Three Delicious Cookie Recipes - Chocolate Chip Heaven
The most baked cookie of all time is the Chocolate Chip Cookie. Seven billion chocolate chip cookies are eaten annually. Specifically, the Toll House Cookie recipe right from the Toll House Morsels (chocolate chips) bag. It's a great recipe.
But I found an article in an old Better Homes and Gardens magazine called "Chocolate Chip Cookies - 3 Ways". Here are the three recipes along with the answer to why some cookies are soft and some are crispy! Our personal favorite is the Thin & Crispy.
Photos are mostly courtesy of Flickr.
Soft or Crispy - What's the Secret?
It's all in the sugar and the fat!
Also, a cookie made with brown sugar only will be softer than a cookie make with a combination of white and brown sugar.
The Best Basic Cookie Recipe
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
1/2 cup shortening1/2 cup butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate pieces
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
In a bowl beat shortening and butter on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking soda and salt; beat until combined. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Beat in as much flour as you can with the mixer. With a wooden spoon, stir in the remaining flour. Stir in the chocolate pieces and the nuts.
Drop by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minuets or until edges are browned. Cool on a wire rack. Makes 60 cookies.
A Delicious Variety of Chocolate Chip Cookies
Some of these have recipes - click on the photo to check!
"Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap."
Robert Fulghum in 1987 at Middlebury College
Who knew there were so many varieties?
Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cookies and Milk - Yum!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Coconut Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownie
Chocolate Pudding Choco-Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake
"Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!
~Author Unknown"
Let's Vote - Chocolate Chip Cookies - Soft or Crispy?
Somebody once said, " A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand." Now, that's my kind of diet!
So soft or crispy...what's your fave?
Thin and Crispy Recipe
Preheat Oven to 375 degrees
1 cup butter3/4 cup packed brown sugar
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 cups semisweet chocolate pieces
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
In a bowl beat shortening and butter on medium to high speed for 30 seconds. Add brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking soda and salt; beat until combined. Beat in egg and vanilla. Beat in as much flour as you can with the mixer. With a wooden spoon, stir in the remaining flour. Stir in the chocolate pieces and the nuts.
Drop by rounded teaspoons 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are browned. Cool on a wire rack. Makes 60 cookies.
Sterling Silver Chocolate Chip Cookie Charm
Masterfully crafted by Silvermoon
Can you ever have too many varieties?
More delicious looking cookies featuring chocolate chips. Did you know that broken cookies have no calories? Yep, that's correct!
Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake
Peanut Butter and Ghirardelli Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
Raspberry Chocolate Chip Thumbprints
Banana Walnut Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Tofu Chocolate Chip Cookies
Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Coconut Cookies
Soft and Cakelike Recipe
Preheat Oven to 375 degrees
1/2 cup shortening1-1/2 cups packed brown sugar
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 8-0z. carton dairy sour cream
1-1/2 cups semisweet chocolate pieces
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
In a bowl beat shortening and brown sugar on medium to high speed until combined. Add eggs and vanilla; beat until combined. Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Alternately add flour mixture and sour cream to shorening mixture, beating after each addition. With a wooden spoon, stir in chocolate pieces and nuts.
Drop by rounded teaspooons 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are browned. Cool on wire rack. Makes 60 cookies.
A Couple of Cookie Baking Basics
Important Rules of Thumb
Ever get a recipe all finished and in the oven only to discover that you've left out an ingredient? Not a good feeling.Well, I'll be big about it and admit that it has happened to me. But not anymore. Why?
1. Because NOW I always measure my ingredients before I start combining them. Easy to do and actually faster.
2. Another thing essential to perfectly baked cookies is to preheat the oven. Any food that has a leavening agent in it - baking soda, baking powder or yeast - should never go in a cold oven.
3. On the other hand, always place your cookie dough on cold baking sheets.
The Original Toll House Cookie Story
Most everyone knows the story of Toll House Cookies but just in case you don't here's the skinny on it:A lady named Ruth Wakefield and her husband owned the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts in the 1930's. She enjoyed cooking for her guests and one day she decided to make a chocolate butter cookie to serve.
She had a chocolate bar and decided to chop it into little pieces and add it to the dough, thinking that the chocolate would melt and the cookies would be chocolate through and through.
Well, the chocolate didn't melt but the cookies were delicious and the toll house cookie was born.
