| Before we modified our diet, when I baked chocolate chip cookies
to a golden brown Gary complained that they were burnt.
And when he
did the baking, they
were more like slightly warmed-up dough. The nice thing about
using Fruit Sweet
instead of sugar is you can bake the cookies to
a golden brown and they're
still moist and chewy.
There’s a wonderful
recipe book full of sugar-free desserts,
Sweet & Natural Baking by Mani Niall. This recipe is
basically his Chocolate Chip and Pecan Cookies
recipe with the slightest of tweaks.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a medium bowl with
an electric hand-held mixer, cream together:
6 Tbsp Earth Balance Natural Buttery sticks
1 cup Wax Orchards
Fruit Sweet
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
1 tsp almond extract
3. Stir in until well
blended:
1¾ cups plus 2 Tbsp whole wheat pastry flour
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
4. Stir in:
1 cup grain-sweetened chocolate chips
1 cup
pecans or walnuts, coarsely chopped
5.
Drop by heaping tablespoon onto cookie sheets.
6. Place in oven and set
timer for 7 minutes. When timer goes off, switch racks and bake an additional 7 minutes
(do not over-bake).*
7. Let cool slightly on
cookie sheets and then place on waxed paper to cool completely. Store in airtight
container. Makes 18 large cookies.
*NOTE: When
baking cookies, I have always switched racks and turned cookie sheets
around for even baking … but Mani Niall’s recipe is the only
one I’ve ever seen with
these instructions
actually included. We keep our cookies stored
in the freezer and try to limit
to one a day.
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