Don’t you just crave a snack when you are stressed? While it feels good to gobble that cookie up, you can’t help but feel guilty about the calories you gained afterwards. Fortunately, with our healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe, you now have a way to cure your food cravings while ensuring you still feel good after a snack. Read on to learn how to make this guilt-free dessert idea for the whole family.
Before you get started with your nutritious homemade cookies, prepare the following ingredients in advance:
Everything begins with the cookie dough! In a large bowl, place your softened butter and sugar and beat them with an electric mixer. Subsequently, add the egg and vanilla extract, and then the dry ingredients – baking soda, salt, and flour. Lastly, fold in around 1/4 cup of chocolate chips and voila! Your cookie dough is formed.
Subsequently, place your cookie dough in the freezer to chill for 20 minutes. Don’t neglect this crucial step to prevent your cookies from spreading.
Now, it is time to begin baking your chocolate chip cookies. Scoop the dough with an ice cream scoop – we recommend using an ice cream scoop to portion the cookie dough balls to ensure each cookie is perfectly round and the same size – before rolling the dough into balls and placing them on prepared baking sheets three inches apart (when the cookies bake, they expand and spread). Plan for six per sheet.
Bake the cookies for approximately ten minutes before removing them from the oven. Don’t worry if they appear underbaked, puffy, and light in colour. The dough will settle during cooling.
As the dough is cooling, strategically sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips onto the cookies while they are still hot.
Continue letting your chocolate chip cookies cool on the baking sheet for around 15 minutes before transferring them onto a cooling rack to cool some more. As the cookies cool, you will begin noticing delicious grooves covering the chocolate chips.
As you are preparing this delicious, guilt-free chocolate chip cookie recipe, keep the following tips in mind to achieve the best results.
Always ensure your baking sheets are cold before you begin baking your cookies. If you plan on reusing your baking sheets, remember to cool them off first. Sticking them in the fridge for around five minutes should suffice.
We cannot emphasise how essential it is to stick to the measurements listed in this chocolate chip cookie recipe. Spoon the flour into a proper measuring cup and level with a butter knife to ensure accurate measurement.
Creaming softened butter and sugar together incorporates air into the dough, causing the cookies to rise, puff up, and become lighter as they bake. To soften butter, just leave it at room temperature for three to four hours. Alternatively, you can cut the butter into cubes and let them warm up to speed up the softening process.
Avoid overmixing the cookie dough, as it will cause the cookies to become more prone to falling apart.
Don’t neglect the crucial step of chilling your cookie dough. Since this chocolate chip cookie recipe contains butter and sugar, the dough must be firmed up before baking. If not, the cookies will spread like wildfire during the baking process.
The last thing you want is for your cookies to be dry and rock-hard. To prevent that from happening, always remove your cookies from the oven before they start browning and allow them to finish settling during the cooling-off period. That’s the golden cookie-baking rule!
Voila! The ideal chocolate chip cookie recipe for your guilt-free snacking. If you love cookies as much as we do, you are sure to love this recipe. If you are excited to get started on your baking, our retail flour products are available at all major supermarkets, hypermarkets, and ingredient shops islandwide. Get in touch with us for enquiries!
