Heart-Healthy Chocolate Chippers

A healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe with nuts.

Mar 13, 2007

healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe, Gallagher

Although this recipe for chewy chocolate chip cookies isn't low fat, the fat you'll find in it is the heart-healthy omega 3 kind, from walnuts and ground flaxseed meal.

Big dark (60% cacao or great) chocolate chips make these chocolate chip cookies sweet. Tofu, whole wheat pastry flour, nuts and flaxseed meal make them healthy.

Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

1-1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
3/4 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
4 oz. dark chocolate chips, such as Ghirardelli 60% cacao
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
6 oz. lite silken tofu
1 egg
2/3 cup sugar
1/4 cup canola oil
3/4 cup ground flaxseed meal
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line cookie sheets with a silpat mat or parchment paper. Whisk flour, baking powder and salt together in a large bowl. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts. In a blender, combine tofu, egg, sugar, oil, flaxseed meal and vanilla until smooth. Pour into dry ingredients, mixing until combined. Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto prepared cookie sheets. bake 10-12 minutes until lightly browned.

Makes 30 cookies.

Per cookie: 119 calories 7 g fat (1 g saturated), 7 mg cholesterol, 13 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 3 g protein, 0% Vitamin A, 0% Vitamin C, 3% calcium, 4% iron