Ok, I'm trying something new here. Lately, I've been making my favorite recipes by replacing the all purpose flour with whole wheat pastry flour. A few weeks ago, I made chocolate chip blondies (yum!) using only whole wheat and I was seriously amazed. I could not tell the difference AT ALL! Even the BF who hates my healthy replacements had to admit (hah!) that he could not tell a difference. I really wanted to blog about those blondies but unfortunately I ate them all before I could. Oof. This time, I had some restraint and photographed these lovely whole wheat peanut butter chocolate chip cookies before I could eat them all. Not that they weren't worthy of being eaten in one day. These cookies were amazing! So so good and again -- I could not tell the difference between these and the original recipe that used all white flour.So now I've decided to do a test -- I will try to remake some of my favorite all-purpose flour recipes (I'm thinking chocolate chip cookies, brownies, pie crusts) by replacing some (or all) of the all purpose flour with whole wheat. And...I'll take requests for recipes too! I'll be your guinea pig. So send me a recipe that you are curious about and I'll take the whole wheat test and report the results. In the meantime, make these cookies!
Whole Wheat Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease or line 2 cookie sheets.
2. Whisk together:
3/4 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 whole wheat (pastry) flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3. Beat in a large bowl until well blended:
1/3 cup (5 1⁄3 tablespoons) unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
4. Beat in:
1 large egg
1 cup peanut butter (smooth or chunky)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips
5. Stir in the flour mixture until blended. Shape into 1-inch balls and arrange about 2 inches apart on the cookie sheets. Press in some extra chocolate chips on top. Bake 1 sheet at a time, about 8 to 10 minutes. Let stand briefly, then remove to a rack to cool.
I like this recipe! I have all the ingredients...maybe I will try it next week :)
ReplyDeleteTruly I want to know about these blondies you made.
ReplyDeleteMost of the time, I end up using half apf and half ww flour, just because... I always have ww flour available and not always apf... And it turns out pretty nicely :)
ReplyDeleteNot a big fan of PB but these look tasty with all those Chocolate Chips.... yum!
ReplyDeleteNot a big fan of PB either, but it's impossible that these cookies taste anything but great. They look sooo yummy.
ReplyDeleteDo you use the same about of wet ingredients / water / milk when using whole wheat flour instead of AP? I read that WW absorbs more moisture, so usually you need to add more water when using WW instead of AP. But that's just for bread, so I'm not sure if it also applies to other recipes.