chocolate chip cookies
A few weeks ago, a post over at In Jennie’s Kitchen caught my eye. Jennifer posted about her best chocolate chip cookies, cookies whose development has been in the works for years. I certainly haven’t invested the time to perfect my own chocolate chip cookies, so I thought I’d give hers a try.
My husband keeps coming home from the store with refrigerated cookie dough, and I really want to break him of that habit. I’d much rather have some homemade dough in our freezer waiting to be baked. Hence, these cookies.
I followed Jennifer’s recipe to a tee except for the chocolate. Her recipe uses Guittard 55% chocolate discs in place of chocolate chips. Since none of the stores around here carry any chocolate discs, much less Guittard, I used Ghirardelli semisweet chocolate chips. I chose semisweet over bittersweet because…well, just because.
The verdict? These are delicious chocolate chip cookies. They’re best warm out of the oven, and I have confirmation of that from my taste-testing children. My daughter declared that these were, “not too hot but warm and melty and yummy!” And then she THANKED me. Yes, you heard it. She thanked me for making them. Compliments and politeness all in the same 30 second timespan.
If she keeps that up, the bag of frozen cookie dough balls may not stick around in our freezer very long.
Yum…I love a good chocolate chip cookie!
Oh my God… I could seriously go for one or two of those right now. Looks delicious! What kind of camera are you using?
Ah, nevermind. I read your photog section.
Saw your profile on food buzz. Glad I check out your wonderful blog. Look forward to following you here. Your cookies look great. Cheers!
C&C and Alexandria – Chocolate chip cookies are the best, aren’t they? Glad you found my site!
Alexandria – I think you found the answer, but let me know if I can answer any other questions.
Lazaro – Glad you’re here! Welcome!
Yes! Homemade chocolate chip cookies-the way to the heart!
Michael Pollan (“In Defense of Food”, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”) posits that junk food is okay if you make it yourself, from scratch.
This article from the NYT is about chocolate chip cookies and the original Toll House cookie recipe:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E0DE1431F93AA35754C0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=&emc=eta1
I usually use the recipe on a Ghirardelli wrapper I saved, adding macadamia nuts.
I’ve bought chocolate discs, in bulk from:
http://www.bulkfoods.com/products.asp
(follow the link under “Chocolates” to “Baking Drops/Coatings”
Great post.
These look great! I am always searching for a new chocolate chip cookie recipe. In fact, I may make these tonight!
Bob – Thanks for the tip on where to find the chocolate discs.
Jamie – Oh, you really should. They’re delicious.
oh my goodness, i couldn’t be happier to have found your blog! Thanks go out to @jenniferperillo for her RT on your wonderful blog. Your photography is just beautiful, and I can’t wait to bake these perfect-looking chocolate chip cookies. Thanks!
SweetFoodie – I’m so glad you found me, too! I love having new readers. 🙂
Do you know why I can’t pin your chocolate chip cookie recipe? I can pin your other recipes.
I’m not sure, really. When I try, it works for me.
I take it back — it looks like I can pin it, but then it won’t let me. I’d bet it’s because it’s an older post. I have a more recent post you may prefer — try this one: https://www.merrygourmet.com/2012/11/on-finding-the-oreos-and-a-recipe-classic-chocolate-chip-cookies/