Passover Chocolate Chip Cookies

I think one of my favorite sweet treats during Passover is chocolate chip cookies. At one time, we were able to buy them processed in a box and then the only company that had been manufacturing them quit making them. My mom always bought several boxes of these cookies to get us through the week of passover. Once they quit making the boxed cookies, we started seeing kosher for Passover chocolate chips at the market and so we decided to make the cookies ourselves.
I'm going to share two recipes with you as you can not always find kosher for Passover brown sugar. The recipes are very similar, the second one omitting the brown sugar and adding in orange juice.

Here are the ingredients for the recipe using brown sugar:

• 2 ½ cups chocolate chips
• 2 eggs
• 1 ½ cups butter or margarine
• 1 ½ cups cake meal
• ½ cup matzah meal
• 1 ¾ cup brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons vanilla sugar
• ¼ teaspoon salt

Mix together the eggs, sugars, butter and salt. Once mixed, add in the cake meal and matzah meal. Mix well. Finally, add in the chocolate chips. Drop by large tablespoonful onto greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degree for thirteen to seventeen minutes. Cookies should be a brown color. Remove to cooling rack and enjoy.

If you can not find the brown sugar at your local store, here's another recipe:

• 1 cup chocolate chips
• 1 ½ cups cake meal
• 2 eggs
• 1 tablespoon orange juice
• 1 ½ cups white sugar
• 2 sticks of butter or margarine, softened
• 1 teaspoon potato starch
• 1 teaspoon salt
  

If you can find kosher for Passover vanilla, add in one teaspoon.

Cream together the butter and sugar. Add in the eggs and mix. Next, add in the cake meal, orange juice, potato starch and salt. Mix thoroughly. Gently add in the chocolate chips. Drop by large tablespoonful onto greased cookie sheets. Bake at 350 degrees fifteen to seventeen minutes. Cookies should be a brown color. Remove to cooling rack.

If you like nuts, you can add in one half cup chopped walnuts. Add them in at the same time you are adding in the chocolate chips.

These cookies come out on the hard side. They are not soft and chewy. They make a great ending to any meal. They also pack very nicely in the kids' lunches. We actually enjoy putting them in the freezer, making them just a little bit harder before eating.

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