Basic Chocolate Chip Cookies

Valentine's Day is coming up and what better to give than homemade sweets?  How about homemade healthier sweets?  Anytime you can sneak some fiber, protein, vitamins, and or minerals into your food, without sabotaging the taste, is a win in my eyes.  Whole wheat flour is great for you, but the taste is a little too earthy for most.  Did you know that white whole wheat flour has the same nutritional value as whole wheat flour?  The two flours are made from different wheat plants.  White whole wheat flour does not contain the compound in (red) whole wheat flour responsible for that wheat like taste.   The end result is a more mild product that still has a good nutritional advantage over refined white flour.  


This recipe calls for brown sugar which I showed you how to make in my last post (here).  Try it and you might impress yourself.


Ingredients:

• 7 Tablespoons butter, melted
• 1/2 Cup brown sugar
• 1 Tablespoon Splenda
• 1 large egg white
• 2 Tablespoons heavy cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 Cup white whole wheat flour 
• 1/4 Cup almond flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 pinch salt
• 3/4 Cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Makes approximately 17 large cookies.


Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Mix melted butter and sugars in a medium bowl until creamy.

Add in egg white, heavy cream, and vanilla extract making sure to mix thoroughly.

Gradually mix in flours, baking soda, and salt.  Note: I never mix the dry ingredients in a separate bowl.  I just throw the ingredients in and get an arm workout.  
Lastly add chocolate chips.

Lay cookie dough approximately in 1 inch rounds on a parchment lined baking sheet making sure not to overcrowd the cookies.  Softly flatten the cookies.

Cook for 10 minutes or until golden brown.  Allow cookies to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.  Continue baking batches of cookies and or store dough for future use.  

Verdict: Chewy on the inside and crunchy on the outside, just like a chocolate chip cookie should be.  Plus each cookie has 1 gram of belly filling fiber.