On Tuesday night Axes’ daycare Child Space will turn into Wild Space for a Halloween Party. We’re pretty excited. I made chocolate chip cookies with Orange and Black morsels for the event. I adapted the Tollhouse recipe with hints from my good friend Catherine. I also subbed 1/3 whole wheat flour for all purpose and subbed in 1/3 agave syrup for the white sugar to reduce the sugar content and increase the liquid content to hydate the bran in the whole wheat. Axes has also declared that they are haunted. There is no food science principle behind that. Pure whimsy!

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 package vanilla pudding mix
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/4 cup raw agave syrup
• 1 capful milk
• 1 Tablespoon vanilla paste
• 2 large eggs
• 2 cups (10-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Halloween Morsels

Follow package instructions, although I did only bake the first test batch for 10 minutes, as I like mine a little underbaked. I’ll bake them all the way for the event, though. I also find cookies turn out better if you refrigerate the dough overnight.