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Recipe for the Best, Healthiest Chocolate Chip Cookies

by Gemma P.

These cookies are the most healthiest and tasty I've ever had. No sugar high or crash after you've eaten them. People go cuckoo for them!

Active Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes

Ingredients

1 cup date paste (mash down about 2 cups of dates, pitted, in the cuisinart)
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 eggs
1/2 t baking soda
1/2 t sea salt
lots of vanilla extract (I like to use about 3 T)
2 cups spelt flour
1 cup chocolate chips
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup dried cranberries (optional)

Directions

  1. Make date paste in cuisinart.
  2. Add in butter, eggs, baking soda, sea salt, and vanilla and mix. Add spelt flour and mix.
  3. Transfer dough to a bowl, and stir in chocolate chips, walnuts, and dried cranberries.
  4. Drop onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake at 375 degrees. Check after 10 minutes. Remove from over when browned to your liking.

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4 star rating July 31, 2008

Chocolate by any other name -

This looks like a great recipe and I plan to give it a try, but I'll have to call it something different. My family would riot if I prepared them for chocolate chip cookies and they bit into a cranberry!

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