CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES WILL HELP!

First an editorial note: Somehow my blog posts are appearing on Facebook (not sure how I figured that out). For anyone interested, they are being pulled from my blog at http://www.enduromom.blogspot.com/.

Okay, with that out of the way I will get to the business at hand - Chocolate Chip Cookies. More importantly, Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies. Saturday is loooong run day and so I feel entitled to eat anything I want (a little counter productive, I know, but a girl's gotta live a little). And besides I came home from a very cold, very icey/slushy run today with a bad attitude and cookies do indeed help as advertised.

So before getting to the recipe I just have to air my bad mood. Some people might say that my running is "dangerous". But really I try everything I can to be safe, I wear bright orange (a real fashion feaux pas in my opinion), I run against traffic, I switch sides when rounding a blind curve. Really, I have no ill will, just out doing what I have to do in order to get my cookie. But the roads are really bad - hardly any shoulder to run on and the sidewalks are simply impassable. I am only on a busy road for a 1/2 mile to get to a quiet neighborhood where it is safe to run down the middle of the road. So on this half mile of treachery I have encountered all manner of extremely rude hand gestures, people who play chicken with me, the ones who intentionally hit the puddle to watch me get a shower. I've gotten an occasional wad of litter tossed at me and had people open the window and swear at me. And we live in a really, really super nice place (not being sarcastic either). I am getting the vibe that people think I am doing something seriously offensive? I guess I may make them slow down and cost them an extra minute of travel time? But today was the absolute level worst. A woman approached me, while talking on her cell phone and smoking a cigarette and somehow managed to roll down her window, flip me the bird and flick her cigarette at me. And, she had two kids in the back of the car. I ask - who was steering the car? She clearly had her hands full - and which one of us was being more dangerous on the roads?!!

Okay so I earned my daw-gone cookie today! Here is the recipe for what we think is one mighty fine chocolate chipper:

Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe is very sensitive and will not come out well with substitutions.

1 ¾ C Featherlight Mix (Bette Hagman) which is listed below
½ C. Sorghum flour
¼ C. Flax seed meal (ground flax seeds)
½ teaspoon xanthan gum
½ C. Butter or margarine (unsalted)
½ C. shortening
¾ C. white sugar
¾ C. brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
Choc. Chips
Nuts if desired

Featherlight Flour Mix (I usually make up a big bag of this and keep it on hand):
3 Cups rice flour (1 part)
3 Cups Tapioca Flour (1 part)
3 Cups Corn Starch (1 part)
3 Tablespoons Potato flour (1 teaspoon per cup)

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Have ready but not greased 2 cookie sheets (I use parchment paper on them).

In a medium bowl, blend the flour mix, sorghum and xanthan gum. Set aside. In the bowl of your mixer cream the butter, shortening and both sugars. Add baking soda, salt and vanilla. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Add the dry ingredients and beat well. Still in chips and nuts.

Spoon the dough onto the cookie sheets using approximately 1 ½ teaspoons at a time (I use a cookie dough scoop to help get a uniform size for carb counting). Bake for 9-10 minutes.

We count each cookie (approx. 2”) at 10g. of carb.