Chocolate chip breakfast cookies – A combo between a soft cookie and a muffin top packed with mini chocolate chips and farro for a chewy bite. 
Chocolate chip cookies for breakfast it’s my kind of language. I mean, who doesn’t want to wake up to a warm soft cookie full of chocolate chips? Let’s not confuse these cookies with chocolate chip cookies or think these are the oatmeal cookies and I just added chocolate chips to them. No, these ones are chocolate chip breakfast cookies.
Yes, they do have oats. They also have applesauce. Some sugar in the raw. And farro.
If farro sounds like a foreign language to you, let me translate it for you.
Farro it’s a wheat like grain with a hearty flavor and a chewy, creamy texture. It has been used for centuries in Italy, only in the last couple of years has began to be found in the US stores. It’s a good substitute for rice, cracked wheat, wheat berries.
For these cookies I use pearl farro, given to me by the lovely people at Tuscan Fields.
A couple of weeks ago I applied for a scholarship to Eat Write Retreat, sponsored by Tuscan Fields. Along with other 49 other food bloggers I’m creating a unique recipe featuring this hearty grain.
In the past I’ve used farro in salads in even in risotto but this time I wanted something else. Something to fit my blog theme. At first I thought of making some bread, than the idea of muffins started to make room in the back of my mind but, but cookies knew how to talk me into making them.
These cookies turned out soft, more towards a cake muffin top. They are sweet, but not too sweet, packed with chocolate chips and farro. The farro gives the cookies a nutty flavor and a chewy bite, pairing great with the addition of the almond extract.
I ended up with 3 dozen of cookies. We enjoyed some not just for breakfast, but also as an afternoon snack or after dinner treat.
This is definitely not going to be my last time using farro in desserts, it’s just the beginning.
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Other cookie recipes you might enjoy
Mint chocolate muffin top cookies
Chocolate chip pumpkin muffin top cookies
Sending love your way,
Roxana
Farro sounds interesting. I went on a Eat Write Retrea website and it all sounds very interesting.
Yesssssss! Cookies for breakfast!
I have never thought of using Farro as an ingredient for cookies or dessert.. Nice idea 🙂
Cookies for breakfast sound perfect to me. What a creative use for farro!
I can’t wait to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing!
Mmm farro and chocolate?! Sounds interesting to me! I want one!
Yeah…I want to wake up to chocolate chip breakfast cookies every morning. They sound awesome!!!!
What are the nutrition stats on these? cals? fiber? protein? etc…
Hi Teresa,
I do not have a program to calculate the nutritional value.
Roxana
Wow! I love how you used farro in these cookies…so now we can eat them for breakfast! They look delicious, Roxana!
Uh, oh…if my family finds out there’s a chocolate chip breakfast cookie, they’ll want me to make these every week! They look SO good!!!
Yay! Healthy chocolate chip cookies for brekkie! Thank you for sharing information about farro, Roxanna. The applications in baking and cooking seem endless. Your breakfast cookies look soooo yummy. Thank you! Pinning…
Oh, geez…just misspelled your name with two “Ns”. My sincere apologies! Forgive me? 🙂 xo
No worries 🙂
Mmm…I love cookies for breakfast especially when they are healthy as these!
I cannot say no to a cookie in the morning. Yes please!
This is so interesting with farro! Can’t wait to try this and sneak some grains/protein into my kids’ treats! Maybe, if they are lucky, they will get cookies for breakfast! LOL!
Sooo scrumptious and healthy looking and sounding, Roxana.
Your recipe is a winner in the Ninja Baker’s book!
Thank you, too, for the intro to farro=)
Cookies for breakfast? Sign me up! These look so good, and I love the addition of farro. Yum!
I love this! I am all about breakfast cookies.
What a great idea! Love these as a healthy treat for breakfast!
Terrific idea! Who wouldn’t want to have a cookie for dessert? Especially one that is healthy for you. They look divine!
What great looking breakfast cookie. My son would do back flips if I let him eat cookies for breakfast so I really need to make these, I’m going to look for farro.
These are BRILLIANT Roxana! Breakfast + cookies and I’m a happy girl LOL.
These are incredible, Roxana! Yay – I can finally eat cookies for breakfast and not feel guilty!
Very fun and very yummy looking Roxanna!
Dessert for breakfast is necessary to have a happy, successful day. It’s true! So I’m all over these cookies.
And farro… that’s totally new to me! I’ll have to look into that. 🙂
My DS is in 4th grade and they eat a really late lunch, so they are encouraged to bring a (hopefully) healthy snack to tide them over. My son loves banana bread so I usually make it into mini muffins. This looks like a fun alternative! I don’t have a food processor (why am I suddenly seeing tons of recipes using food processors?) so I am wondering if I can just use my KitchenAide mixer? I’ve never heard of farro before so I’ll have to look around for some. Thanks so much for such a fun and healthy recipe!
Hi Melissa,
If you don’t have a food processor, you can crumble the flour and butter with your fingers and slowly, with a whisk/steardy spatula incorporate the rest of the ingredients.
Happy Baking,
Roxana
Cookie for breakfast…YES please! I have never tried Farro, okay I’ve never heard of it before, so I am intrigued 🙂 Thanks for sharing and have an awesome weekend – Lisa
Do you know if Farro can be found in any supermarket? (I live on the East Coast.) Or is there a substitute that could be used. Thanks!
Hi Linda,
You can find farro at Whole Foods or any other grocery stores that type. (I have Wegmans in my area) Or you can look for a Middle Eastern store around you.
Roxana