Bye Bye Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup softened virgin coconut oil
• 1/2 cup brown sugar or 1/2 cup sucanat
• 3/4 cup sugar or 3/4 cup honey, granules
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 1/4 cups flour (3 cups if using freshly milled soft whole wheat flour)
• 1 cup pecans, ground
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 (12 ounce) bag chocolate chips

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375 degrees f.
• 2 in a stand or electric mixer, cream oil and sugars.
• 3 beat in eggs and vanilla until well combined.
• 4 slowly add flour, ground pecans, baking soda, salt and chocolate chips until just combined.
• 5 with a medium cookie scoop, scoop onto a parchment or silpat lined baking sheet and bake for 9-11 minutes, until slightly golden around edges.
• 6 (i substituted 3/4 cup of rolled oats and 1/4 cup of flaxseed for the pecans and put it in my blender to grind them up. you could use just 1 cup of oats, but i wanted to add some flax seeds.).