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Jo-Anne’s Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This recipe uses half the sugar and butter that most chocolate chip cookie recipes use and are just as delicious.

Chocolate Chip Cookie

Jo-Anne's Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies
 
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Ingredients
  • 2¼ Cups Jovial's Einkorn Flour
  • 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 Teaspoon Himalayan or Celtic Salt
  • ½ Cup (1 stick) Softened Butter
  • ½ Cup Demerera Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 2 Large Eggs
  • 1 to 2 Cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
  • OPTIONAL: 1 cup chopped nuts
Instructions
  1. Remove butter from refrigerator to soften. (You may want to take this out about an hour or so before you intend to make these.)
  2. Pre-heat oven to 375° F.
  3. In small bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
  4. In mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar.
  5. Mix in vanilla.
  6. Mix in 1 egg at a time.
  7. Mix in flour mixture.
  8. Mix in chocolate chips.
  9. Drop onto ungreased cookie sheet using #1 ice cream scoop (1 ounce) or spoon.
  10. Bake at 375° F for 10 to 11 minutes or until cooked.
  11. Leave on cookie sheet for 2 minutes.
  12. Transfer to cooling rack.

The reason this recipe uses 1/2 the butter as most chocolate chip cookie recipes is because less oil is necessary when using Jovial’s Einkorn Flour.

If you make your first purchase at Tropical Traditions using my affiliate link, you’ll receive a coconut book for free and I’ll receive a small discount coupon. Click the flour picture below to go to Tropical Traditions:

Milk Kefir Bread – A Healthier Bread

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If you’re anything like me, you like to occasionally enjoy a nice slice of homemade bread, a cookie, or perhaps a cupcake–especially around the holidays. When I eat something that might not be the healthiest, I try to prepare it with real, wholesome ingredients thereby making it as healthy as possible.

Is Your Flour Made from a Mutant Wheat?

If you’ve read my article, Are You Still Eating Wheat? you probably already know why this bread is healthier than other breads. Not only does it contain einkorn flour (that isn’t a mutant wheat), it has milk kefir (or yogurt), a fermented milk, which acts as a preservative. This bread will stay fresh for longer than loaves made with just water or milk.

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I Only Use Einkorn Wheat

Einkorn, is our oldest wheat and the only one left that has not been hybridized. Today, most wheat is sprayed with glyphosate before harvest. The wheat flour I’ve listed in my recipe from Amazon is tested for and does not contain glyphosate. It has a lower gliadin to glutenin ratio than modern wheat and can be tolerated by some who have gluten intolerance.

CAUTION: DO NOT eat this wheat or wheat bread, if a doctor has instructed you to avoid wheat or gluten!

Did I mention that I LOVE my Westbend bread machine from the 1990’s? If I didn’t have my vintage bread maker, I’d save up for this one:

Zojirushi BB-PDC20BA Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker, 2 lb. loaf of bread, Stainless Steel/Black

 

If you love rye, check out my article, Is it True This Can Reverse Diabetes? and recipe for Rye Bread.