<![CDATA[Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe]]> http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/ sNews CMS <![CDATA[Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe]]> vegan chocolate chip cookies recipe that replaces the animal-based ingredients with other replacement ingredients that results in a good cookie. Considering that you can still use sugar and chocolate chips, these cookies are delicious and can be enjoyed by “meat eaters” as well as vegans.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients
1-1/4 cups of flour*
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup of non-dairy butter or margarine*
¾ cup of granulated white sugar
¾ cup of brown sugar, packed
2 eggs worth of egg replacer**
1 teaspoon of vanilla.
2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips***
1 cup of nuts like pecans or walnuts

*To make your vegan cookies even healthier, use organic flour.

**Egg Replacer is a powdered mix of vegetable starches. These starches replicate the effects of eggs in baked good. This mix can be found in health food stores.

***Look for a good quality chocolate that has no additives. The only ingredients should be cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar, lecithin, and vanilla. Lower quality chocolate may contain milk or milk fat.

Instructions
Preheat the over to 375.

1. Mix together the flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl.

2. In a mixer, beat the butter until light.

3. Add the sugars and vanilla and beat until nice and creamy.

4. One at a time mix in the egg replacers, beating after each one.

5. With the mixer on low, slowly add the dry ingredients and beat until a dough forms.

6. Stir in the chocolate chips and the nuts.

7. Drop large tablespoons of dough onto ungreased cookie sheets.

8. Bake them for 8 to 10 minutes or until the cookies are nice and golden brown.

9. After two minutes, remove from the cookie sheets and cool them on a wire rack.

Variations and Tips
There are other things that can be used to replace eggs in baked goods like cookies. You can use half of a banana per egg, tapioca starch combined with a little water, or just use 2 tablespoons of water per egg.

You can also replace the 1 cup of non-dairy butter with ¾ cups of canola oil and 2 tablespoons of vanilla soy milk.

Instead of real chocolate chips you can use carob chips or specially made vegan chips to ensure that there are no animal products in the chips you use.

Cookies made without animal products don’t melt down the same as those that contain shortening or butter, but that definitely does not affect the taste or the success of this vegan chocolate chip cookies recipe. Your non-vegan friends will be shocked to learn that these delicious cookies have no eggs or butter in them.

]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:53:16 +0000 http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/recipes/vegan-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/ http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/recipes/vegan-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/ <![CDATA[Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe]]> peanut butter chocolate chip cookies recipe.

This recipe is no more difficult than making regular chocolate chip cookies. In other words, these are simple cookies to make. There are a couple of pointers included that will ensure that your cookies come out soft and chewy, not like peanut butter and chocolate chip hockey pucks.

I think even Ruth Graves Wakefield who invented the chocolate chip cookie in 1937 would approve of this peanut butter chocolate chip cookies recipe.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients
1 cup of flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
1 cup of packed brown sugar
1 cup of crunchy peanut butter
½ cup of butter (1 stick)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 large egg
¼ cup of honey
6 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips (about half a package)

Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Sounds simple, but accurate oven temperature is one of the tricks to having chewy versus hard cookies. Many oven thermostats aren’t accurate. It may indicate that it has preheated to 350 but could be as much as 50 degrees higher or lower than that. The best way to know the exact oven temperature is to place a thermometer in the oven and then adjust the setting accordingly.

1. Combine the first three ingredients in a small bowl.

2. Mix the sugar and the rest of the ingredients (except the chocolate chips) in a blender until smooth and creamy.

3. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients with the mixer set to a low speed.

4. Stir the chocolate into the dough.

5. Cover the dough with plastic and chill for 30 to 40 minutes. This will make the dough not so sticky and easier to handle.

6. Roll the dough with your hands into 1-1/4 inch balls. If the size varies, cooking time should not be effected.

7. Bake cookies for 12 minutes. They may not look ready, but if your oven is truly at 350 degrees they are ready to be taken out of the oven even if they seem to be undercooked. Don’t be tempted to leave them in longer or you will end up with the hockey puck version discussed earlier.

8. Let them cool for at least 5 minutes before removing them to wire racks. After they are cooled they will seem less fragile and will no longer appear to be undercooked.

Variations and Tips
If you like big hunks of chocolate, you can chop chunks off of a big chocolate bar or break up small chocolate bars and use these instead of chips.

One great tip is that peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are great with ice cream, but that seems a little obvious. It’s also a good idea to pop cold cookies in the microwave for a few seconds to get back that warm gooey sensation.

]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:36:22 +0000 http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/recipes/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/ http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/recipes/peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/ <![CDATA[Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe]]> healthy chocolate chip cookies? Sure it is. Of course there is nothing like a genuine, moist chocolate chip cookie full of butter and gooey with dark chocolate chips, but a healthier version of this can definitely be attained. There are a number of recipes with different variations that will make several different style of cookie. Most of these healthy versions use whole-wheat flour or a combination of whole-wheat flour and rolled oats. To make them even healthier you can use artificial sugar blends instead of white and brown sugar. This recipe for healthy chocolate chip cookies is not only lower in fat and calories but tastes good, too. There is no point in eating a cookie if it doesn’t taste good.

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients

1 cup of whole-wheat flour
¾ cups rolled oats*
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup softened butter
¼ cup canola oil
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1/3-cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp chocolate chips
1 cup of chocolate chips**

*The oatmeal adds fiber and decreases the guilt factor.
**If you use dark chocolate chips the taste is richer and many brands make their chips larger. You can use less than a cup chips and still get plenty of chocolaty taste.

