These cookies. THESE COOKIES are the death of me!
Here I am writing to you from my 8 years seriously delayed ‘honeymoon’ and I haven’t been able to relax in my beach front apartment from excitement to share these with you. NOW. Sorry husband. These cookies took 4 trials. FOUR. Before getting them right. I wanted Greek yogurt in my cookies. I wanted healthier cookies. I wanted to transform that Nutella Stuffed Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Cookie into miniatures that would fit our diets without stretching our pants. For the life of me, the first three tries were like…ugh.
Note: Do not use butter in Greek yogurt cookies. Like, ever. Do yourselves a favour and follow the recipe exactly how I’ve written it. Trust. Me. Keep reading to find out why.
The first batch: I thought, “Heyyyyyy, Karina. SIMPLE! Just halve the butter and replace the other half with NON FAT GREEK YOGURT. It’s not HARD!” Ohhhhhh, but how wrong was I. Mixing the butter through the yogurt was enough to stop any normal person. It just appeared ‘off’. But, being a ‘special kind of persistent,’ I kept going. The result? Dry, cake-like texture without any chewiness or moisture. Without any of the ‘cookie’ quality I love so much. The second batch: ¼ of the butter; more non fat Greek yogurt; more flour = more disaster. Give up on the non fat Greek yogurt. The next batch will be better. Ahem The third batch: Scrap the butter (finally), use oil: ½ olive oil; ½ FULL FAT Greek yogurt; less flour = flat, pancake-like cookies. Not good enough.
The fourth batch: JACKPOT! DING DING DING! Coconut oil! (I may have smacked myself in the head when I saw the jar practically staring at me in the face.) So…½ coconut oil; ½ FULL FAT Greek yogurt; a tiny bit more flour than the original recipe; DONE. Removing them from the oven, I heard the angels singing from up above, after possibly rolling their eyes a few times. The one thing I love about recipe testing is all of the failed attempts. Needless to say the kids were happy. They loved all of them.
The moral of my long-winded story is: if you want cake-like cookies, feel free to sub all of the coconut oil in my recipe for FULL FAT Greek yogurt. Why full fat? Because you may not really appreciate the dry texture from using non fat yogurt. However, by following the recipe exactly as it is, you will be pleasantly surprised. They don’t have that crispiness but they do have that distinct soft chewiness of normal cookies — it’s hard to stop at one. And you don’t really have too with Mini Chocolate Chip Greek Yogurt Cookies. Especially for 23 calories.
If these were a little too portion controlled for you, go the complete opposite direction and try the single serve JUMBO chocolate chip cookie. It’s low in carb and big in YUM!
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