The Sweet Kitchen: Salted Double Dark Chocolate Cookies with Salted Carmel Sugar Sprinkle

As Christmas and the Holidays approach I am ready to experiment with some new cookie recipes. I am trying to adjust some to see if I can use healthier ingredients and still have a good tasting cookie. In today's recipe I swapped regular flour for white whole wheat flour. I swapped the brown sugar for coconut sugar and the granulated sugar for Truvia sugar blend. Since this recipe uses dark chocolate already, I made no changes to that. 

The Ingredients:

1 C white whole wheat flour

3/4 C dark cocoa powder

3/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

10 TBSP butter room temperature

3/4 C coconut sugar

1/3 C Truvia sugar blend

1 large egg

2 tsp vanilla extract

1-2 C of dark chocolate chips

flaky sea salt

salted caramel sugar (optional)

The recipe:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda in a bowl and set aside. 

Cream the butter and sugars in a mixer until light and fluffly. (The coconut sugar will not get as fluffy as regular brown sugar). Add egg and vanilla and beat until combined. 

Add the dry ingredients and slowly mix until combined. 

Add the chocolate chips and mix until combined. 

Scoop onto baking sheet and sprinkle with flaky salt. 

Bake until cookies are set approx 15-18 minutes. 

Sprinkle the tops with a pinch of salted caramel sugar.