Cookies!

My little ones and I made some yummy cookies to take to my Sister’s house last Sunday. They were de-lish-ous! I promised to send her the recipe, it is kind of a made up recipe form my cousin Kelly. I have been trying to use wheat flour where ever possible lately. So these cookies have some wheat. That is kind of dangerous in a cookie though, because when you eat them, you think, well they aren’t so bad for you, after all they have wheat flour, right? This thought only pops up after you have eaten one cookie. Then the thought happens, which justifies another cookie, and another, and
another.

Here is the recipe:

1 cup white sugar
1 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup butter - softened
2 eggs (or egg replacer*)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 ½ cups all purpose flour
1 ½ cups whole wheat flour
2 cups chocolate chips

Directions: First beat together the sugars and the butter. Add the vanilla and the eggs (or egg replacer). Then add in the dry ingredients until just mixed in. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop scoops of the batter onto a cookie sheet and bake in a 350 degree, preheated oven for 11 or 12 minutes. I like cookies to be kind of soft, if you like crunchy, you can cook them at a higher temp for less time.

So about the egg replacer, I buy it from EnerGfoods, it is a dairy free egg substitute made for cooking. I like using it because my little ones love cookie dough, and it just seems like a safer thing for their tummys to have. My sweet Sister actually found it for me when I was eating a dairy free diet when my littlest sweet pea was just born. And for the record, when I was on this dairy free diet, I used a margarine that was 100% canola oil from Trader Joes for these cookies, and they were just as fabulous!

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