Low Carb Chocolate Chip Cookies!

My "My Great Recipes" Collection

That's right!  There is such a thing as low carb Chocolate Chip Cookies and Peanut Butter Cookies and I'm sure I could find numerous other ones, but I decided this last weekend to make Chocolate Chip Cookies with almond flour.  What came out was something like biscotti or even a breakfast bar, good for dipping.   Though I only made twelve of these cookies, you really could only eat one, they were so filling.

There are a few things I've learned from my kids regarding treats.  There is a certain expectation, depending on who you are as to what a chocolate chip cookie should taste like.   My twelve year old son is at that point where he doesn't care and he ate two cookies and about a half a gallon of milk before roaring at me that he was still hungry. My nine year old daughter, politely informed me that she had tried one of my chocolate chip cookies and though she ate it all, she would not recommend I make more.

Anyway, I love chocolate chip cookies, I grew up making them; made tons of different kinds. Growing up on a farm, I started out in the kitchen early and baking was a major part of my chores.  Yes, chores.  It was not unusual for me to wake up on a Saturday morning and my mother would rattle off all the things we had to make.  Maybe a pie, cookies, a cake for a church event, biscuits, if a special occasion even kolaches (a Czech danish).  Food and preparing food was such a part of my life that I collected recipes and was a member to a recipe club called "My Great Recipes"

I would wait for those recipe cards to come in the mail, I think I would get either 10 or 12 at a time, twice a month.  I still have those recipes.  There are about 15 different types of chocolate chip cookies, in that collection and none of them are low carb.  The recipe I chose to try comes from www.thewannabechef.net.  I believe they are not the authors either, so I actually don't know who to properly attribute with the recipe; I put my own twist on it making it low sugar as well.


Here were my ingredients:
1 1/2 cups almond flour  36 carbs : 18 Fiber
1/4  cup coconut oil:  0 : 0
 4 1/2 tsps of Truvia sweetener: 18 : 0
1 egg:  1 :  0
1/4 tsp salt: 0 : 0
1/2 tsp vanilla extract: 0 : 0
1/4 tsp baking soda: 0 : 0
1/4 cup chocolate chips 40 : 4
I need to find sugar free chocolate chips :-(

Total Carbometer: 95 carbs : 22 Fiber
or 7.9 carbs : 1.8 fiber per cookie

Compare to a Carbometer with bleached white
flour: 201 carbs : 8 fiber/ 12 cookies = 16.75 : .6  per cookie.

I would eventually like to try this with unsweetened chocolate chips or replace with peanut butter chips or mix'em.

Anyway, remember - biscotti...not your traditional chocolate chip cookie.

Tuesday progress report.  I still have 14 lbs. to go.  I have to increase the excercise, I've got to find the time to hike.  Just checked the weather forecast...rain showers for the next three days.  My hiking, may be on a machine.  But, I'm not complaining, we need the rain.

Have a Happy Carb Counting Day!