Healthy Treat for Today: Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies
ByDid you try making your very own homemade chocolate chips, er, chiumpks?!
Yes, they’re different than store bought ones…
But we really like them! And, I think I’ll keep playing with them to see about making them with butter…just to see if that works too!
I have really enjoyed munching on the trail mix…I love the combo of all the nuts with the fruit…and of course the CHOCOLATE!!
So now, here’s a recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies, using unprocessed flour and sugar. These have a different flavor than you’re probably used to with a CC cookie…because all of the good stuff hasn’t been stripped out of the ingredients you’re putting in.
We think they’re just as good, if not better…
And when I’ve fed these to company (minus the homemade chocolate chips…I just tried those this week), they LOVE them. And they don’t even know there’s good stuff in them!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 sticks butter, melted
1 1/2 cups rapadura or sucanat
2 eggs
1 t. sea salt
1 t. baking soda
1 t. vanilla
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1/2 – 1 cup homemade chocolate chips (I tend to be a little stingy on the chocolate chips that are homemade…I kind of want the batch to last longer!)
Mix melted butter and rapadura. Add eggs and stir well. Mix in salt, baking soda and vanilla. Stir in the flour until all combined. Fold in chocolate chips. Drop teaspoon sized pieces of dough onto a cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
Now, of course I picked out some of the prettier ones to show you…and just so you don’t wonder why some of yours didn’t turn out that pretty…
The homemade chocolate chiumpks in these just melted allllll over the place.
Maybe we could call those Chocolate Swirl Cookies?! (Sounds better than Runny Chocolate Blob Cookies.)
The good thing is…they taste great no matter what!
My kids had NO complaints about eating the ugly less fortunate looking ones.
Stay tuned for our next recipe…Peanut Butter Raisin Balls…sent in by Krista.
As you can tell, this series of healthy treat recipes is not going to end any time soon! I still have to talk about smoothies and coconut macaroons and…
There are SOOO many great things to make. Please send me any ideas you would like to share!
You can also try substituting 1C of Barley flour for 1C of W. Wheat. It’s tasty! I also used raisins and walnuts instead of chocolate and added 3/4t of pumpkin pie spice. Yum!
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Thanks so much ! im definatly gonna try this one!:)
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I made them just like the recipe and they were yummy. I plan to substitute other sweeteners next time. Will comment when I do.
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I made these tonight with one stick of butter, 1/2 cup honey, and 1/2 cup maple syrup. I also just mixed everything together randomly. They were cake-like with a delicious buttery taste!
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I’ve made these before with store-bought chocolate chips and they’re delicious! I tried the other night with homemade chocolate chips (using coconut oil because I didn’t have another stick of butter to spare for the chips) and the chocolate didn’t just run all over the cookies – the cookies got all liquidy and ran into each other! I kept looking through the window hoping they’d start baking, but after 10 minutes I just had a cookie sheet sized mess of runny half-baked dough. This has never happened to me before! Do you suppose it could have been the coconut oil in the chips?
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