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Haven't posted in a while, so I thought I'd break the absentminded silence with a recipe.
I've been looking around for a definitive chocolate chip cookie recipe for a while. Everyone's got their preferences: me personally, I like a slightly chewy, slightly crispy-at-edges cookie, moderately sized, with a medium amount of good quality bittersweet chocolate chips, and a dough that tastes of butter, vanilla, and brown sugar in equal measure. I'm agnostic on the subject of nuts/no nuts, but if they're there I prefer pecans to walnuts.
So this latest batch...this turned out pretty damn good. I adapted it from the bag of Trader Joe's chocolate chips - which, by the way, Trader Joe's chocolate chips are SHOCKINGLY good, especially considering the price, which is less than most supermarket brands. I used to swear by Ghirardelli, but seriously, these are like half the price and may actually be better. Further investigation suggests that this is because TJ's gets their chips semi-secretly from fancy chocolatier Callebaut, in a similar manner to the way they sometimes get expensive wines for crazy-cheap because premium wineries can't afford to sell all their product for that year under their own brand name.
Also, I gave one to a fellow grad student yesterday and a couple hours later I got this email:
( I don't actually think they're THAT good. But still, invoking the Cookie Monster, that's pretty high praise. )
I've been looking around for a definitive chocolate chip cookie recipe for a while. Everyone's got their preferences: me personally, I like a slightly chewy, slightly crispy-at-edges cookie, moderately sized, with a medium amount of good quality bittersweet chocolate chips, and a dough that tastes of butter, vanilla, and brown sugar in equal measure. I'm agnostic on the subject of nuts/no nuts, but if they're there I prefer pecans to walnuts.
So this latest batch...this turned out pretty damn good. I adapted it from the bag of Trader Joe's chocolate chips - which, by the way, Trader Joe's chocolate chips are SHOCKINGLY good, especially considering the price, which is less than most supermarket brands. I used to swear by Ghirardelli, but seriously, these are like half the price and may actually be better. Further investigation suggests that this is because TJ's gets their chips semi-secretly from fancy chocolatier Callebaut, in a similar manner to the way they sometimes get expensive wines for crazy-cheap because premium wineries can't afford to sell all their product for that year under their own brand name.
Also, I gave one to a fellow grad student yesterday and a couple hours later I got this email:
Re: COOKIE
That was the best homemade cookie I've ever had, thank you so much! The texture, the size, the flavor--everything about it was SO GOOD! If the cookie monster ate one he'd probably tear up at its perfection. Seriously.
( I don't actually think they're THAT good. But still, invoking the Cookie Monster, that's pretty high praise. )
