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Chocolate Chip Flying Saucers

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Chocolate Chip Flying SaucersKevin Hart

These flat, chewy, half whole-wheat cookies are for the chocolate chip purist: no nuts, no frills—pure bliss. They will fly out of the kitchen mysteriously. Use a 1-ounce (2-tablespoon-capacity) ice-cream scoop for easy measuring.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes about twenty 4-inch cookies

Ingredients

2

sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature

1

cup granulated sugar

1

cup (packed) dark brown sugar

2

large eggs

1

teaspoon vanilla extract

3

/4 teaspoon fine salt

1

/2 teaspoon baking soda

1

cup unbleached all-purpose flour

2

/3 cup white whole-wheat flour

1

cup semisweet chocolate chips

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Arrange the oven racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven and preheat to 375°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone sheets.

    Step 2

    In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugars, beating at medium-high speed until fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs, vanilla, salt and baking soda and beat at medium speed just until the eggs are incorporated, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the flours and mix at low speed just until blended, scraping down the bowl as necessary. Stir in the chocolate chips.

    Step 3

    Drop 6 heaping tablespoons of dough on each cookie sheet, spacing the tablespoons of dough evenly apart. Bake for 7 minutes, switch and rotate the pans and bake 5 to 7 minutes more, until the cookies are evenly golden. Let the cookies cool on the pans for a minute or two and then transfer with a spatula to racks to cool completely. Repeat with the remaining dough.

Nutrition Per Serving

Nutritional analysis per cookie: 243 calories
13g fat (8g saturated)
32g carbohydrates
1g fiber
3g protein
#### Nutritional analysis provided by Epicurious
Real Food For Healthy Kids reprinted with permission of William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.