Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies

• servings: 12 servings
• active time: 12 minutes
• total time: 57 minutes

Ingredients

1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened at room temperature and packed)

1/2 cup cane or coconut sugar

1 large egg

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 1/4 cups whole wheat or spelt flour

1/3 cup dark chocolate chips (divided)

Directions

In a large bowl, add butter and sugar; beat with a mixer until creamy.

Add egg and vanilla extract, beat until combined. Add baking soda, salt and flour; beat until cookie dough is formed. Add 1/4 cup chocolate chips and stir with spatula.

Place cookie dough in the freezer to chill for 20 minutes. In the meanwhile, preheat oven to 350 degrees F and line 2 cookie sheets with unbleached parchment paper or silicone baking mats.

Scoop dough with a regular scoop, roll into balls and place on prepared baking sheets 3 inches apart. Cookies spread.

Bake for 10 minutes and remove while cookies appear underbaked, puffy and light in color. Strategically place remaining 2 tablespoons of chocolate chips into cookies while they are still hot.

Let cookies cool on a baking sheet for 15 minutes before transferring onto a cooling rack to cool more. As cookies cool, you will see delicious grooves covering chocolate chips like a blanket appearing.

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 cookie
• Calories: 166 kcal
• Total Fat: 10 g
• Saturated Fat: 6 g
• Cholesterol: 36 mg
• Sodium: 127 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 18 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2 g
• Total Sugars: 6 g
• Protein: 3 g