Sugar alert! Sugar alert!
This is not a Trim Healthy Mama recipe; but it is one that I grew up with, and I am convinced it is the best chocolate chip cookie. Ever. I made a batch this weekend to share with a friend. It was funny, because when I gave them to him, his wife asked if they were sugar free….everyone knows I’ve made the transition to sugar free! I told them they were full of sugar and gluten. He said he’d eat one or two… I knew their daughter would enjoy them, too!
There is just something about this cookie that transports me back to my childhood, and I’m sitting in my mom’s kitchen, in a yellow leather chair that swivels, eating one of these soft, super-delicious, warm cookies with a glass of milk. Or, in my pre Trim Healthy Mama days, I liked the cookie dough batter as much as I liked the cookies. Only, I liked the batter without the chocolate chips, so once the chips were added, I no longer wanted the batter….strange; but true! Anyone else out there who prefers the dough to the cookie? Well that was me. I can remember buying those rolls of cookie dough at the grocery, at one phase in my life, and just eating the dough. True confessions. I feel so much better without the sugar though. Really. Truly. And I will also add, that the more weight I lost, the healthier the food, my body seemed to crave. Enough of that, though. I know not everyone eats like me, and I do make food for friends and family that have sugar and gluten in them, and just thought I’d share one recipe today.
This is the recipe that my mother used to make chocolate chip cookies when I was growing up, and it is the recipe I use today for my friends that aren’t Trim Healthy Mama’s. This cookie is a winner. Every single time I make them, they are good, or I am told that they are good. Here is a link to the recipe from Nestle Toll House Cookies that I follow exactly as written.
And I feel that I must report:
I did not have one taste of the dough, or cookies, during the prep or making of the cookies! Yay! And my Kitchen-Aid mixer is one of the best kitchen investments ever! The Salesman bought it for me our second Christmas together. I use it often in regular baking and it has been the gift that keeps on giving. For Trim Healthy Mama recipes, I use the blender more than the mixer. Do you all have a Kitchen-Aid mixer?
Enjoy!