Hello! Happy Tuesday! I'm still here! With child! Faking enthusiasm! Baking cookies!
Baking very, very tasty cookies, I might add. Recently, I was sent some wonderful products from Madhava Natural Sweeteners - products that provide alternatives to highly processed sugars and artificial sweeteners. Pure Honey, Agave Nectar in all sorts of flavors (including vanilla and maple) and Organic Coconut Sugar. I was particularly interested in trying out the sugar, which is described as mild and sweet in flavor, gluten free, vegan and the perfect all-natural one-to-one replacement for refined sugars. Baking time! More exclamation marks!
I tried it out in a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe, adding some flaked sea salt on top because that makes everything better. I substituted granulated sugar with coconut sugar but still added some organic brown sugar resulting in THE softest cookie I've ever tasted. And because the coconut sugar is milder, it's not overly sweet. Of course I added buckets of chocolate chips - but it's all about balance, right?
*Update: the coconut sugar does not = coconut flavor, FYI*
Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies with Coconut Sugar
(Makes 2 dozen)Printable Recipe
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temp
3/4 cup Madhava Organic Coconut Sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 large eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups bread flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups chocolate chips
Sea salt for sprinkling on top
Preheat oven to 375. In a bowl with an electric mixer, cream together butter and both sugars until smooth. Add vanilla and eggs, and beat until combined. In a separate bowl, whisk together flours, baking soda and salt. Add to wet ingredients and beat until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips. Drop by rounded spoonful (or I like to use an ice cream scooper) onto parchment-lined baking sheets. Sprinkle with sea salt. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until just golden around the edges.
Now for the Giveaway!
Madhava is giving away a basket, $50 in value, that will include Organic Light, Amber and Raw Agave, Organic Coconut Sugar Shaker, Organic Raspberry, Maple and Vanilla Agave, Ambrosia Honey, Limited Edition Glass Honey Bear and Single Serve Packets of Coconut Sugar and Honey.
That's a lot of products, my friends...
Madhava is giving away a basket, $50 in value, that will include Organic Light, Amber and Raw Agave, Organic Coconut Sugar Shaker, Organic Raspberry, Maple and Vanilla Agave, Ambrosia Honey, Limited Edition Glass Honey Bear and Single Serve Packets of Coconut Sugar and Honey.
That's a lot of products, my friends...
Comment below to win and good luck!
Giveaway Rules:
1. You must be an official follower of this blog to win (click follow icon on the right).
2. Follow me on Twitter for an extra entry (comment below twice if you do).
3. Only open to residents of U.S. and Canada.
4. Winner will be chosen at random on Friday, August 31st, at 8am PST.
110 comments:
those cookies look delicious! I love coconut and chocolate together : )
YUM. being in my 3rd trimester with my 2nd, i relate to your cravings of sweets. i just made your pudding cookies and these look fantastic as well!
I follow your site by Email and I would love to try some goodies!!!
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I'm a follower! Those cookies look amazing!
hi siri! it's carrie from Blisstree and also from my own food blog, Plums in the Icebox. I'm following you here through my google account.
and i'm following you on twitter, too, at @carriemurph!
I follow on google reader. Does that count?
I'm a follower! These cookies sound TO. DIE. FOR!!!!
OK now I am craving Choc chip cookies! Not sure if I'm a blog follower officially (I subscribed using Google reader) but I am a twitter follower
OK now I am craving Choc chip cookies! Not sure if I'm a blog follower officially (I subscribed using Google reader) but I am a twitter follower
I am a follower and these cookies look Awesome!!
I am a follower - LOVE reading your blog! I also LOVE coconut :)
All of the products look so natural and yummy! I would love to win this basket!
Can't wait to try these!
Love the blog and this recipe!
ooh - and I follow you on twitter, too :)
you had me at ambrosia honey. i don't know what that is but it sounds fancy and heavenly.
and hello, i have never heard of coconut sugar! superrr excited to try it. thanks, boo
Also on twitter @jcarr829
id love to win coconut is my favorite id love to try that
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i also follow you on twitter
I follow you by email and I love your blog!
I follow you. Great giveaway!
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I follow you on twitter.
shankyouverymuch11(at) yahoo.com
These look amazing...I know what I'm going to do on this rainy day!
UMMMMM...those look fabulous! Me want! Following you through my google account...I love your blog!
Those cookies look so good & I'm not even a coconut lover. Love your blog, I follow it on Facebook.
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Love trying your recipes and it would be great to win this gift basket to test out a bunch of things I have never tried before!
Anddd I follow you on twitter for entertainment...
Salt makes EVERYTHING taste good! The cookies look delish.
(I follow you on FB)
I use their coconut sugar, but have never tried it in your siriously delicious looking cookies....mmm!
That cookie pic is making me hungry! I follow with GFC
I also follow on twitter as edmontonjb
You're killing me with all of these amazing baking recipes. I'm not pregnant I don't have an excuse to eat like this! The cookies look amazing, can't wait to try them and thanks for doing a giveaway!
I've never heard of coconut sugar!! I follow your blog...and it always makes me so hungry!
Coconut + chocolate = love. I've been subscribed for awhile but just actually followed with Google.
And I followed you on Twitter! @lindsv
I'm a follower! I can't wait to check the blog in the mornings to see what new recipe you've posted!
They look wonderful. Cngrats on the baby
I follow on twitter also as crrevis. Love you!!
