Can You Substitute Carob chips for chocolate chips in a chocolate chip cookie recipe?

Question

In all of the carob chip cook recipes I found, you must use honey, whole wheat flour ect. So I was wondering if I could just substitude carob chips into a chocolate chip cookie recipe.

If im gonna make a test cookie might as well make the whole batch.

Answer 1

You can certainly do carob in place of choc chips, personally I don't like them but it is a feasible substitution for choc chips. In my experience, carob is a little dryer than choc chips, maybe spray them (chill first so they don't goo together) with Pam to give them a little moisture. Also it isn't as sweet, so you might toss your Pam-coated carob chips in a little bit of sugar (sift off the excess) before you add to the cookie dough.

The reason you are getting the honey, whole wheat, etc is because carob is usually considered a health food or allergy sufferers alternative to chocolate, so you found a so-called health food recipe. You can sub any of these items for their "bad" counterpart, with or without the others. I use whole wheat flour for all my recipes for example.

I suggest looking up the Nestle's Toll House recipe, and use your carob chips as a straight sub.

Answer 2

It's delicious! I did it for a science project. They taste pretty much the same. They are a little different, but you wouldn't be able to tell if you didn't know.

Answer 3

cook one test cookie see if it tastes okay. Then prepare whole recipe

Answer 4

Yes
what do you call the cookie if you leave out the chocolate chips..??
and use butterscotch or use dates and nuts or apricots and raisins OR or or
DUH

Answer 5

Yes, you can!