Spelt Chocolate chips cookies are my newly found tasty treats, which both I and my daughter love to munch at any time of the day. These cookies are chewy and at the same time dense. Utterly delicious is the only way I can describe them.
I don’t have a great liking to chocolate, but my daughter is really the opposite, and is really a chocolate person. In order to woo her to do her potty we have to offer her a chocolate which is Dove’s milk chocolate. It started as potty training reward, now she wants to rewards herself for everything she does. According to my hubby it is okay.
I am also not a fan of store-bought chocolate chips cookie, always I found that they are not up to my taste. Recently I discovered a killer chocolate chips cookie recipe. It is adapted from my favorite King Arthur flour blogand also from Savorysweetlife.com. When I made it first time instead of baking it for exactly 12 minutes, I gave extra 2 minutes result in a crispy one. Then Second time I gave it 12 minutes and it turned out to be perfect.
I was reading about the goodness of spelt flour for a long time, and finally on my last Whole Food store visit I bought the spelt flour. I decided to make chocolate chips cookies with my favorite recipe.
Spelt is an ancient grain with deep nutty sweet flavor and is a cousin to wheat. It has a harder shell than wheat and was originally grown in Iran and then introduced in Europe and USA. Even though it contains gluten, the effects seem to be less harmful to people with Celiac disease. It is richer in protein, fiber, manganese, copper, zinc and has fewer calories. It doesn’t have bitterness of whole wheat and on the other hand is sweet and nutty. It has lot of health benefits like reducing total and LDL cholesterol levels, gall stone prevention, cardiovascular benefits of postmenopausal women for further read from here and here
I bought whole grain spelt flour, and it does look like wheat flour.
Whole wheat recipes can be substituted with spelt, however for making bread you need extra gluten as gluten in spelt is not enough make it rise. I haven’t tried it though, and it would be a project in the near future.
Somewhere I read that you need acquire the taste to enjoy spelt flour recipes. However, I found that there is no need for it, the very first time we loved the cookies. I have made two –three different recipes of cookies with Spelt flour. It has becomes my favorite grain for cookies, and I am going to trade in with this grain in all the recipes with All-purpose flour.
So next time, include this wonder grain flour on your grocery shopping list, and try it yourself. You are going to say I am not going back. Here goes my secret (not secret any more) delicious chocolate cookies recipe.
What you need
Recipe adapted from King Arthur flour blogand also from Savorysweetlife.com
Unsalted butter: ¼ cup (soften at room temperature
Vegetable shortening: ¼ cup (If don’t want to use you can substitute with butter. Butter alone can result too much spreading)
Brown sugar: ½ cup+ 1 tablespoon
Granulated sugar: ¼ cup
Egg: 1no
Vanilla Extract: 1 teaspoon
Sea salt: ⅓ teaspoon
Baking soda: ½ teaspoon
Baking powder: ¾ teaspoon
Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips: 1 cup
How I made
Preheat oven to 360 degrees Fahrenheit.
In a medium bowl mix spelt flour, baking soda, baking powder, sea salt finally mix in with chocolate chips.( If you don’t want to add chocolate chips with dry ingredients, you and fold in to the dough at the end).
In a bowl of kitchen-aid stand mixer cream butter, vegetable shortening along with both sugars until it is nice and fluffy approximately about 3 minutes.
Add egg and vanilla and beat for an additional 2 minutes.
Then gradually mix in the dry ingredients into the sugar-butter-egg mixture. The cookie batter should be somewhat thick. Drop about 1 tablespoons of dough or use a medium cookie scoop and plop the batter onto a baking sheet. Slightly flatten the dough with your hand. leave at least 2 inch between each cookie.
Bake for 12minutes until the edges are nice and golden brown. Remove from heat and allow the cookies to stay on the cookie sheet for an additional 2 minutes. Allow the cookies to cool on the cookie rack for at least 3 minutes before serving.
Enjoy!
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Yield: 24 no
Verdict: Delicious
Will you make it again; I am making more often.
I am linking this delicious cookies to Favorite recipes event: Cookies hosted here.
Also to Hearth and Soul blog hop hosted here.
