Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Everyone has their favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe. 

Except me. 

I've tried countless recipes over the years but the results were always ho hum. Good, yes. Edible, yes. But not stunning. Not "bakery" quality, not show-stoppers and definitely not sock removers (as in knock your socks off). Even the Mrs. Field's recipe that is so famous didn't tick all the boxes for me. 

So when my son found a chocolate chip cookie recipe that he wanted to try, I kept my eye-roll to myself and enthusiastically told him "Sure".

Coconut Oatmeal Cookies with Belgian Chocolate Drizzle

Coconut Oatmeal cookie with
Belgian dark chocolate swirls

I've always been leery of making anything with coconut to serve others. I guess I've come across too many people who don't like it or are allergic. But last summer, when I made some vanilla cupcakes and was experimenting with coconut buttercream, the reviews from 'the masses' were positive and no one had to visit the hospital. That experience gave me the gumption to work with an oatmeal cookie recipe that I'd already modified to suit my oatmeal taste buds. After a number of modifications and experimenting with different ways to bake them, I've ended up with a coconut oatmeal cookie that has become my new favourite. 

Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Chocolate Chunk cookie

There are a ton of chocolate chip cookie recipes out there and everyone seems to have their favourite. Personally, I've shied away from these calorie bombs for a number of years because as I've grown older and my metabolism slows, I just can't eat this sort of treat without it showing up later on the outside of my stomach. I also seem incapable of eating just ONE cookie at a time, so I tend to lean (....get it?..."lean"?) toward healthy, flavourful, not-sweet-not-rich baking that gives me the option of having 3 or 4 cookies at once without feeling or seeing the after effects. But enough about my eating habits.