Chocolate Chip Woes…
I *love* chocolate chip cookies. DH is not a fan. I don’t care for nuts in most of my baked goods, though in general I do like nuts. DH, if he is going to eat chocolate chip cookies prefers nuts in them. Add this all up and I’m guessing it has been at the very least 3 years since I last baked chocolate chip cookies.
I used to have a recipe we got in 7th grade home ec class that was really good, but I have no idea where it is (likely at my mom’s somewhere). I know my aunt Karen makes a recipe that I like and it even has nuts in it, but she didn’t submit that one to the church cookbook. Since I pulled out the church cookbook I checked the recipes in there and none were submitted by people from whom I recall having a chocolate chip cookie. I also have a really great recipe from my neighbor when I was growing up, but it is a bit more involved than I was going for - it calls for 3 different types of chocolate chips in them and makes a very large batch. So, when the urge hits and the weather is still cool enough to run the oven, what is a girl to do when she wants chocolate chip cookies? She uses the recipe on the bag of chocolate chips!
The photo is the tale of a bad chocolate chip cookie recipe. I didn’t have nestle chips, I had the fancy ghirardelli semi-sweet chips. The recipe was AWFUL! I baked two sheets and they turned out like the cookie on the right - super flat and a large diameter. That also resulted in a cookie that is nearly too hard to eat unless soaked in milk for a long time. After two pans like that I decided to add some more flour to the dough before baking the other two sheets. That resulted in the cookie on the left. It was an improvement, but they are still quite hard cookies.
So, if you have a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe that you can share, please do so! I want to bake another batch here before the weather gets too warm for me to run the oven. You can either leave it in a comment here or post to your blog and leave a comment with a link to your post. I would be most appreciative!
