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Bromate Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookie



The two pound bag of King Arthur Flour 100% organic whole wheat flour (wheat germ and bran, never bleached and never bromated - it's written  on the package, I never made this up I swear) had been staring at me from the corner of my topmost pantry eversince my husband bought it for reason I am not aware of.

Being a purveyor of saving, I hunted the net for a cookie recipe so that I can use the wheat flour and prevent it from ending in the landfill.  It's in allrecipe.com and the link  if you are interested  : http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/whole-wheat-chocolate-chip-cookies/Detail.aspx .

I decided to do it after lunch, that was when my husband was ensconced in his favorite chair ready to turn into a football coach potato yelling at the top of his lungs and occasionally cursing like a drunken sailor whenever his team team was winning or losing. Regretfully, St. Louis Rams lost despite the unsolicited coaching of my husband from his green leather chair.

My lower back pain and 2 tablets of pain killer must have played a trick on me, I melted the butter (did not used margarine as stated in the recipe) instead of softening it ; used 1/2 cup instead of  3/4 cup of it , hence my batter was as stiff as  my arthritic lumbar region; freezer paper instead of parchment paper; over baked one batch and realized that I had not bought the cooling rack for my baking adventures.  

Despite these blunders which rarely I commit (they say baking is an exact science) when I am baking, the whole wheat cookie turned out good, according to my number one fan, the Cookie monster of University city, my husband. Besides its healthier than regular flour cookie, chewy and do not have that bitter after taste of cookies made from regular white all purpose flour. 

 Sometimes I suspect that my husband loves me a lot that he would always bombard me with praises on my baking, I am pretty sure even if I bake a mud with Ghirardeli chocolate chips morsels on it, he would still eat it. I am kidding on the last sentence, he probably would not eat the mud but chocolate chips will still have a chance.

  
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