Chocolate Chip Cookies

Who doesn't like a good chocolate chipper every once and a while!?

Well, most chocolate chip cookies you purchase in the store, bakery, or from a fast food joint come with about 30+ ingredients, most of which you can't pronounce and the ones you can pronouce are just plain bad for you... So, I have experimented and adapted some of my favorite recipes for this special treat that we make if we have guests over...

DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

INGREDIENTS:
2 1/4 cup of Organic Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp kosher sea salt
1 Cup of Kerrygold Butter, softened (or melted) - 1 big block (or 2 sticks of organic butter)
3/4 cup Organic Evaporated Cane Juice (Sugar)
3/4 cup Fair Trade Organic Brown Sugar (or sucanat)
2 Pastured Free-Range Eggs
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup of Good Chocolate Chips... I use THESE (only 3 ingredients. Happy dance!)

DIRECTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix up dry ingredients and set aside
3. Mix up other ingredients (eggs, butter, sugar, brown sugar, vanilla)
4. Slowly add dry ingredients into bowl using an electric hand mixer on low.. Confession:: I have added everything to one big bowl all at once and it turned out great too :)
5. Add Chocolate Chips.
6. Scoop into balls and bake for 8-10 minutes depending on your cookie softness preferences

These things are good. Dangerously good. And yes, they have sugar. So, it most definitely is a TREAT and not a NORM! :)

You can also double the batch and keep some in the freezer for a quick dough on the go! (Much better for you than the big dough tub from Costco)