Mmmmmm...Coooookkkies! Lily's favorite!

My Lily, I think, was doomed from the get go on the chocolate front.  I have always had a major sweet tooth.  I love chocolate candy, baked things or just straight chocolate chips from the bag.  A few of my favorite candies--the number one is totally dependent on my mood--are Skittles and brownies!  Jeremy also has a sweet tooth and will pretty much eat whatever is offered as long as it's sweet, but his absolute favorite is chocolate.  He loves chocolate the way a woman loves chocolate.  So, for Lily, I'm afraid it's been love from first bite.  When she was a baby just learning how to talk  she could identify a sweet yummy (that she had never seen before) as something yummy and to be wanted!

A couple of years ago my friend Heidi came up with this altered chocolate chip cookie recipe that is pretty much the only kind of cookie I make.  I always offer them first before telling people how good for you they are.  These are Lily's absolute favorite and she will generally choose to have these even over brownies!  She calls them "warm cookies" and jumps up and down excited when I ask her if she wants to help me make them.  They're so yummy and low in fat and sugar that I've even been known, in a pinch, to give her 2 or 3 for breakfast as we rush out the door.

“No-Guilt” Chocolate Chip Cookie

3 Lrg. Eggs                      1 cup Flax Meal

½ cup brown sugar           ½ cup white sugar
6 Tbs. butter (melted)         2 tsp. Vanilla
2 cups Whl. Wheat Flour    1 tsp. Baking  Soda
½ tsp. salt                       ¾ cup oatmeal (of any variety)
1-1   ¼ cups Mini-chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350F. Beat the eggs well. Add the sugars and vanilla and mix until sugar dissolves in eggs.  Add the melted butter (be sure it’s not too hot so it won’t cook your eggs), mix well.  Add flax meal and baking soda, mix well.  Mix in all other dry ingredients except Chocolate chips.  When well combined add chocolate.  Combine.  This is a more crumbly dough.  Spoon it in 2-3 Tbs. drops onto your cookie sheet.  This dough doesn’t melt like most so you can place them closer than usual.  Bake for 10 min. NOTE: if you don’t use a baking stone reduce cooking time to 6 min.