COOKIES.

This was originally posted on the Fatlip Apparel lifestyle blog, so 100 awesome points to you if you've already seen it. 

I love cookies. Like, I fucking love cookies. But I also enjoy not being morbidly obese and dying of diabetes, so I invented what I consider the perfect cookie; gooey, sweet, overloaded with chocolate chips, but without the extra processed sugar, butter and refined white flour.

INGREDIENTS.

•  2 cups spelt flour (I've used both wholemeal and white, and both are fine. Wholemeal makes a slightly denser cookie, while white gives these cookies a more chewy texture.)
• 1/4 cups of unrefined coconut oil. Melt it first in the microwave, then measure it out.
• 1/2 cup of Natvia brand stevia (but my sweet tooth is off the hook, so you might wanna tone it down a bit if you're so inclined)
• 1 egg, room temp
• 1/4 tsp pink Himalayan salt
• 1 or 2 tsp vanilla extract (use the good shit with the vanilla pods in it, TRUST ME)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• A whoooooooole fuck load of chocolate chips. My cookie to chocolate chip ratio is like, 10% dough, 90% chocolate. NOTE: This is the "unhealthy" part of the recipe, because I use Cadbury dark chocolate baking chips, which are obviously full of refined sugar. I am, however, planning on replacing these with sugar-free alternatives. Use what you like. I ain't judgin',

METHOD.

I highly recommend using a food processor, especially if you're using white spelt flour because I find it pretty hard to mix properly by hand (the dough gets real gluey and weird, and it's especially hard if you've got feeble little girl arms like I do). A food processor or a really good blender will mix everything together perfectly!

• Preheat oven to 170c.
• Add the melted coconut oil, stevia, egg, vanilla extract and salt to the bowl of your food processor and blend until combined.
• Add flour and baking powder one cup at a time, and process until a nice dough forms. Transfer your dough to a mixing bowl and mix in your chocolate chips (I use my hands to get it all mixed in).
• Line a baking tray with baking paper, and roll cookie dough into balls. You should get a minimum of 12 cookies outta this, depending on how big or small you make em. 
• Bake in the oven for 8 - 9 minutes. When you take the cookies out, they'll be ridiculously gooey. So gooey you'll probably be like, what the fuck is this madness??!! But this is good!
• Leave them to cool for about 10 minutes. They'll start to firm slightly on the outside, but the inside will still be deliciously melty mess.

Anyway, this is usually the part where normal food bloggers make a joke like, "these are so delicious you'll want to eat the whole batch (AND SOMETIMES I DO LOL) but yeah, literally I inhale like 5 of these in a row, so.. Enjoy that.

^^ This image evokes tears of joys.

x A