Simple Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies with Fresh Milled Flour

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There is nothing like homemade chocolate chip cookies. What makes them better is when we use fresh ingredients. If you love to cook with fresh milled flour, then stick around and I’ll share my simple homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe with freshly milled flour.

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Why Fresh Milled Flour Makes a Difference

Milling your own flour may seem old fashion and outdated way of cooking. When you consider we are being fed junk from the stores from big businesses who don’t care much about our health. The whole reason I started using fresh milled flour is knowing how beneficial it can be.

Flour from the store can sit on the shelves for months before someone buys it and it is aged before it even hits the shelves! These flours from the store have been stripped of all their nutritional value. Our bodies simply can’t absorb anything it has to offer. People have been seeing differences in their health because they are consuming only fresh milled flour instead of store bought.

Another consideration is how the wheat berries (just like a crop you would grow in our garden) how has it been treated and what has it been sprayed with? You won’t ever know unless you are buying or sourcing it yourself.

What Benefits Does Fresh Milled Flour Offer?

When you use wheat berries, they still contain the bran and the germ still intact. The bran is the hard outermost layer, and the germ is in the center of the berry. Fresh milled flour will contain good vitamins, fiber, protein, and minerals. Freshly milled flour also contains 40 of the 44 nutrients the human body needs, which is mind blowing on it’s own.

When you compare to commercial flour it doesn’t take long to see a huge difference in one over the other. When the flour is processed commercially the flour loses the rich texture it could provide and beneficial nutrients of the wheat berry.

Making Homemade Cholate Chip Cookies with Fresh Milled Flour

To start your chocolate chip cookies, you’ll want to go ahead and mill the flour. For this recipe you’ll only need 2.5 cups of fresh milled flour. To achieve this amount, use two full cups of berries works just fine with about 1/4 cup left over. Add together two- and one-half cups of flour and mix in the teaspoon of baking powder and teaspoon of baking soda and set aside.

Next, you’ll add a half cup of softened, unsalted butter to a mixing bowl, with one cup of packed light brown sugar. Cream those together with a hand mixer or a stand mixer. Once those have been creamed, add in two eggs and mix well until combined.

At this point the dough should like creamy and smooth after adding the eggs. Add in your dash of vanilla extract, two if you’re feeling fancy. Add in a fourth of a teaspoon of pink himalayan sea salt to the creamy mixture as you are adding the vanilla. Give that a good mix.

Add in your dry mixture to the sugar and butter mixture. You should do this step with a little bit of flour at the time, so there isn’t a huge mess. Once the dough starts to stiffen up you can add in our choice of chocolate chips. I measure these with my heart instead of a measuring cup. If you prefer to use precise measuring about one and a half cups of chocolate chips will do. Mix until combined.

Scoop onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper at 350 degrees for 9 minutes.

Storage for Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies

These homemade chocolate chip cookies will keep for 1 week in a airtight container at room temperature. However, they won’t last that long when they are as delicious as they look.

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