untanglingknots.com: Chocolate Chip Cookies

by Karla ° Friday, September 28, 2007

If I owned a recipe book, it would include recipes with directions like:

Remove from box. Heat. Serve. Worry about dishes tomorrow.

But I don’t own a recipe book because only knowing how to create two things that are actually edible from scratch isn't exactly taxing on the long term memory center of my brain.

Below is my self proclaimed Best Cookies Ever recipe. Cookies this simple and this tasty should not be kept a secret.

We like our cookies big for the simple fact that putting three giant cookies on your plate makes you feel way less gluttonous than eating six regular size cookies.

This recipe makes about 35 large-ish cookies.

Chocolate Chip Cookies:

1½ cups of butter (or margarine), softened
½ cup of firmly packed brown sugar
¾ cup of sugar
3 eggs
3 ¾ cups of pastry flour
2 tsp of baking soda
2 packages of (300g) Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips

I have tried the el cheapo route on this recipe with no name chocolate chips and may I suggest if you are going to try these cookies to spring for the good stuff, like Hershey’s. The difference is notable.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Combine the sugars and butter and mix with an electric mixer. Add the eggs one at a time and continue to mix until well blended.

Add the flour and baking soda to the butter mixture and stir until blended. Mix in the chocolate chips.

Drop a tablespoon of batter for each cookie on an ungreased baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.

Remove from oven, barely touch your dinner, and eat cookies instead.

Mark has a particularly soft spot for cookies. If you have a great recipe, I would love for you to share it with me.

Please bear in mind that I am severely culinarily challenged and am absolutely not capable of following a recipe with more ingredients than the number of fingers on my hands.

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Comments:

I have a serious chocolate chip cookie craving now. And I was lucky enough to try the homemade whole wheat pizza once, and it is delicious. You can't even tell it's good for you ;)

Posted by H : September 28, 2007

Hi Karla,

This is the most amazing cookie recipe out there ! If your not a nut fan they taste great too if you choose to leave them out:)

NEIMAN-MARCUS COOKIES
(Recipe may be halved)

2 cups butter
24 oz. chocolate chips
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
2 cups sugar
1 8 oz. Hershey Bar (grated)
5 cups blended oatmeal
4 eggs
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp vanilla
3 cups chopped nuts (your choice)

Measure oatmeal, and blend in a blender to a fine powder.
Cream the butter and both sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix together
with flour, oatmeal, salt, baking powder, and soda. Add chocolate
chips, Hershey Bar, and nuts. Roll into balls, and place two inches apart on a cookie sheet.

Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees. Makes 112 cookies.

Posted by Anonymous : September 28, 2007

Do you mean a cookie recipe or any old recipe?

Posted by Gina : September 28, 2007

I own recipe books and I NEVER use them. So overrated!

The ones you posted sound delicious.

Posted by M : September 28, 2007

mmmm! Lora, those sound delish!

I was thinking cookie recipes Gina, but if you have any for tasty dishes you think I would like, send 'em on over.

Posted by karla : September 28, 2007

Ok I am for SURE going to try the cookie recipe this weekend because the hubby is out of town. therefore I can eat them ALL and nobody will be here to witness it!! Ahh FREEDOM! : )

Posted by Jen : September 28, 2007

I'll leave a excellent and fairly simple recipe for cookies on my blog, plus a great one which is so simple for a soup!!!

Your son looks wonderful :) The pictures look great of him!

Posted by Unknown : September 30, 2007

Hey, Karla! I tried your pizza dough recipe this weekend. It was a big hit! I'm not normally a "kitchen person", but I'm trying to grown out of that. So, anyway, the kids got a big kick out of all things dough-related. They thought it was totally cool that it gets bigger after awhile. And everyone loved how it tasted. Thanks!

Posted by Jules : October 01, 2007

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