Low Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies from Shelby A.

2 1/2 cups flour

1 small package vanilla pudding mix (dry)

1 tsp baking soda

1/8 to 1/4 tsp salt

1 cup butter

3/4 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup Stevia granules (NOT splenda. Stevia is a natural sweetener made with the stevia plant, unlike splenda which is an artificial sweetener. Stevia can be found by the sugar and the splenda.)

2 eggs

2 tsp vanilla

Ghirardelli or Guitard chocolate chips (I like to mix semi-sweet and milk chocolate together)

Heat oven to 375 degrees. Stir together flour pudding mix, baking soda, and salt. Set aside. In a separate bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, stevia, eggs, and vanilla.  Gradually blend dry mixture into wet mixture. Stir in chocolate chips. Sometimes, I make variations of this recipe. You can substitute the vanilla pudding mix for chocolate pudding mix, for example, or even add a bit of cocoa. Then do white chocolate chips, peppermint chips, toffee or m&ms for Christmas time. The sky is the limit. You can also use sugar free pudding mix. Bake at 375 for 8-9 minutes or until lightly golden. These are really soft cookies that stay soft because of the pudding. If you like 'em crunchy, these won't "frost your cookie." If you don't like the sugar substitutes, the original version of my recipe was with sugar, so you can substitute stevia for 3/4 cup sugar and increase salt  to 1/2 tsp. Happy eating!