Soft Chewy Choc Chip Cookies without so much better?

Is it too much to ask for?  If I have to use a lot, then I have to, but 2 c flour to 1½ c butter seems excessive to me.  OTOH, I don't like crispy cumbly cookies.  I guess I'm in denial.

DD

Wow, I must have looked at a dozen or more online recipes, and the least any called for was 12 T to 2 cups of flour.  I'm going to look up that one with the pudding in it that chefedb mentioned.  Sounds very promising (as long as it doesn't have HFCS in the pudding).

DD

Is this the pudding one, chefedb?

Chocolate chip cookies by Jell-o-pudding.

2-1/4 cup un-sifted all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butter or margarine softened
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 package (4 serving size) Jell-o instant vanilla pudding
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 package (12 oz) chocolate-chips
1 cup chopped nuts (opitional)

Mix flour with baking soda. Combine butter, the sugars, vanilla and pudding mix in a large mixer bowl; beat until smooth and creamy. Beat in eggs. Gradually add flour mixture; then stir in chips and nuts. (batter will be stiff.) Drop by rounded measuring teaspoonfuls, about 2 inches apart, onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 7 dozen. For Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies, substitite Chocolate flavor instant pudding.

If you use butter the cookies are good but with margarine they do not spread so much.

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Because it is one of the most insidiously unhealthy things you could ever put in your body.  It is linked to so many long term chronic diseases.  I avoid it whenever I can.  Plain cane sugar is bad enough, but high fructose corn syrup is much worse.

DD

High-fructose corn syrup is a complex compund that is basically the combination of sucrose and fructose after they are broken down and extracted from corn. The conversion is what causes the engineered sugar.

 Natural fructose is not broken down by the liver but high-fructose corn syrup is. Because this compound is what is called a free sugar and not recognized by the body as a natural sugar, it is not easily broken down in the body.   A study on the chemical composition of carbonated beverages by a Rutgers University researcher in 2007 revealed that the converted sugar compound that is high-fructose corn syrup--found in all sodas--deposits potentially high levels of harmful carbonyl compounds (carbon dioxide and carbonyl sulfide) into the system.

High-fructose corn syrup as a regular food additive and preservative is actually a fairly new phenomenon. Because of this, we are just starting to see the adverse affects (or at least the debate is getting louder over the direct correlation of health indications and HFCS). It has been added to foods and beverages since the late 1970s. Some opponents in the medical community have linked HFCS to obesity, insulin spikes and increased acidity. Although the debate has not been resolved conclusively, high-fructose corn syrup is now slowly being removed from food and beverages in the United States. It is banned in Europe.

(from http://www.ehow.com/about_5494851_problems-fructose-corn-syrup.html

But I've seen many other reports, with associated studies, the most notable one from UC Davis that this man made sugar has far longer reach than these few factors.  It affects almost every function in the body.   It is thought (but not proven) that it actually blocks glucose takeup - so the body thinks it is starved and produces more and more glucose.   Bad stuff.

You can eat it if you want to,   I prefer not to.   I already have enough problems with carbohydrates, I don't need the "non natural ones mucking things up even worse.   My body does not metabolize carbs right.  There are about 12 steps, and it only gets halfway there.  The end by products are various citrates (found in the urine) and my body does not produce them unless I take B6 and K (potassium) supplements.   Evidence you say? Oxalate type kidney stones. (not the ones from too much protein, those are another type than I have.)   I do not have diabetes, but insulin resistance, (some think it is a precurser) which has my pancreas spewing out way too high levels of insulin, and when that happens, B6 and K are known to leech out of the system. Low levels of those two are associated with high levels of insulin.   I have not had any kidney stones since giving up non-natural sugars in 1991, and also by taking those supplements.   Might I be OK taking more chances?  Maybe, but I'm not prepared to have more stones when other ingredients are available.

Yes, I do eat cookies, fruit and other stuff with sucrose/fructose in it, but I'm sure to take my supplements when I do.  My sugar levels are normal, even after having had glucose in an IV all night.  My body does deal with it.  But the cost is very high levels of insulin, with the associated vitamin/mineral deficiencies.

So far so good. No more stones since researching all this for myself, no doctor ever helped me find this out.   (But my gyno took notes and started recommending these supplements for her oxalate kidney stone patients - many pregnant women get them during gestation).  

I prefer not to skate out onto the ice, not knowing how thick it is, and if there are any sharks under there, thank you.  If I cannot handle the sweets God intended for us, then I'm sure not taking chances with man made ones.  Most days I can stick with a pretty controlled level of carbs, especially simple carbs.   But without the occasional splurge, well, life can be pretty dull.