Cookies!!

Any fun weekend ends in baking. I love baking...so here is a good recipe for some whole-wheat chocolate chip cookies....yes, whole-wheat!! They are really good and have kind of a "nuttier" flavor. They also have a little bit less sugar than a normal cookie recipe...Here it is!


Whole-Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 1/4 cups whole-wheat flour (or white whole-wheat flour - can be found at like Henry's I think)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt (LESS if you are using salted butter!!!)
1 cup softened UNSALTED butter....or salted, but then use less salt...
1 1/4 cup packed dark or light brown sugar (yummm!)
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-2 cups MILK chocolate chips (believe me, you WILL taste the difference)
1 cup walnuts (if you want!)

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Line a baking sheet (or two) with parchment paper (or spray it with Pam!).
3. In a small/medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set it aside for later.
4. In a larger bowl (or stand mixer), beat together the butter and the sugar until smooth.
5. Add eggs, one at a time. Beat in each egg thoroughly!
6. Add vanilla.
7. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture at a time to the butter/sugar/egg mixture. Do not beat too much!
8. Remove the bowl from the mixer (if using one) and fold in the chocolate chips and walnuts (if using).
9. Get a spoon and eat some cookie dough :)
10. Drop by tablespoon-fuls onto the cookie sheet and bake in the preheated oven for about 10-12 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
11. While cookies are baking, eat some more cookie dough :)



If you want, you can place a bunch of dough balls onto a baking sheet and put it into the freezer and then when they are all frozen, transfer them to a plastic bag so that you can have cookies to bake anytime!! These are yummy cookies and trust me, you won't be able to taste the whole wheat in there :)