Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
These chocolate chip cookies are perfect for your sweet cravings!
Far be it from me to try and ruin anybody’s eating plan. But every once in a while, it’s nice to splurge and know you haven’t destroyed your plan completely. Am I right? I mean, if you can splurge and still call it “clean”, isn’t that better than drowning yourself in a bunch of “unclean” foods?
So I got a little creative. You see, my favorite cookie in the whole wide world is a chocolate chip cookie. What’s not to love? All that melty chocolaty goodness right out of the oven with a tall glass of milk… oh boy. I’m drooling. Pardon me while I go get a napkin.
There. All better.
Now, I have to tell you that I’m particularly proud of these cookies. Why? I wasn’t sure they were going to work when I first put them in the oven. I started with the recipe I used for Clean Eating Cookie Dough a while back. It was never meant to be baked. But with a couple minor adjustments, it did just fine!
Note: You will probably want to double this recipe due to the small yield. However, if you are just baking for yourself and maybe one other person, the yield should be just fine.
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CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES RECIPE:
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- ⅔ cup almonds
- ⅓ cup cooked oatmeal (cooked and fully cooled)
- 3 tbsp. honey
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
- ⅛ cup whole wheat pastry flour
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips (I use Lilly's or EnjoyLife)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Mix everything except the chocolate chips in a food processor. You should have a nice wet, sticky dough when you're done.
- Using your spatula, scrape dough into your mixing bowl and mix in chocolate chips.
- Spoon onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
Cyndi – No.
Amanda – Yes.
Dara – I use NutritionData.com for figuring data.
Score one for the gluten free world. Made these clean & gluten free :O) Used Bob’s Red Mill GF oats….. almonds no salt…. and ground flax seed instead of wheat flour. Also double batch in a 9 x 13 pan. YAY!
Christine – Fantastic!! Glad it worked out!
Kmdc – No, I’m sorry. I’ve heard of something called Sun Butter that people rave about. But I have no idea if that would work for you or not. Wish I could be more help.
Rj – I could be wrong, but I think somebody here tried it with all flour. They subbed more flour in place of the nuts and it turned out pretty good. Again, not positive, but worth a shot!
Kat – I would start off with 1/3 cup flour and add more as needed. Remember, the dough should be sticky.
Josh – It will depend on how many you make from one batch of dough.
Tried this recipe with some modifications.. we are gluten free so I used ground flax in place of the whole wheat flour and my kids dont like nuts in things ( will eat half a bag of them by themselves, go figure) so I added a scoop of Raw almond butter.. These were awsome.. thank you so much.. always looking for “healty” treats.. found you on FB and have been in love ever since.
Thanks so much! I’m glad everyone enjoyed them!
Guest – Yes. There is some debate over whether agave is clean, but yes, you can substitute in equal amounts.
Oh dear!
I wouldn’t.
I would love to try these cookies but I am having trouble finding the SunSpire choc. chips. I was told they have been discontinued. I cannot order them off Amazon or the SunSpire website and the Whole Foods store doesn’t have them. Is there another brand that I could use that would be easier to find?
Laura – There is another brand I use but I purchase it in the bulk section. I’ll try to call the store and find out what brand it is. SunSpire should be able to tell you where else they sell in your area though, even if you can’t buy through them.
THESE WERE SO YUMMY!! I also added a 1/2 T of cocoa powder to amp up the chocolate so they were like chocolate, chocolate chip cookies. SO GOOD! Thank you for allowing me to eat desserts (that are a million times better than any of the processed junk I was eating before)!
Glad you enjoyed them!
These look great! I did not wait for my oatmeal to cool though and the chocolate chips melted in the dough. 🙁
Oh dear. Well, hopefully they were still tasty!
Ya, probably the best thing to do. Enjoy!
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed them!
Wow these are FAB! Admittedly I cannot stop myself from eating a whole batch in one go but hey, they are clean after all 🙂
Haha!!! That’s what I always tell myself too. 🙂
Glad you enjoyed them! Yes, it could have been the flour. But these don’t spread a lot anyway. Probably best to shape them slightly prior to baking.
I used chocolate whey instead on the flour and they turned out great
Awesome!