Chewy Cookie Tips

It's Friday again, so how about something fun?

Like several of my favorite chewy cookie tips?

Hold onto your socks because here they come...

For chewy cookies, try any of these tips:

• Remove the cookies a few minutes before they are done, while their centers are still soft and not quite cooked through. The edges should be slightly golden but the middle will still look slightly raw.
  
  
• Substitute 1 to 3 tablespoons of liquid sweetener (such as honey, corn syrup or molasses) for an equal measure of sugar. Too much, however, will alter the liquid balance in the recipe.
  
  
• Use egg yolks instead of whole eggs, this will add some extra moistness to the cookies thus helping to be a bit more on the chewy side.
  
  
• Reduce the baking soda or baking powder slightly. Leaveners give cookies a more cakey texture.
  
  
• Reduce the leavening for a lower, flatter cookie that's chewier.

The weekend's almost here. Why not put aside a little time to bake some healthy, chewy cookies?

Oh, you need a recipe for something healthy and chewy.

Okay, no problemo.

Keep reading...

Chewy Carrot Bars Recipe

3 lg eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup pureed carrots
1 tsp vanilla
2 cup all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking soda
3/4 cup honey
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup walnuts

Place eggs, honey, oil, carrots and vanilla in a mixer bowl and mix at medium speed until creamy. Stir flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, raisins and nuts together to blend well, and add to creamy mixture. Mix at medium speed until creamy again. Spread batter evenly in an 11" by 15" jelly roll pan that has been sprayed with pan spray or greased with butter. Bake at 350 F degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or until bars are firm in the center. Remove to a wire rack and cool to room temperature. Cut four by seven.

There, now you have no excuse not to make some delicious, healthy, chewy cookies.

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Chet Day
Editor, The Natural Health Circus
http://chetday.com