Name: Einkorn Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 55 min
Ingredients: 500 grams fresh milled whole wheat einkorn flour, sifted, reserve bran; 1 ¾ teaspoon sea salt; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 cup olive oil; 1 egg + 1 egg yolk; ¾ cup maple sugar; 1/3 cup raw honey; 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract; ¼ teaspoon almond extract; 1 ½ cups chocolate chips, sweetened with dates or honey

GOURMET OLIVE OIL COOKIES. SAVOR THEM.

Einkorn Chocolate Chip Cookies rich with craveable and nourishing ingredients.

chocolate chip cookies made with einkorn wheat

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ABOUT EINKORN CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Can you taste the olive oil in the cookies? Yes! So, use your favorite high quality extra virgin olive oil. Enjoy the rich taste and health benefits of olive oil even in a cookie. Healthy ingredients and low cooking temperatures join forces and give us a cookie for our nourishment and enjoyment.

Gather excellent ingredients including antioxidant rich olive oil, date sweetened dark chocolate, and fresh milled Einkorn wheat. Use natural sweeteners like honey and maple sugar rather than typical cane sugar.

Whole wheat and olive oil give these cookies deeper flavor than traditional cookies offer. Slightly crisped on the bottom and soft on the inside—prepare your palate for cookies with a nutty rich flavor, a hint of bitter dark chocolate, and a touch of sweetness from honey and maple. Savor them.

This easy cookie recipe makes approximately 3 dozen cookies. Bake what you need and freeze the rest of the pre-shaped dough for easy future healthy desserts. They bake in 12-14 minutes from frozen.

HELPFUL EQUIPMENT
Grain mill – for freshly milled einkorn whole wheat flour, milled fine (pre-milled store-bought whole-wheat einkorn flour should work also, although I haven’t tested it yet. The outcome may be slightly different)
Whisk – no need for a mixer with these cookies
3 mixing bowls – large glass mixing bowls. Use one for all the dry ingredients then sift them into another bowl before adding them to the wet ingredients in a 3rd bowl.
Wire rack – for cooling the cookies
Small sauce pan – to warm olive oil slightly before soaking the einkorn wheat bran in it.
Cookie scoop – Use a 1 1/2” cookie scoop with an easy release to form cookies uniform in size
Baking sheet – I bake cookies on a stainless-steel baking sheet

INGREDIENTS
einkorn flour – fresh milled whole wheat, sifted, reserve the bran
sea salt
baking soda
olive oil – high quality, extra virgin, organic
1 egg + 1 egg yolk
maple sugar – without additives
raw honey
pure vanilla extract
almond extract
chocolate chips – sweetened with dates or honey

PREP BEFORE COOKING

I developed this recipe using fresh milled whole wheat einkorn flour. Mill 500 grams of flour from einkorn wheat berries.
Have three bowls and a sifter ready.
Don’t forget to bring the eggs to room temperature. Don’t worry I remind you in the recipe.

egg, raw honey, and maple sugar for homemade cookies

wet ingredients for homemade einkorn wheat cookies

HOW TO SERVE

Serve these, after they cool for at least 10 minutes, with raw milk (or low-temp vat pasteurized), raw plain kefir, or on their own after a fabulous nourishing family dinner.

TIPS FOR SUCCESS

A minute of baking makes a big difference in cookies. Watch closely and test the cooking time repeatedly (not a bad job) to see what works best with your oven and for your taste.
Let the cookies sit for only two minutes on the hot baking sheet after they come out of the oven. Then, let them rest for 15 minutes on a wire rack before serving. Once completely cool, store them in an airtight container or a plastic zipper bag.
Use a pure olive oil you like the taste of. Don’t forget to adjust the baking temperature to 325° we don’t want to cook olive oil on high heat.
If you try making these einkorn cookies with pre-milled store-bought flour, which (heads up) I haven’t tested yet, make sure you measure the flour in grams using a kitchen scale for the best results.

WHAT TO AVOID

Avoid overmixing the dough. Simple fold it and don’t aim to incorporate all the flour until the very end.
Heat the olive oil to 80°, no hotter.
Don’t let the einkorn cookies sit on the hot baking sheet longer than two minutes or the bottoms may end up tasting overcooked.

homemade einkorn wheat chocolate chip cookies

STORAGE AND LEFTOVER TIPS

Once the cookies cool completely, place them in an airtight covered glass dish or a plastic zipper bag for storage.
This recipe makes approximately 3 dozen cookies. Unless you need all 3 dozen pronto, I recommend freezing pre-shaped cookie dough for later.