortening or coconut oil? or a combo?
1 c. brown sugar
½ c. white sugar - can I just use all sucanet?
1 egg - flax egg
¼ c. water
1 Tsp. vanilla

Mix Separately:
3 c. oats - gf oats
1 c. dried cranberries
1 c. flour - rice? buckwheat? sorghum?
1 tsp salt
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp cinnamon

With Wooden spoon combine wet and dry ingredients.
Bake at 350 for 10 – 15 min

Do you think I need to add a gum? I have xanthan. Or tapioca starch?

[kjbrown92]

I would change the butter to palm shortening.
I don't know anything about sucanet. If you can use cane sugar (with the brown sugar), then I'd just do the regular white sugar. Flax egg will probably work. But I'd either use a gum or possibly add another flax egg. Since egg is a binder AND a rising agent, if it were me, I'd add a 1/2 tsp. baking powder as well. And for the 1. flour, I'd do 3/4 c. of one flour, and 1/4 c. of tapioca starch, because cookies seem to do well with a combination of a couple flours. I wish we could have oats...

[Taryn237]

Thanks Kathy! Here's your sucanat lesson (from wiki):

Sucanat (a contraction of "Sugar Cane Natural") is non-refined cane sugar.[1] Unlike refined and processed white sugar, Sucanat retains its molasses content; it is essentially pure dried sugar cane juice. The juice is extracted by mechanical processes, heated and cooled at which point the small brown grainy crystals are formed. Sucanat is generally accepted as a substitute for brown sugar.

I'm out of regular cane sugar so I am just going to sub this and hope these work!

[kjbrown92]

So I guess I have to look up the differences, because there's "raw sugar", and there's "Demerara sugar", and now "sucanat" (which I thought was a sugar substitute, so it shows you how much I know). Aren't they all just sugar?