Best Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
  • Gingersnap
    Resident stylistic consultant
    • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
    • 24058
    #1

    Best Chocolate Chip Cookies.

    Now, even an indifferent homemade cookie is superior to any package cookie but these really are awesome.

    Unlike a lot recipes in this category which depend on macadamia nuts or special chocolates or other exotic ingredients or techniques to achieve "best", this recipe uses ordinary items.

    This is not my own recipe (but it will be now). The only changes I made were to add 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar and to leave the dough in the fridge for 24 hours (you will have to extend the cook time if you do this).

    Leaving the dough alone for 24 hours (or more) is my personal "secret" trick for a lot of cookies. It's amazing how this simple change elevates a recipe. If you do this, the dough will be hard and crumbly but don't be discouraged! Just get in there with a knife to break it up. If you are doing a lot, just roll the dough into a large cylinder before chilling. By "large", I mean like 4 inches. Short and fat. Cut a good inch and half off and divide in 4 and bake pointy side up.

    You do not have to chill this dough to think it's awesome. It will be awesome right away but it will be even more awesome if you chill it.

    All Recipes
    "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."
    Tags: None
    • phillygirl
      Not superior, just kind
      • Wednesday, October 2, 2013
      • 19840
      #2
      I generally chill my dough, after forming the balls, for an hour and find that makes a difference.
      Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
      Robert Southwell, S.J.

        Comment

        • Celeste Chalfonte
          apostate
          • Saturday, October 5, 2013
          • 27897
          #3
          Originally posted by phillygirl View Post
          I generally chill my dough, after forming the balls, for an hour and find that makes a difference.
          I generally eat the dough right out of the package.
          "Since the historic ruling, the Lovings have become icons for equality. Mildred released a statement on the 40th anniversary of the ruling in 2007: 'I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, Black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.'." - Mildred Loving (Loving v. Virginia)

            Comment

            • phillygirl
              Not superior, just kind
              • Wednesday, October 2, 2013
              • 19840
              #4
              Originally posted by Celeste Chalfonte View Post
              I generally eat the dough right out of the package.
              Yeah..that too.
              Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live...
              Robert Southwell, S.J.

                Comment

                • Novaheart
                  Guardian of civilization
                  • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
                  • 6070
                  #5
                  I buy them at the health food store. $1.39 each, no high fructose corn syrup, crisp, absolutely delicious.
                  The year's at the spring
                  And day's at the morn;
                  Morning's at seven;
                  The hill-side's dew-pearled;
                  The lark's on the wing;
                  The snail's on the thorn:
                  God's in his heaven—
                  All's right with the world!

                    Comment

                    • Gingersnap
                      Resident stylistic consultant
                      • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
                      • 24058
                      #6
                      Yeah, well mine just have what's in the recipe so no worries there.

                      I distinguish between chilling and just leaving it for 24 - 72 hours and I should have made that clearer. Most cookie doughs benefit a lot from a 24 hour rest time. Aside from the handling and cooking aspects, doughs just get a real flavor boost from resting.

                      I guess it's the same thing as soups being better the next day. I normally leave a sourdough for up to a week for that reason.
                      "Alexa, slaughter the fatted calf."

                        Comment

                        • Adam
                          The way to a woman's heart is through her taste buds.
                          • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
                          • 16885
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Celeste Chalfonte View Post
                          I generally eat the dough right out of the package.
                          Guilty as charged.
                          It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
                          In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
                          Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
                          Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

                            Comment

                            • scott
                              Go-to Guru
                              • Tuesday, October 1, 2013
                              • 15799
                              #8
                              Originally posted by Gingersnap View Post
                              Yeah, well mine just have what's in the recipe so no worries there.

                              I distinguish between chilling and just leaving it for 24 - 72 hours and I should have made that clearer. Most cookie doughs benefit a lot from a 24 hour rest time. Aside from the handling and cooking aspects, doughs just get a real flavor boost from resting.

                              I guess it's the same thing as soups being better the next day. I normally leave a sourdough for up to a week for that reason.
                              Melanie's chili, goulash, and my sloppy joe's too! They are always better the next day.
                              "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
                              -John Locke

                              "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
                              -Newman

                              "Grievance groups are playing King of the Hill."
                              -Newman

                                Comment

                                • Celeste Chalfonte
                                  apostate
                                  • Saturday, October 5, 2013
                                  • 27897
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by scott View Post
                                  Melanie's chili, goulash, and my sloppy joe's too! They are always better the next day.
                                  I may be in love.
                                  "Since the historic ruling, the Lovings have become icons for equality. Mildred released a statement on the 40th anniversary of the ruling in 2007: 'I am proud that Richard’s and my name is on a court case that can help reinforce the love, the commitment, the fairness, and the family that so many people, Black or white, young or old, gay or straight, seek in life. I support the freedom to marry for all. That’s what Loving, and loving, are all about.'." - Mildred Loving (Loving v. Virginia)

                                    Comment

                                    • Michele
                                      Senior Member
                                      • Wednesday, October 2, 2013
                                      • 13964
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by scott View Post
                                      Melanie's chili, goulash, and my sloppy joe's too! They are always better the next day.
                                      I'm definitely in love.
                                      May we raise children who love the unloved things - the dandelion, the worm, the spiderlings.
                                      Children who sense the rose needs the thorn and run into rainswept days the same way they turn towards the sun...
                                      And when they're grown and someone has to speak for those who have no voice,
                                      may they draw upon that wilder bond, those days of tending tender things and be the one.

                                        Comment

                                        Previous template Next
                                        Working...