A few years ago, my mom, my brother, and I traveled to Arizona the weekend before Thanksgiving to see my grandparents. We woke up early on Saturday morning to navigate through the crowded airport and catch the only nonstop Southwest flight from the Bay Area to Tucson.
After landing, we picked up a rental car and drove over an hour to my grandparents’ house in their small town. Once we had dropped off our bags in their guest bedrooms, we spent the rest of the day visiting, doing chores, and running errands for them, thoroughly enjoying every minute of quality time.
That evening after dinner, the three of us felt slightly exhausted from our long day of travel and nonstop activities in Arizona, so we collapsed on the sofa and armchairs in the living room to relax. I noticed a tub of bite-sized crunchy chocolate chip cookies from Trader Joe’s on the kitchen counter, and after checking with my family, I grabbed three little ones, put them on a napkin, and slowly nibbled on them while unwinding and talking with Mom.
Although I normally vastly prefer soft and chewy cookies over crunchy ones, I completely surprised myself by how much I loved those cookies from Trader Joe’s… And I even went back to the kitchen for a couple more that night, in addition to nibbling on them again the following evening after dinner too.
Yet when we returned home, I purposely avoided buying a tub at the Trader Joe’s in my California town… I knew I’d polish them off all by myself much too quickly!
After visiting my grandparents in December and again last weekend, I decided to try baking a batch of crunchy cookies in my own kitchen. After lots of testing and tweaking, I finally perfected this recipe for the Ultimate Healthy Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies!
They’re crisp and crunchy, not one bit soft or chewy like my other ultimate healthy chocolate chip cookie recipe, and they’re deliciously sweet with lots of rich chocolate morsels. Yet unlike the ones I ate in Arizona, these contain no eggs, refined flour or sugar and just 100 calories!
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