Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches

Oops, I forgot to post this after the oatmeal cookie disaster. It was in my drafts! Anyway…

After my oatmeal cookie disaster, I wanted to make something that I could share with my classmates. I decided to try something a bit easier and looked up recipes for healthy cookies. Healthy and cookies generally don’t go together, but I did find some recipes. Many of them used complicated ingredients as substitutes, but I did find one recipe that intrigued me. This recipe was for chocolate chip cookies. It only used 1 cup of sugar total, 1 cup of flour total, and used

Chocolate chip cookies

egg whites instead of whole eggs. I began by combining the baking soda, flour, and salt. I used two kinds of flour: whole wheat pastry flour and all purpose flour. From my past experience, whole wheat pastry flour is pretty heavy and dense, so to offset it, I used all purpose flour as well. Then I added sugar, butter, applesauce, an egg white, and vanilla. I just mixed those ingredients together and I got a thick, cookie-like batter. I was so happy after my previous cookie disaster!

I put tablespoon sized balls onto my greased cookie sheet. I let them bake for about 8 minutes and I could tell they were done because of the wonderful smell that was permeating from my oven!

Filling

To make these into a “sandwich,” I found a recipe for Oreo-like filling. Oreo filling has shortening in it, and I didn’t have that in my house, so I had to use an alternative. I simply used butter, confectioners sugar and a bit of vanilla. It came out well and I was able to make these chocolate chip cookies into sandwiches.

Cookie sandwiches

 

I handed these out in school and I had a couple comments. For starters, everyone said they were delicious, but I really wanted to hear about how I could improve them. A couple of my friends noted they were too sweet. I think this is because of the filling, which had the majority of the sugar content. Next time I will definitely use less sugar. Another comment I had was that the cookies should be a bit flatter. I completely agree, and next time I may use a different recipe for the cookie. I was going for a whoopie-pie type sandwich, but I could not find a healthy recipe, so I used this one instead. Thanks to all my friends who gave me feedback!

Grades:

Health: B-. What can I say, they’re cookies. Still, they are healthier than alternative cookies.

Taste: A. Great, but as noted they were a bit sweet.

Cost: A-. I had all of these ingredients in my home already, but some of them such as whole wheat pastry flour can be a bit costly.

Overall: B+. They’re cookies, so how healthy can I really make them? I think this is a great dessert to make if you want to try to eat healthier, but still want something sweet!

 

Oatmeal Cookie Sandwich Disaster

I wanted to make something to bring into school that my friends could try. I wanted to hear their opinions not only about how I was doing as an aspiring chef, but also the details about how the food tastes. When I think of cookies, my mind does not immediately dart to healthy. I searched high and low for recipes that were at least semi-healthy and came across a recipe for oatmeal cookies. I am not going to lie; I am in love with Betty Crocker oatmeal cookies, but now it was time to try to make a homemade version.

I started by mixing the wet ingredients together, which included brown sugar, butter, honey, egg, and vanilla. Then I mixed in my oats, salt, baking soda and

Batter. Look at how thin it is 😦

cinnamon. Everything seemed to be going great, until I realized the batter was not very cookie-like. It was pretty watery and could probably be confused for a cake batter if I didn’t know any better. Even once I continued to blend everything together using my electronic-beater, it still stayed in this strange consistency. I did try to bake some, even though as soon as I put the “cookie” onto the baking sheet, it basically covered the entire sheet. When I pulled them out of the oven 8 minutes later, it was a complete disaster!

I was extremely disappointed, because the cookies in the picture of the recipe looked delicious, while mine looked…erm…well, barely edible. It does go to show that not all online recipes are reputable, and next time I am definitely going to pay more attention to the reviews on a recipe. I can’t really rate this recipe or this food because it was, as I said, barely edible. Still, I believe that this was definitely a learning experience and I am going to keep this experience in my head whenever I am cooking in the future.

Epic fail