Healthy-ish chocolate chip cookies

I looked over what seems like hundreds of chocolate chip cookie recipes and their corresponding reviews online to create this healthy-ish version. Why? Because you asked for an alternative to the traditional crisco-laden sugar-drenched chocolate chip cookie. This healthy-ish alternative is flourless and dairy-free. Please note, it contains oats and, therefore, is not gluten-free.

Ingredients:

1 cup of coconut oil or butter (same thing)

1/2 cup of organic sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 1/4 cup of almond meal

1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

3 cups oats

1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts, cashews, macadamias, or almonds)

1 cup polyphenol rich chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 325 F

Heat coconut oil to liquefy it (it is already liquid in the summer).

In a large bowl cream together coconut oil and sugar. Beat in eggs and add vanilla.

Stir in almond meal, baking soda, salt until the mixture is creamy.

Mix in the oats, chocolate chips and nuts.

Roll the cookie dough into balls in your hands and drop onto a non-greased stainless steel cookie sheet.

Bake for 15 minutes.