Not Your Mama's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cookies.

That's really all you need to say to get my attention.

They're hands down, my favorite food and they are in no way, shape or form good for you. Which is sad. I try not to keep them around because I know I'll go all Cookie Monster on them but I love to make them for other people. That happens to be why this post is in existence. I made a batch of Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip cookies and that got me thinking... "Can I make a healthier cookie?". Now I had to make them. The idea was in my head and it wasn't going to leave.

So, what is a healthier cookie? Well, I decided to follow the original Nestle recipe and just make swaps for the ingredients. Instead of butter I used coconut oil, eggs I used egg whites and so on and so forth. It was a lot of fun, and quite frankly my new cookies, which I'm calling Not Your Mama's Chocolate Chip Cookies, are DELICIOUS. The coconut oil adds a distinct flavor that I actually really like.

Original Nestle Tollhouse dough

NYM'sCCC dough

Not Your Mama's Chocolate Chip Cookies

2.25 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 cup coconut oil, softened

1/4 cup & 2 Tbsp Truvia Baking Blend

1/4 cup & 2 Tbsp Splenda Brown Sugar Blend

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 cup liquid egg whites

1 package Nestle Dark Chocolate Morsels

1. Pre-heat oven to 350F. 2.Combine first three ingredients and set aside. 3. Mix next four ingredients. 4. Add in egg whites 1/4 cup at a time. 5. Add in dry mixture a little at a time. 6. Stir in morsels. 7. Spoon on cookie sheet however much you want per cookie. I did 1 Tbsp and got 36 cookies. 8. Bake for 9 minutes. 

The major difference, aside from taste, was that the original recipe yielded 48 tablespoon size cookies while my recipe yielded 36. That is to be expected though as there was less substance in the ingredients. 

Nutrition Info Per Cookie:

Nestle: 114 cal, 6 grams fat, 3.75 grams sat fat, 10 grams of sugar

Mine: 133 cal, 9 grams fat, 7 grams sat fat, 6 grams of sugar

Had my recipe yielded 48 cookies it would've been 100 cal, 7 grams of fat, 5 grams sat fat and 5 grams of sugar. Frankly, I'm just happy that the sugar is lower as that is my main dietary downfall. 

Which is better? You be the judge!

Lauren