Perfect Fresh Milled Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies for High Altitude Baking

If you’ve been searching for the perfect fresh milled flour chocolate chip cookies recipe, look no further. After many trials at high altitude, I’ve perfected a bakery-style cookie that’s soft, chewy, and brimming with the rich, wholesome flavor of freshly milled flour.

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If you’ve been looking for the best chocolate chip cookie recipe that brings out the rich flavor of freshly milled whole wheat, you’re in for a treat. I use a 50/50 blend of hard white wheat and kamut berries in this recipe, which adds a natural sweetness, mild nuttiness, and an irresistibly soft texture.

Living in Colorado, I’ve learned that baking is truly a science, especially when it comes to cookies. Getting that perfect balance of chewy and soft chocolate chip cookies at high elevation is no easy task. After years of tweaking and testing, I finally nailed a bakery-style chocolate chip cookie that bakes up perfectly every time, thanks to freshly milled flour and a few high-altitude tricks.

This post is all about fresh milled flour chocolate chip cookies.

Why Bake with Freshly Milled Flour?

Switching to freshly milled flour makes a huge difference. When you mill your own flour, you preserve all parts of the wheat berry, including the bran and germ. This provides not only better nutrition but also a richer, fuller flavor than store-bought flour. I’m especially fond of the kamut and hard white wheat blend for cookies, as it gives just the right balance between soft and chewy without feeling heavy.

How To Mill Fresh Flour?

Milling fresh flour from wheat berries is easier than it might seem and brings incredible benefits to your baking. To start, you’ll need a grain mill, which can be electric or hand-cranked, and some high-quality wheat berries.

This is the flour mill that we use in our house. We inherited it from my husband’s grandma and it has been wonderful! It works wonderfully. Eventually I would love to upgrade to a grain mill like the one in the right picture that shoots the flour out the bottom. That is my biggest annoyance with our current grain mill is getting all of the flour out of the bottom chamber.

Hard white wheat and kamut are my favorite choices, each adding unique flavors and textures. Begin by adding the wheat berries to your mill and adjusting the setting based on the desired coarseness. Freshly milled flour retains the wheat’s nutritious germ, bran, and endosperm, which are often taken out in commercial flours, giving your baked goods a richer flavor and extra nutrition.

Once ground, use your fresh flour as soon as possible to maximize its health benefits and flavor, especially in recipes like bread, cookies, or pancakes where you can truly taste the difference. Freshly milled flour can transform your baking, bringing out wholesome, natural flavors that you won’t find in store-bought flours.

High-Altitude Baking Tips

Living at high altitude means adjusting traditional cookie recipes for best results. Here’s what I recommend for baking success at elevation:

1. Melt the Butter: Melting the butter before mixing helps with structure at higher altitudes, ensuring a denser, chewy texture rather than a flat, spread-out cookie.
2. Increase the Flour: High altitudes can cause cookies to spread more, so the 3½ cups of freshly milled flour in this recipe gives the structure needed to create that bakery-style, puffed look.
3. Underbake Slightly: Pull the cookies out when they’re puffed and just beginning to turn golden. They’ll continue to set on the baking sheet, giving you a soft center and chewy edges.

The Best Fresh Milled Flour Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup unsalted butter, melted (about 30 seconds)
• 1 cup granulated white sugar
• ½ cup packed light brown sugar
• 4 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 3½ cups fresh-milled flour (50/50 blend of hard white wheat and kamut berries)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp table salt
• 1⅓ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions:

1. Preheat Oven: Set your oven to 350°F (175°C) and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Melt Butter: Melt the butter in the microwave for about 30 seconds, just until fully melted. This will help the cookies stay soft and chewy.
3. Combine Butter and Sugars: In a large mixing bowl, beat together the melted butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until creamy and smooth. This should take about 2 minutes.
4. Add Vanilla and Eggs: Add in the vanilla extract and eggs, beating until well combined.
5. Mix Dry Ingredients: In a separate bowl, combine the freshly milled flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add this dry mixture to the wet ingredients, mixing just until a soft dough forms. Overmixing can lead to tougher cookies.
6. Let the Dough Rest: Allow the dough to rest for 15 minutes. This lets the freshly milled flour fully absorb the liquid, resulting in a better-textured cookie.
7. Fold in Chocolate Chips: Gently fold in the chocolate chips until evenly distributed.
8. Scoop the Dough: Use a cookie scoop to portion out dough balls onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing them about 2 inches apart. Aim for 12 cookies per tray.
9. Bake: Bake for 9-11 minutes, or until the cookies are puffed and just barely turning golden around the edges. Do not overbake! They’ll continue to cook on the baking sheet, ensuring a soft center.
10. Cool and Enjoy: Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack.

Tips for Success

• Don’t Overmix: Stirring the dough just until combined helps keep the cookies soft. Freshly milled flour is particularly sensitive to overmixing.
• Letting Dough Rest: Freshly milled flour absorbs liquid differently, so this step is key for consistent texture.
• Freezing Dough: If you want cookies on demand, scoop and freeze the dough balls on a baking sheet. Once frozen, store them in a freezer bag and bake whenever the craving hits!

Why These Cookies Are the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies achieve the best of both worlds: the nutty, rich flavor of whole wheat paired with the soft and chewy texture we all love in a classic chocolate chip cookie. By using freshly milled flour and making small tweaks for high-altitude success, this recipe yields bakery-style cookies that taste even better than store-bought.

Switching to fresh milled flour has been a game-changer in my baking, and these soft chocolate chip cookies are a family favorite. I’m thrilled to share this recipe and hope it brings joy to your kitchen!

This post was all about fresh milled flour chocolate chip cookies.

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