Simple Chocolate Chip Cookies with Freshly Milled Flour

…simple joy by simpler living

Melt in your mouth delicious! These chocolate chip cookies are a guilt-free treat. Made with freshly milled grains; they not only satisfy sweet cravings but also your body’s nutrient cravings. With all the nutrients in freshly milled whole grains, these cookies can even count as a healthful part of your diet!

Why You Will Love Them

Simple

The recipe below is easy to follow and mix together. I keep all these ingredients on hand so theycan be whipped up in less than 10 minutes. It is also easy to double this recipe and bake for a crowd.

Delicious

These cookies are especially delicious! The natural sugar and freshly milled wheat give it richer flavor. The milk chocolate really sets it apart from other chocolate chip cookies. Because of the sweetness of the milk chocolate, this recipe calls for less sugar than other recipes.

Nutritious

Freshly milled grains contain many vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients like fiber. Fiber decreases insulin spikes, which are the main source of weight gain. So these are guilt-free in many ways! Delicious and nutritious! That’s a good combo. By using unprocessed ingredients like sucanat sugar, you not only get more flavor but it satisfies like only real nutrition can.

Equipment Needed

Not much is needed for basic cookies but I have a few things that make easier. I only cook if it is easy and also don’t like a lot of gadgets so the equipment I use here is reused in many recipes in my kitchen to keep it simple, quick and easy.

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Electric Mixer – For years I exclusively used a hand held mixer but now, since multitasking even more, I mostly use my stand mixer. Both are Kitchen Aid brand since I learned they have the best motors. In over 20 years of heavy use, neither motor has broken (unlike the many, many hand mixers that constantly broke in my home growing up)!

Rubber Spatula Scraper – A must for getting the last bits of dough out of the bowl.

Cookie Sheet – I switched to air insulated cookie sheets years ago and will never go back. These pans prevent the bottoms of the cookies from burning and lead to more evenly cooked cookies. They are far superior any other cookie sheet, even the heavy duty type.

Cookie Dough Scooper – This scooper is an extra, as a spoon and your finger or another spoon will do but it makes it easy, has less clean up, and makes evenly sized and shaped cookies. It is one of my secrets to being able to quickly whip up a batch of homemade cookies.

Spatula – I bought these “fish spatulas” a few years ago and they ended up being so good that I never use my old ones. They are a thin but sturdy metal that easily lifts food cleanly off the pan. These are some of my most useful kitchen tools.

Wire Cooling Racks – A must for cookies! These cool cookies evenly and are easy to store afterwards.

Ingredients

Flour – I used only freshly milled flour so it retains all of its nutritional benefits. Typically, I use spelt or soft white wheat for baked goods. Grains that you grind yourself are chock full of nutrients.

Replacing store bought flour with your own freshly ground grains changes it dramatically from a health detriment to a healing food. And if it is done right, it will taste immensely better too!

Soft white wheat does not require yeast to rise so it is used often in baked goods. This is what I primarily use. Spelt is a lighter, fluffier grain that gives an extra rise to baked goods. I like to add it to cookies to give it more of a rise. But you can use one or the other with great results too.

Baking Soda

Salt – I use “Real Salt” which is an unrefined ancient sea salt.

Butter – I use this butter. It is the best butter I have found in taste and quality. If not available, I buy a high quality butter from Azure Standard or a local store.

Natural Sugar – I only use unprocessed sugars for the natural nutrients it has. I also try to lessen them as much as possible yet still have food taste delish. My sugar of choice for cookies is sucanat. It has a rich taste with natural molassas which doesn’t spike insulin like processed sugars do. It cooks well in every baked good so I buy in bulk to always have it on hand. This is my favorite brand of sucanat!

Pure Vanilla Extract

Eggs

Milk chocolate chips or cut up chunks – These makes the cookies taste SO much better than the typical semi-sweet chips.