Goal #72 Try 100 new recipes (33-34/100): "Healthy" Chocolate Chip Cookies

Last night I had a hankering for cookies. But I have been reading this book called "Deep Nutrition," which declares sugar and vegetable oils to be toxins. So even though I wanted to cave to my sweet tooth, I also wanted to adapt it to be less bad for my body.

Here are my two experiments:

Normal Chocolate Chip Cookies with Splenda and whole wheat flour

The normal recipe is here. I substituted half of the white sugar to be Splenda. So it still had a lot of normal sugar in it, but I had never cooked with Splenda before, so I didn't want to substitute too much and have gross cookies. I also used 1 c whole wheat flour, only 1/4 c refined white flour, and 1/4 c oat flour (leftover from the recipe below).

They tasted pretty good. The cookie dough was good for snacking, and they're close enough to the real thing to feel satisfied. I give them 4/5 stars.

Vegan-ish Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe found here. I'm the one that gave the designation vegan-ish, since it's self-proclaimed "Best EVER Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies" is completely inaccurate. It uses an egg (not vegan), but my eggs are cage free, so I think some vegans would be fine with that. (I'm not an expert, I just watched a documentary). It uses melted coconut oil instead of butter, which seems vegan to me. They said it was because coconut oil is a healthier fat. According to "Deep Nutrition," butter is also a healthy fat, as long as it comes from grass-fed cows (mine doesn't). And it uses oat flour instead of wheat four. Though gluten is no problem for me, I followed the recipe exactly.

Well, until it came to baking them. Apparently the "stick them in the fridge for 15-30 more minutes before you bake them" advice was for a reason. And apparently it's good to set a timer when you have things in the oven. Oops.

On left: following baking instructions. On right: NOT following instructions.

Either way, following directions did not make them delicious. They were weird. Oily. Coconutty. The cookie dough was definitely not good for snacking. The cookies themselves made me think it's better to just eat an apple than one of these. 0.5/5 stars. Ugh.