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Healthy family recipe: Chocolate cookie meltdown

Try this chocolate cookie, which includes pumpkin puree!

    by Liz Coover, RD, LDN, clinical dietitian, Healthy Weight Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Published 

Try this chocolate cookie, which includes pumpkin puree!

Chocolate cookie meltdown

Ingredients:

  1. 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour

  2. 1 teaspoon of baking soda

  3. 1 teaspoon of salt

  4. ¼ cup of butter

  5. ¾ cup pumpkin puree

  6. ¾ cup granulated sugar

  7. ¾ cup packed brown sugar

  8. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract

  9. 1 egg

  10. 2 egg whites

  11. 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips

  12. Cooking spray

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

2. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.

3. Beat margarine, pumpkin puree, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla in a large mixer bowl.

4. Add egg, then egg whites, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture.

5. Stir in chocolate chips.

6. Lightly coat baking sheets with cooking spray. Drop cookie batter onto baking sheets using a rounded tablespoon.

7. Bake for 9-11 minutes, or until golden brown.

8. Place on wire racks to cool completely.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies

Recipe from the Healthy Weight Program's Nutrition in the Kitchen Cookbook, found at www.chop.edu/healthyweight.

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