Everyone loves a choc chip cookie. Tragically, the supermarket ones are super loaded with fat and sugar (which is why they’re yummy) so it’s hard to justifiably eat many…..not so with these little darlings.
If you want a biscuit with absolutely no fat or sugar, eat some cardboard, or better still, an apple, but if you want a healthy version of this yummy treat, look no further.
These are low GI, high fibre, a little dried fruit and a little dark chocolate.
As we all know, dark chocolate is an antioxidant and helps to release happy hormones. So, use a little in the biscuits for your kids and eat the rest of the block for an afternoon buzz.
Or just cut to the chase and eat these with a glass of wine.
I often find ‘healthy’ treats taste like horse food and leave me wishing I’d just reached for the damn Tim Tam in the first place…..alas, no so with these.
These actually hit the biscuit spot. The trick is half/half wholemeal and plain flour.
Not too chaffy!
If you don’t have self-raising, remember it’s just 2 teaspoon baking powder to 1 cup flour.
If you think you don’t have time for this, trust me, you do. 5 minutes mixing, 10 minutes resting (cup of tea???) and 15 minutes in the oven. Badda boom, you got yo’self some healthy choc chip biscuits.
Yeild – 18 biscuits
You will need -
- 1/2 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
- 1/2 cup plain SR flour
- 1/3 cup shredded coconut (use desiccated if it’s what you have)
- 1/2 cup rice bran oil
- 1/3 cup honey
- finely grated rind of half an orange
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 1/3 cup chopped dried apricots
- 50g (half a block) Lindt 70% Dark Chocolate
Yum! So I just made these but didn’t have apricots so used sultanas and dried apple. Also didn’t have wholemeal flour so used white and threw in some LSA to healthy it up. My Lindt is 85%, not 70% and my oil was plain old vegetable. So really only semi the same as yours but they turned out delicious!
In case anyone was wondering they can also be made while a toddler screams “Hurry, Mummy, hurry!” since you told her there would soon be cookies and a 4 month old sleeps in the bjorn on your chest.
xx Helen
Perfect, I love a bit of cowboy recipe following!! Keeping the basic principles and make it fit your pantry, that’s the only way to fly…. hope Alice gets chocolate all over her face (you too, Mama!).
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love following your recipes… you are an amazing woman! xx
What an awesome comment…you just made my day!
You must really love choc chip cookies
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Ha, you’ve made all these baker’s dreams come true! LOVE!