Kickas.org Forums Treatments, Drugs and Alternatives Diet-Specific Recipes Chocolate Chip Cookies -- Low Starch!!

This recipe is adapted from Kathleen Daeleman's Cooking Thin with Chef Kathleen. These are so yummy -- they taste like regular chocolate chip cookies -- only with a different texture.

4 large egg whites, at room temperature (I actually used 5 mediums, and they were still cold)
1/4 t. salt
1 t. pure vanilla extract
1/2 c. sugar
6 oz. mini choc. chips or regular chips that have been chopped in the food processor
1/2 c. chopped nuts (the recipe calls for pecans which are a bit starchy -- but I think you could sub walnuts or almonds just as well -- or omit the nuts altogether.)

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, beat egg whites on medium-low until frothy, about 2 minutes. Increase mixer speed to high, add salt, and whip to stiff but not dry peaks. Reduce speed to medium. Add vanilla and sugar, a few tablespoons at a time. Whip to glossy peaks, about 2 minutes. Gently fold in chocolate chips and nuts. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto cookie sheets lined with parchment (don't skip the parchment!!). Bake 45 minutes.

If you have more self-control than I do, turn off the oven and leave the cookies in the oven overnight without opening the oven door. This supposedly makes for a more meringue like cookie -- but they're even fantastic straight out of the oven when they're still a little warm!!

MmM sounds like a type of meringue cookie.. Now if I only had the patience to make them!!!

They're easy to make -- the patience is in the baking time, letting them cool, and letting them sit overnight (that will never happen at my house, though!! )

Paula

Hi Paula

Thanks for this recipe. Having just gone wheat free. this will suit me perectly.
For special occaisions, I make a flourless chocolate cake which is to die for.
Can't make these things too often though because I like them TOO MUCH.

I wonder if anyone has a recipe like these cookies only with something other than sugar for sweetening ?

Thanks again,
Maggie

Hey Maggie - thanks for drawing my attention to this January post. I have a choco cookie recipe that doesn't use wheat flour, but does use soya and rice flour (I think). Happy to share it and a wonderful gluten free choco cheesecake if you're interested. In return, could you please pass over that flourless choco cake? *yum*

Jeanna