Instructions
Before beginning preheat the oven to 350 degrees and spray cooking spray onto cookie sheets.

1. Place the oats in a blender and grind till they are powdery. Pour this into a bowl.

2. Add the whole-wheat flour, salt, and baking soda to the bowl and stir.

3. Use your mixer to beat the butter till it becomes light and fluffy.

4. Add the canola oil, both sugars, the egg, and the vanilla to the butter and beat again till the mixture is creamy.

5. With the mixer set on a slow speed, gradually add the dry ingredients.

6. When the dough is soft and well mixed, stir in the chocolate chips.

7. Place heaping teaspoons of dough onto the cookie sheets.

8. Bake one sheet of cookies at a time. Since all ovens can vary, baking may take10 to 15 minutes. Watch for the edges to get brown.

9. Allow the cookies to cool

You know what to do next.

Variations and Tips
In a normal chocolate chip cookie recipe the amount of butter used is usually 1 cup with no canola oil. This recipe for healthy chocolate chip cookies cuts that in half and then replaces half of the butter with canola oil to make these cookies even healthier for your heart. You can also replace half of the butter with 1/4 cup of applesauce instead of canola oil. Either way, the cookies will be just as moist and still have some of that wonderful buttery taste.

If you want to cut down on the sugar, use the same amounts of artificial sugar like sucralose instead. You can get it in both white and brown sugar blends.

If you use both of these healthy variations, no one can say no to these healthy chocolate chip cookies on the grounds that cookies are bad for you.

]]> Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:31:07 +0000 http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/recipes/healthy-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/ http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/recipes/healthy-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe/ <![CDATA[Vanilla chocolate chip cookie recipe]]> vanilla chocolate chip cookie recipe is not really that special. It's an ordinary recipe with some vanilla extract. I mean, it's still damn goood! Since it was submitted to me by a friend from Europe the measurements are in grams, I'll try to convert them to cups when I have time.

Vanilla chocolate chip cookie recipe ingredients

Unsalted Butter – 225 g
Granulated sugar - 150 g
Brown sugar – 160 g
Eggs – 2
Vanilla extract – 1 ½ teaspoons
Flour – 295 g
Baking soda – 1 teaspoon
Salt – ½ teaspoon
Semisweet chocolate chips – 270 g

First you need to turn on the oven and preheat it to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Then take a medium sized bowl, put in the butter and cream it and add white and brown sugars. Then beat until it becomes light and fluffy.

Beat in the eggs one at a time and then add the vanilla extract. Now you have a nice wet mixture. Now for the dry ingredients.

Combine baking soda, flour and salt in another bowl and then add the content of the first bowl. Mix until smooth.

When you are half way through add chocolate chips.

Cover the bowl and put it in the fridge. In the meanwhile take some baking paper and cover your baking sheets with it so your cookies don't stick.

Take the vanilla chocolate chip cookie dught out of the fridge and drop around two tablespoons of dough at a time on to baking sheet. This will be one cookie.

Bake for around 12 – 14 minute until they become golden brown around edges. Then take them out of the oven and let them cool for a while.

And? Well eat them and wash them down with some milk! I used to bring vanilla chocolate chip cookies when I visited my aunt, she was a great cook, I really enjoyed her Cajun recipes, she made great home style chili and great Cajun style pot roast. By the way, did you know that you can also use chili together with chocolate, so you could also put it in cookies? Just don't overdo it!

]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:13:03 +0000 http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/recipes/vanilla-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe/ http://chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.com/recipes/vanilla-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe/ <![CDATA[Chocolate Chip Cookies]]> Chocolate chip cookies are one of the most popular cookies in the world! They are drop cookies that have chocolate chips in them and that separates them and makes them popular. They come from the United States to be more exact from Ruth Wakefield. She accidentally discovered the recipe when she run out of regular baker's chocolate. She decided to substitute it with broken pieces of semi-sweet chocolate. She thought that the broken chocolate would melt and that the end result would be the same. Obviously, the chocolate didn't melt and chocolate chip cookies were born. Well this is one version. The second version states that Mrs. Wakefield knew that the chocolate would not melt when once some Nestle bars of chocolate fell from the shelf into the cookie batter and were crumbled by the mixer.

Why two stories? Well the real reason for this is that one story comes from Nestle and other from Mrs. Wakefield and there was an argument between them about the chocolate chip cookie recipe. Did Mrs. Wakefield sell the recipe to Nestle or did she only let them print her recipe on the back of their cookie box? At the end the Nestle lawyers won and Nestle started making chocolate chip cookies.

Today they are by far the most popular cookies in the US. Half the cookies baked in American homes are chocolate chip. And of course there are many variations to the cookies. Most popular and known chocolate chip cookie brands are Blue Chip Cookies, Chips Ahoy!, Chips Deluxe, Famous Amos, Mrs. Fields, Otis Spunkmeyer, Pepperidge Farm, The Decadent and Toll House.

Most chocolate chip cookies are made out of the following ingredients: white sugar, brown sugar, flour, salt, eggs, baking powder, butter, vanilla extract, and semi-sweet chocolate pieces. Sure there are some other things that you can include in the recipe.

Some recipes produce softer, chewy style cookies and others produce a more crunchy chocolate chip cookies. And they all go great with a glass of milk or if you are a die hard chocolate lower even with a cup of hot chocolate :)! Just use this hot chocolate recipe and try it!
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