Chocolate Chip Cookies - Peruvian style

When the missionaries come to the mission home or to other buildings for interviews with President Chipman, they usually get a homemade cookie. Luckily for Sister Chipman, there is Laura who works at the mission home and she helps bake all those cookies!  Chocolate chip cookies are a missionary favorite because they are not usually found here because brown sugar isn’t available.  Thankfully, a resourceful mission leader serving in the Peru Lima Central Mission, Hermana Ferrell, shared with Hermana Chipman a recipe that she found that uses Panela instead of brown sugar. 

Here is the recipe:

**Note: If you have American brown sugar, change the amount of white sugar to ¾ cup and substitute ¾ cup brown sugar for the panela.

Mix the first three ingredients well and set aside separately.

3 C flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

Mix to combine with a mixer.

¾ C (200g) butter

1 ⅛ C  white sugar   

¼ C + 2 TBS Panela 

Then add:

1 tsp vanilla

2 eggs

2 C chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350 degrees (convection oven is 325 degrees) or 175 Celsius.

Bake 8-10 minutes until light brown.

Another Note: The missionaries love these cookies and always ask for the recipe. Please keep in mind that the mission experience might be what makes these taste so good!