My son has a dairy allergy, so coconut products are common in our kitchen. I want my whole life to be coconut scented. And coconut sugar? Where has that been all my life?
What do they say in radio? Long time listener (follower), first time caller (commenter)? Weirdest comment ever? Is there a contest for that? Or record use of question marks?
Yum! I am all for the salty sweet combo. There is a food shop in my town that makes a cookie called World Peace. Chocolate Shortbread with Sea salt on top. Awe. Some. How can there not be world peace with that cookie out there? If I send you some, can you try to recreate it? In all of your spare, new Mommy time, of course. :-)
officially following you although I make it a daily habit to check your page everyday, love you blog and your commentary on everything is highlarious
Love your recipes!! Thank you!
I follow you on twitter as well - justjenaz
I follow your blog! Hope you go into labor soon!
I now follow you on twitter. @mrs_lacy
Yumm! And the natural sweetners seem like a great alternative to refined white sugar.
Yumm! And the natural sweetners seem like a great alternative to refined white sugar.
Yummy - I'm a Follower
I am also following you on pintrest
& Twitter
My question is did they have a coconutty flavor?
I follow by email! Coconut is one of my favourite flavours!
Yum! Those cookies look amazing. I follow your blog
I also follow you on twitter
Salty AND sweet?? Must try these...
Tweet, tweet
These look amazing!
I love coconut sugar! Madahva's is the best!
I also followed you on twitter
I recently discovered this sugar. I look forward to trying this recipe!
That recipe looks positively yummy. I will be trying those cookies!
I would love to make these cookies! Thanks for the giveaway!
Your cookies look soooooo good!
Thank you very much for this new cookies recipe, I'm a cookie addict. Can't wait to try it!!
I'm an email follower.
vanillae@hotmail.fr
New to your blog and am excited. I must try these cookies. I am an email follower.
Those cookies look so delicious. I have never heard of Coconut Sugar and can't wait to try it.
I have so much fun keeping up with you and your cooking adventures. These cookies look amazing; I would love the basket to try out the goodies. Cheers from Minnesota Mary, now transplanted to Tennessee
Cookies look divine!
I also follow you on twitter! TriSARAtops :)
Yum Siri! Cant wait to try this recipe..I bet Jack is loving all the cookies as he waits for baby sister!
Yum Siri! Cant wait to try this recipe..I bet Jack is loving all the cookies as he waits for baby sister!
Followed! Those cookies look yummy!!
Tried the coconut sugar & LOVE it!! These cookies look absolutely amazing & the touch of sea salt sounds perfect! Would love to hear about more of these awesome recipes using these natural sweeteners! Thanks for sharing.
Ok these cookies look delish! This MN girl will have to try them ASAP (only with my GF flour blend)! Love your blog!
Yum! They look delicious!!
Oh my gosh - YUM. Would love to whip some cookies up right now.,
Wow78 comments so far....where have I been all day!!! Well I hope that #79 is my lucky # on Aug 31st !!! ;- )
Ok I also follow on Twitter...so maybe # 80 will be lucky ?
These cookies look amazing...and i am glad that the sugar doesn't taste like coconut. P. S. Someone I know might see you on Friday...maybe you will have leftover cookies!!!
Great giveaway!! I need to find some coconut sugar!
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I'd love to try all these variations!
follow on twitter, and GFC
@kc98765
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They look delicious. I'll have to make some this weekend!
These look wonderful....would love to try some of these products!
Those cookies look divine! Can't wait to make them!!
I just followed via e-mail! I'm so jealous of your perfect looking cookies! AND I LOVE MADHAVA :)
Totally Yummy Looking! I wish they could just appear to me. I do like to cook - its the extra cleaning that always stops me before I start!
Yum! Those cookies look amazing - will have my own kitchen again soon and I'll be sure to try this one!
I was shocked and just downright disgusted when Cookie Monster declared "cookies are a sometimes treat"...what the what?!? Not even he could pass up these babies, can't wait to try them myself!
I love those cookies! I'm a sucker for soft cookies so I will have to try the coconut sugar!
Also following you on twitter! @meredyth00
Yum! These cookies look delicious!! (I am a GFC follower)
larkspurpurple (at) gmail.com
Yum looks D-Lish
i also follow on Twitter!
A very ital snack indeed! I appreciate that it is all Non-GMO (no high risk ingredients and Madhava is verified!), cruelty free and I'm certain satisfying as well. Coconut anything is irresistible. I need to try this soon...
I followed on google! yeay!
i followed on twitter!! yeay!! :D
I am also a twitter follower
I've switched from refined sugar, and would love to try these.
cbstrat (at) gmail (dot) com
follow on gfc and twitter
@JBilliris
I LOVE Madhava products. I started using them to control my blood sugar. Sometimes I even put it in unsweetened almond milk.
I LOVE Madhava products. I started using them to control my blood sugar. Sometimes I even put it in unsweetened almond milk.
I just discovered Madhava sugar. I love the taste and texture!
I also started following you on Twitter!
Man, another recipe to try...keep em coming Siri!
And I follow you on twitter too!!
I guess I forgot my email address. rileyshay@gmail.com
Those cookies look like the bomb! I love the natural ingriedents as well!
These looked mouth watering!!
I also follow you on twitter! Good luck with your labor and delivery (I'm an OB nurse). Hope it happens soon :-)
What a great idea for cookie recipe. I will definitely try it.
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