Shabbat is about joy and pleasure, eating good food with great company.
We love preparing lots of salad options, a hearty chicken soup, roasted chicken or meat and healthy sides dishes. But what about dessert? This week I brought out an old favorite – Chocolate Chip Cookies.
This recipe has always been a regular, but I haven’t baked them in ages. It’s in one of my very first cookbooks that was printed over 40 years ago. It actually calls for shortening!
Using Galilee Green Olive Oil was the obvious healthier choice and adding the hot pepper flakes made the cookies’ flavor pop and made them more Israeli 🙂
Ingredients:
- ½ cup Galilee Green Olive Oil
- ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup unsifted flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 6-ounce package of chocolate chips
- ¼ teaspoons hot pepper flakes
Directions:
- Mix olive oil, sugar and egg very well
- Add vanilla and beat until light and fluffy
- Add dry ingredients and blend well
- Stir in chocolate chips
- Use a spoon to drop cookie mixture to un-greased cookie sheet
- Place cookies 2 inches apart
- Bake at 375F or 190C for 8-10 minutes until done
Nothing more to say, but YUMMY!!!
5 Comments
yutu123 · August 29, 2016 at 10:12 pm
I do the spice with Cayenne pepper but will try chili flakes.
Nili N Arnie Abrahams · March 23, 2017 at 10:37 am
Sounds yummy, too.
eye1iris · March 23, 2017 at 8:44 am
Step 5 of the Spicy Chocolate Chip recipe should say, “un-greased cookie sheet.” But we know what you meant!
My Mom’s recipe says to use shortening also, but I never do.
Nili N Arnie Abrahams · March 23, 2017 at 10:44 am
Thanks for letting me know. WE will fix that. 🙂 I used to use shortening also. YUCKY.
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