To read all about it and get the actual original recipe follow this link: The Toll House Story/Recipe
Clever Cookie Jars
Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies
DrThunder 88's Special Recipe
Giant chocolate chip cookie recipe
3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature 1 cup light or dark brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg 1 large egg yolk 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips Mix butter and sugars until blended. Add egg, yolk, vanilla, and salt. Turn mixer to medium-high speed and beat until light and fluffy (1.5 to 2 minutes). In a separate bowl, whisk together flour and baking soda. Gradually incorporate dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Add chocolate chips. Chill dough for 30 minutes. Roll 1/4 cup blobs of dough into balls and place on parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for 17 minutes at 325 degrees F. Allow cookies to cool on the pan for 10 minutes and on the parchment for another 5 minutes.
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An Urban Legend - The $250 Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe
- A 1948 Massachusetts cookbook has a recipe for a $25 Fudge Cake that was supposedly circulated by a woman who was charged the exhorbitant sum of $25 by the chef of a railroad.
- In the 1960's a woman claimed that the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City charged her $350 for the recipe for their Red Velvet Cake.
- In 1970 the same story circulated only this time it was Mrs. Field's chocolate chip cookie recipe
- A woman had dined at the Neiman Marcus Cafe in Dallas, Texas and asked for the recipe of a delicious cookie she tried. She was charged $250 for the recipe when she thought was supposed to be $2.50. She decided to take revenge by giving the recipe free to anyone who wanted it.
Here's the kicker, though (also according to Snopes):
* There is not, and has never been, a Neiman Marcus cafe in Dallas. The three Neiman Marcus restaurants in Dallas all have different names.
* There was no such thing as The Neiman Marcus Cookie until the company decided to produce one as a result of this "hoax".
* Neiman Marcus never sells recipes from its restaurants. They are given free upon request.
The Famous Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe Hoax
Here's the recipe - hoax or not!
Ingredients1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
1 cup light brown sugar
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 large egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1-3/4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1-1/2 teaspoons instant espresso coffee powder
1-1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Cream the butter with the sugars using an electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy (approximately 30 seconds)
2. Beat in the egg and the vanilla extract for another 30 seconds.
3. In a mixing bowl, sift together the dry ingredients and beat into the butter mixture at low speed for about 15 seconds. Stir in the espresso coffee powder and chocolate chips.
4. Using a 1 ounce scoop or a 2 tablespoon measure, drop cookie dough onto a greased cookie sheet about 3 inches apart. Gently press down on the dough with the back of a spoon to spread out into a 2 inch circle. Bake for about 20 minutes or until nicely browned around the edges. Bake a little longer for a crispier cookie.
Yield: 2 dozen cookies
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There Are No Bad Chocolate-Chip Cookies!
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by Nathan P. Boyd
Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies
It's from Barbara Kingsolver's new book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life and here's the recipe (check out the book, below, too):
ZUCCHINI CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
(Makes about two dozen)
Combine in a large bowl:
1 egg, beaten
½ cup butter, softened
½ cup brown sugar
1/3 cup honey
1 tbsp. vanilla extract
Combine in large bowl.
Combine in a separate, small bowl and blend into liquid mixture:
1 cup white flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
½ tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
¼ tsp cinnamon
¼ tsp nutmeg
Stir these into other ingredients, mix well.
1 cup finely shredded zucchini
12 oz chocolate chips
Drop by spoonful onto greased baking sheet, and flatten with the back of a spoon. Bake at 350°, 10 to 15 minutes.
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Susan52
I love this lens! (How did I miss it before??) I'm a Toll House recipe lover, but I wouldn't pass up a chocolate chip cookie even if it were old and stale. Well, maybe then but it would have to be pretty old and pretty stale! Love the cookie charm! Posted July 13, 2008 |
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enslavedbyfaeries
I can't wait to give your recipes a try. My chocolate chip cookies ALWAYS turn out flat and ugly so I gave up making them long ago. I love anything with zucchini so I think that will the first on my list, -wish me luck! :) Posted July 10, 2008 |
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coastingalong
Finally found that great soft and cakelike recipe. So naturally I gave it a try and whola!!! My day is made. Posted May 28, 2008 |
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Janet21
Great lens! I have lensrolled it to my Novelty Cookie Jars lens. :) Posted May 24, 2008 |
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KimGiancaterino
Delicious lens... my absolute favorite cookies in the world! Posted May 23, 2008 |
