Going ‘clean’ is a little bit like falling in love: the sun shines brighter, birds are singing to you, and food has never tasted so sweet. Seriously, food really has never tasted so sweet because all of the chemicals and additives were messing with your taste buds. I love a cookie now and then, so I was dismayed that all of my old cookie recipes tasted way too sweet. And don’t even get me started on processed baked goods. When I slipped for a processed, baked “treat”, I wanted to spit it out. What used to taste like a regular chocolate chip cookie was now mouth-puckering sweet.

I learned that I had to make some adjustments to my old recipes for my new clean eating diet.  This is my new go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Baked Choc Chip Cookies on Sheet1

You can also find this recipe and many other not-so-sweet cookie recipes in my cookbook, Homemade Snacks and Staples, which comes out on May 7th.

 

 

Recipe Review:

close up choc chip cookie1

The dough is more salty than sweet leaving the chocolate chips to bring the sugar to the table. For a clean palate, this cookie offers just the right amount of sweetness to satisfy your cravings without puckering your mouth.

This cookie can also easily be made vegan by substituting Earth Balance for butter and using non-dairy chocolate chips. I love vegan baking because the cookies are more moist and cake-like than traditional cookies. Also, I always seem to run out of eggs when baking so it’s out of convenience as well. I almost always have these ingredients on hand to it’s easy to stir up a batch of cookies without much forethought.

You can bake these up on two cookie sheets (and just one round of baking), because you can put them so close together.

Choc Chip Cookie Dough on Sheet1

Ingredients on hand-Check.

Quick mixing time- Check.

Easy baking: Check.

Okay, tell me again why you don’t want to try these?

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What is your favorite kind of cookie?