Healthier Best Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe

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Ingredients

½ cup butter, softened
¼ cup sweet potato puree
½ cup white sugar
1 cup packed brown sugar
½ cup orange juice
4 egg whites
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons hot water
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts

Nutrition Info

249.4 calories
carbohydrate: 35.8 g
cholesterol: 10.2 mg
fat: 11.4 g
fiber: 1.6 g
protein: 3.7 g
saturatedFat: 5.2 g
servingSize: -
sodium: 95.5 mg
sugar: 21.5 g
transFat: : -
unsaturatedFat: : -

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

  2. Beat butter, sweet potato, white sugar, brown sugar, and orange juice with an electric mixer in a large bowl until smooth. Add eggs whites one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into butter mixture before adding the next. Beat in vanilla extract. Dissolve baking soda in hot water in a small bowl. Add to sweet potato batter. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, and walnuts. Roll dough into walnut-sized balls and place 2 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheets.

  3. Bake in preheated oven until edges are nicely browned, about 10 minutes.

Recipe Yield

4 dozen

Recipe Note

I love these cookies but I really wanted to try to make them a little lighter. I actually used sweet potato puree for some of the butter and juice squeezed from an orange for some of the sugar and they still taste great. It sounds a little odd but try it!!

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