I have been a lover of the chocolate chip cookie for as long as I can remember. I have avid memories of when I was little and my parents would take me (yes, it was a time when I was their only child... this bliss only lasted about 4 years before my brother came along) out to the shopping mall where there was a Famous Amos bakery and the smell would waft throughout the mall and the shopping trip would invariably end with me begging for a bag of cookies because I couldn't take the smell teasing me anymore. When I got into baking, one of the first things I decided that I wanted to learn how to bake was a chocolate chip cookie. Since then, I've tried a lot of recipes and am still looking out for that perfect chocolate chip recipe.
I came across this one on Joy of Baking and decided to try it out for the Christmas season.
Start with 1 cup of butter, beating it until it is fluffy. Then add 3/4 cup of white sugar and 3/4 cup of light brown sugar (firmly packed) and cream together. Add 2 large eggs and 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract. In a separate bowl, mix 2 1/4 cups of flour, 1 tsp of baking soda and 1/2 tsp of salt. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture.
About half way through, add 1 1/2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Give it a mix.
If you want, you can also add a cup of chopped nuts. I decided to add walnuts and crushed them first in a zip lock bag.
After mixing it all together, you batter will look nice and chunky, like this:
Drop half a teaspoon full of batter onto a cookie sheet.
Bake at 180 degrees for about 10 minutes or until the cookies have a nice golden brown edge. As they cool the cookies got a nice crisp to them.
And then enjoy with a tall glass of cold milk :D
Overall, I found this to be an easy recipe, especially if you're a first time baker of chocolate chip cookies. Taste-wise they are pretty moreish but I think my search for the ultimate recipe still continues.
In the meanwhile, make your own! The recipe can be found here.
I need to learn baking from you!!!!!
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