Snack

These chocolate chip cookies are like the kind you buy at the bakery: rich, moist, with that just-baked taste you can?t get in store bought cookies. They are a bit of an indulgence, however, since they are rich in sugar-containing chocolate chips. Try to use the darkest chocolate chips you can find to reduce sugar exposure. Using Hershey?s Special Dark chocolate chips, each cookie will contain around 5 grams carbohydrate per cookie, which can add up after a couple or three cookies. By using the darkest chocolate chips you can find (or by making your own dark chocolate chunks by melting 85% or greater cocoa dark chocolate, melting and breaking into chunks), you can reduce carbohydrate exposure to around 2-3 grams per cookie. For ultra low-carb chocolate chunks, use 100% cocoa, some butter, coconut oil, or cocoa butter, and a non-aqueous sweetener like Truvia, melted in a double-boiler setup. I?ll bet that these cookies will even pass the taste test of an 8-year old!