Homemade Chocolate Crisps
This originally appearaed on Sugar Savvy.
My mother always said there would be days like these. And if I were my mother, I would have had leftovers loaves of sweet breads and cookies waiting in the freezer that I could have easily thawed in a moment’s notice. But alas, I’m not my mother and I don’t even come close to rivaling her in the kitchen. I don’t have a cranberry nut loaf in my freezer or a tin of homemade chocolate chip cookies.
I came home from work on Thurs night and my friend who was visiting from out of town was coming over to my house in less than 4 hours and along with her were coming two of my other girlfriends. What do you serve when girls come together late night for the munchies? Chocolate! Four hours would be enough to whip up a chocolate indulgence ordinarily, but there was one caveat… my 5:30pm spinning class. Oh I know what you’re thinking – how could riding a stationary bike get in the way of good friends and chocolate? Well, I could say it’s not just any spinning class, but that’s not why people come to this food blog, Sugar Savvy is it? Go to FitFare for that piece. But don’t worry sweet-toothed readers, I won’t disappoint. I just had to be focused and I knew I could do both.
Before I embarked on my hour-long sweaty stationary journey, I took stock of my pantry - the far upper left corner, to be exact where the delicious chocolate stash is kept. Unsweetened cocoa powder, bittersweet dark chocolate - check. I flipped open one of my Eating Well cookbooks for a quick recipe that I knew was fast, easy, and would satisfy chocolate cravings without sacrificing the time I put in on my spin bike.
Click on the link to the Eatingwell.com website to see the recipe for Eating Well’s Chocolate Crisps. Each cookie has just 38 calories and 2 grams of fat. Also, the recipe made more than 12 cookies Eating Well projects for me. I made 16, so if you want a dozen cookies exactly, make sure those are indeed generously heaping teaspoonfuls.
By the time, my guests arrived, the cookies had just cooled. My friends were happily surprised by the combination of rich chocolate taste and the low calories. An easy feel good cookie I plan to make again, perhaps just for myself the next time.
