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Healthy Holiday Desserts: 100% Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies

December 8th, 2009 · 21 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition, recipes

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chocolate chip cookies 3I don’t understand it, but I’m going to embrace it!  I have finally made proper chocolate chip cookies, a feat I have been unable to do since getting married.

It was like a curse – no matter what troubleshooting I did or how I fidgeted with the recipe on the chocolate chip bag, my mom’s perfect cookie recipe, or the method I used, I always ended up with cookies described this way:

  1. flat
  2. thin
  3. floppy
  4. spread out
  5. crispy on the edges (not in a good way)

I just couldn’t do it.

Then I printed a coupon for whole wheat flour and with it came this recipe.  I finally got around to making them, changing the fats to healthy fats, and the results were amazing.  Not only is this the perfect melt in your mouth, buttery soft chocolate chip cookie, but it’s 100% whole wheat too.  I didn’t even have to use white whole wheat.  My hunch?  It’s the coconut oil.

Recipe:  Healthy Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies

3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup unrefined coconut oil, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chips
optional:  add chopped walnuts (Mmmm!)

1. Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, beat sugars, butter, oil, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on low speed until blended. Beat in flour, baking soda and salt until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips.

2. On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart.

3. Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until very light golden brown (centers will be soft). Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.

Ta da!  How beautiful are these?

chocolate chip cookies 2

I served them at my real food Pampered Chef party, and they went over great.  I honestly don’t know if you’d guess that they were “healthy” if you didn’t know.

Find more Healthy Holiday Eats and Sweets at Keeper of the Home today.

I have to give a Healthy Dessert shout out to GNOWFGLINS’ Peppermint Pattie Coconut Bark and Almond Joy Bark, both of which I made today.  You should have seen my in-laws eyes pop after I told them there was nothing unhealthy about this candy they were savouring.  Seriously good stuff!

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