Can I substitute chocolate chips for cacao nibs in a cookie recipe? I found a recipe for Chocolate Brownie Cookies and am wondering whether I can substitute semi-sweet chocolate chips for the 3 TB cacao nibs? I'm going to be serving this at a party so I don't want a bitter taste.

Chocolate Brownie Cookies Recipe
3 cups gluten-free powdered sugar
¾ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 large egg whites
1 large egg
4 oz. bittersweet chocolate, chopped
3 tablespoons cocoa nibs 

I saw that this question was asked previously but the answers all assumed that the bitter taste of the nibs was preferred. I tried to post a comment but don't have 50 points!
You can.

It will be a different cookie, but chocolate chips are conventional in chocolate cookies -- more so than cocoa nibs in fact.  I assume they're simply stirred in to the mix after the other ingredients.  The texture of the surrounding cookie (and the cooking time) may be affected a little, but only within normal batch-to-batch variation.  

If the bittersweet chocolate is added in the same way (as opposed to melted), I'd just scale that up. You may instead want to use a contrasting chocolate.  You could even replace the nibs with chopped nuts.