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Genevieve says
Great recipe for classic chocolate chip cookies....I love using spelt, and I used all butter. They are crisp yet moist and will be a great lunchbox treat. I used milk chocolate chips just because that's what I had....I could have cut back on the sugar a bit due to that.
JishasKitchen says
thats one perfect looking cookie...loved it..:)
Navaneetham Krishnan says
I am not into chocs but these looks so good, maybe I will make and let my nephews enjoy them.
Jay says
Mmmm...my fav...looks awesome dear..:)
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radha says
These looks terrific. You must belong to the minority if you do not like chocolate!
chitraj.hegde says
the cookies really are killers...looking so so yummy and I too never tried Spelt flour for any baking it is new to me as well..need to try this out...good clicks..
R.Punitha says
Hi Swathi ,
looks GREAT !!!!
And rich :))))
Neat presentation ..
Keep on Dear...
Elisabeth says
Swathi-I love the potty training reward, with the Dove chocolate. Can't recall rewarding my children for potty training...even, my grandchildren. I think its a great thing to do; is to reward.
Your cookies are so perfect, and yummy with the healthy spelt flour...you, and Angie with the favorite SPELT recipes. I do love King Arthur flour, and know that they have such amazing recipes on their site...thanks for sharing these awesome cookies:D
Reeni says
Your spelt cookies are irresistible Swathi! I have my first bag of spelt flour unopened in my pantry. I don't know why I hesitate to use it. This gives me a little push to get going.
Angie's Recipes says
Absolutely love these chocolate cookies! They look wonderful.
Suja Manoj says
Perfectly baked yummy cookies..
Sayantani says
this looks wonderful. spelt is new to me but it looks as yummy as made with apf.
srividhya Ravikumar says
Healthy and tempting cookies...
Sharmilee! :) says
Nice recipe..looks so perfect, yummy looking cookies!
Lizzy says
Wow, these look like perfect chocolate chip cookies!!! We used to bribe our kids with M&M's for potty training 🙂
Shabbu says
yummy and perfect..
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Anu says
Looks so crisp and yummy..
Julie says
Very crunchy & delicious snack!!
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Shweta in the Kitchen says
Perfect, looks absolutely tempting
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Vineetha says
yummy cookies..liked the new look of ur blog 🙂
Srimathi says
I am so impressed with this recipe. I like that you used spelt in baking. I wonder if we can bake it egg free.
Swathi Iyer says
Yes you can make it eggless by adding maple syrup
PrathibhaSreejith says
Delicious and perfectly baked coois, awesome prep 🙂
kitchen queen says
perfect and crunchy chip cookies.
Padhu says
Looks so perfect and tempting
Balvinder Ubi says
The potty training reward is interesting, every new parent should do this.
I have never tried spelt flour but if it had been gluten free I would have.Chocolate chip cookies looks nice and crisp.
Barbara Bakes says
They look so yummy. How nice that they're healthier too.
Tina says
Lovely....
Sanoli Ghosh says
Excellent & delicious. This cookie is my favorite too. Perfectly made Swathi.
Priya says
Wat a prefectly baked cookies, looks absolutely stunning and incredible..
Nithya says
Delicious cookies 🙂 Looks so tempting to pick one from the picture 🙂
Prathibha says
nice n delicious cookies..looks perfect
Guru Uru says
Spelt flour obviously works wonders in cookies - how utterly gorgeous 🙂
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Niloufer Riyaz says
Mouthwatering Cookies! delicious
Rekha says
very neat step by step presentation.. looks so delicious..
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The cookies look awesome Swathi...I am a huge fan of Choc chip cookies
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj says
very crispy cookies!!
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Gayathri NG says
Woderful chocolate chip cookies, perfect n crispy...
PT says
perfectly demonstrated.. like the cookies..
Sha Jabi says
perfect cookies dear,i love ur blog,really great job
Vimitha Anand says
Crunchy and yummy cookies with the goodness of wheat..
spusht says
Yes, they do look perfect!
I used to bake eggless chocolate chip cookies quite often, but with maida ... haven't tried spelt flour.