WW Recipe of the Day: Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Today I'm excited to be sharing an amazing recipe for Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies from Tate's Bake Shop. I found it while perusing the Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook: The Best Recipes from Southampton's Favorite Bakery for Homestyle Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Muffins, and Breads (affiliate link) by Kathleen King.
It had been languishing on my overcrowded cookbook shelf for some time until Anna at Cookie Madness mentioned it in her post where she reviewed their popular chocolate chip cookies.
Tate's Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Where is the Original Tate's Bake Shop?
For those not familiar with the Tates Bake Shop story, its owner, Kathleen King, got her start baking chocolate chip cookies from her family's farm stand and then went on to open her successful Bake Shop in Southampton, NY in 1980 when she was just 20 years old.
Did you know that Kathleen King, Founder of Tate's Bake Shop is also a WW success story?
Ina Garten writes in the book's foreword that Barefoot Contessa, her legendary Gourmet Shop, carried everything Kathleen's Bake Shop made including her extremely popular thin and crispy chocolate chip cookies.
Now, nearly 30 years later Tate's Bake Shop is still going strong. I recently sampled her chocolate chip cookies and all I can say is WOW! (But that's another story for another post...)
The recipe that caught my eye was for chewy chocolate chip cookies with coconut and macadamia nuts that Kathleen refers to as "Chuckies" after the friend for whom she first made them.
As soon as I saw the recipe and read the ingredients I felt confident it would be a winner—a thin, crispy, chewy, chocolate chip cookie recipe filled with chunks of bittersweet chocolate, toasted macadamia nuts and toasted coconut.
Sunday, I made half a batch of these scrumptious chewy chocolate chip cookies. Rod and Mac were instantly smitten, declaring them the best cookies to ever come out of my oven.
Of course I have taken that as a challenge and am now on the hunt for the next great cookie recipe. So many cookie recipes, so little time!
The instructions guide you to use parchment paper and/or silicone liners on your cookie sheets. You can lightly grease them with nonstick cooking spray or shortening instead if you prefer.
These are the kind of cookies that are worth every calorie/Weight Watchers point as far as I'm concerned.
How Many Calories and WW Points in Tate's Homemade Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies?
According to my calculations, each cookie has just 167 calories.
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And with *8 WW Freestyle SmartPoints, or *5 Weight Watchers PointsPlus, they're a delicious bargain compared to a Paradise Bakery/Panera Bread Chocolate Chipper which weighs in with a whopping 440 calories/18 Freestyle SmartPoints!
Are Tate's Bake Shop Cookies Chewy?
While these homemade cookies are chewy, the Tate's Bake Shop Chocolate Chip Cookies you buy in the store are thin and crispy, and absolutely delicious. Even if you prefer soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies, you'll find it hard to resist these buttery cookies filled with yummy chocolate chips and toasted pecans.
Enjoy!
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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 2-¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks butter) softened
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 large eggs
- 1-½ cups bittersweet chocolate chunks or semisweet chocolate chips
- 1-½ cups macadamia nuts, toasted lightly and coarsely chopped
- 2 cups coconut, lightly toasted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment or silicone liners. Alternatively lightly grease them with shortening or non-stick cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt and set aside.
- In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugars with an electric mixer (affiliate link) on medium high speed until light and fluffy (3 to 4 minutes). Stop to scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula (affiliate link) if necessary to make sure everything is well combined.
- Add the eggs and vanilla and continue beating until smooth, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl again if necessary. Stir in the flour mixture just until combined. Stir in the chocolate chunks, macadamia nuts, and coconut.
- Using two tablespoons or a small ice cream scoop (affiliate link), drop the dough onto the prepared cookie sheets at least 2 inches apart, since the cookies will spread as they bake.
- Bake for about 12 to 18 minutes or until the edges start to brown and the centers are not too wet. (Kathleen specified 18 minutes as the baking time in her book, but mine were done at around 15.)
- Remove from the oven and cool cookies on the baking sheets for 10 minutes then transfer them to wire racks to cool completely.
Recipe Notes
Source: Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook: The Best Recipes from Southampton's Favorite Bakery for Homestyle Cookies, Cakes, Pies, Muffins, and Breads (affiliate link) by Kathleen King
*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.
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- Chewy Chocolate Espresso Cookies - A rich and chewy easy mocha cookie
Martha is the founder and main content writer for Simple-Nourished-Living.
A longtime lifetime WW at goal, she is committed to balancing her love of food and desire to stay slim while savoring life and helping others do the same.
She is the author of the Smart Start 28-Day Weight Loss Challenge.
A huge fan of the slow cooker and confessed cookbook addict, when she's not experimenting in the kitchen, you're likely to find Martha on her yoga mat.
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Anna
Maybe I'll try this recipe today since I finished off the bag of packaged Tate's. Meanwhile, I wish my Tate's Cookbook would get here. I ordered it Amazon over a week ago and it hasn't shown up. Strange.
Martha
I hate waiting for new cookbooks to arrive and really, really want to get a Kindle.
Paula Campos
Sweetened or unsweetened coconut?
Martha McKinnon
I used sweetened but the choice is yours. ~Martha