A while back I was lamenting about not being able to eat cookies on my diet. I mean really, what kind of healthy diet do you people expect me to follow? I’ll give up cereal and butter but you are going to have to pry my chocolate chip cookies out of my dead hand. Well, my friend Laura came to my rescue with this great recipe for brownies. When I made the brownies, ate the brownies and awoke from my chocolate stupor I wrote this lovely post thanking her. Well Laura, being the kind of girl who just can’t stop giving, responded with a recipe for cookies that used beans instead of butter. No, you did not read that wrong BEANS INSTEAD OF BUTTER! Since the brownie recipe turned out so well I threw caution to the wind and broke open a can of Northern Beans and gave it a shot. Well, here is the result:

These cookies were scrumptious and you could not taste beans at all. My kids loved them and Max has already eaten three in the time that it has taken me to write this post. All I did was drain one can of Northern Beans and beat it by itself in my mixer. I then added my sugars (I used Splenda, but regular sugar would work too), vanilla, eggs and flour mixture (just follow the recipe on the back of the chocolate chips bag). Baked them like I would regular cookies and they turned out great. Now, they are bit more cake-like than normal cookies, but other than that you can’t tell the difference — oh, except for the extra family flatulence you can probably expect later in the evening.