Buckwheat Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

because it's Valentine's Day & I'm sweet on you

As promised in I Dream of Food…my new fave chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Is there anything that says LOVE like a warm chocolate chip cookie?

Or, chocolate chip cookie dough? I’ve always been a fan. I recall an old flame of mine bringing me raw chocolate chip cookie dough on a movie date because he knew I liked it. My love for the cookie dough endured. :-)

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This recipe started with another recipe for springerele cookies (attempts documented by pics), proving so unusually difficult that it broke my mixer. As a result, we ended up buying a really cute (pink!) standing mixer that we’d wanted for a long time. In childhood, I remembered the sturdy mixer in my Great Grandmother’s kitchen - she had a turquoise one. This nostalgic purchase led John and I down a cookie crumb path of joyful baking.

“What should I make?” asks John.

“Anything you make I probably won’t be able to eat,” said my food sensitivities.

“I want to only make what you can eat,” said John.

“Then, I’d like chocolate chip cookies with monk fruit sugar and buckwheat.”

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The origin/authors of this cookie recipe: John + Me + ChatGPT

ChatGPT. Yes, it is true. Before, I’d start with a recipe I couldn’t totally eat, adjust it to my food sensitivities and cross my fingers that it would taste okay. But now if I need a highly customized recipe, voila- we just ask Chat GPT.

This is one of the ways we’ve begun to figure out how to use AI (Artificial Intelligence). John is a hot expert in bio-medical AI. My gal-pal, Alice, is an AI pioneer, too (check this out: She was recently featured on Hawaii News Now for offering “instant advice from a clone”)… so I am truly in the thick of it.

(In fact, it was because of these two that I took the plunge and used AI to redesign the book cover for my reissue of A Love Alchemist’s Notebook.)

Back to the recipe.

John to Chat GPT: “Create a sugar-free chocolate chip cookie recipe made with buckwheat flour and monk fruit sugar.”

Chat GPT to John: “Certainly! That sounds delicious. The nuttiness of the buckwheat will be a nice compliment to the chocolate. Here it is.”