Glutton free

So now that I'm home during the day, I watch Martha Stewart. She's kind of a bitch. But she has guests that make food I want to make. One day she had on Erin McKenna, the owner of Babycakes gluten free bakery, and they made these gluten free chocolate chip cookies.


The fat in the recipe is coconut oil, which to me makes this a healthy cookie. I justify anything to mean healthy, but this might actually be. Erin writes in the book that coconut gets stored in the body as energy, not fat. It just looks like shortening.


It also uses evaporated sugar cane instead of processed sugar. It gives a molasses flavor to the cookie, which is interesting.


Erin was insistent on the show that she only uses a spatula to mix the dough. But the coconut oil stayed in lumps, so I had to use a mixer to break those up.


It's really a good cookie. They're a little pricey, but I need to stop shopping at Kroger. I bought some of the ingredients like the gluten free flour at Kroger, and it was much more expensive than I found at Good Earth today. I'd rather shop at the local stores anyway. "It's part of my advocacy."