Showing posts with label Cookie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cookie. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2011

Chocolate Chip Cookies to Die For

!±8± Chocolate Chip Cookies to Die For

What diet? Who ever heard of abstaining from chocolate chip cookies? I can detect the aroma around almost every corner I turn. The whole world seems to conspire against me. Every body's baking them. Every skinny soul I meet is consuming them by the dozen. I figure just one, or even two, or (heaven forbid) even three, won't hurt my calorie counting soul.

I slowly sink my salivating teeth into one chocolate chip cookie. So light, so crisp and chewy, I feel my taste buds go totally berserk. I shut my eyes, savor the sweetness, and let the little chocolate chips roll around inside my mouth. Tantalizing, tickling my taste buds, they take over my chocolate craving soul, mind and body.

How can anyone resist these little critters? What is life worth if one can't indulge a little every now and then? I succumb graciously. If I must lose the battle of the bulge, I must do so with dignity. And relish every moment of it - heart and soul.

Chocolate chip cookies - the words roll magically off my tongue. Who ever invented them deserves a Nobel peace prize. If there were more of them around the world, there would be fewer wars. They would make the greatest peace offerings. You could win over entire battalions of your enemies. They could become your slaves for life. Hostilities would end. Negotiations would flourish. Enemies would become your friends for life.

As is obvious, I am an acknowledged slave of the chocolate chip cookie. I can't bake them myself; I would probably consume the cookie dough before it even hits the oven. And as for those little pieces of chocolate chips, I doubt if they would reach the baking tray. So wisdom prevails and I let my mother, aunt, cousin, friend, anyone, bake them while I become the self appointed official taster. I consider myself quite the chocolate chip gourmet. I have dozens of chocolate chip cookie recipes at my disposal.

I can guide the baker on the best recipes, ingredients, baking tips and temperature setting, although this doesn't always go down well with the baker. However, I have collected these recipes with great enthusiasm, dedication and commitment. I wish some one would appreciate my efforts. I'm even willing to share some of these recipes with other enthusiasts.

Here goes one chocolate chip recipe that I really like. You will need:

o Unsalted Butter - 225 g
o Granulated sugar - 150 g
o Brown sugar - 160 g
o Eggs - 2
o Vanilla extract - 1 ½ teaspoons
o Flour - 295 g
o Baking soda - 1 teaspoon
o Salt - ½ teaspoon
o Semisweet chocolate chips - 270 g

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Cream the butter. Add white and brown sugars and beat until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Incorporate vanilla smoothly.

Combine baking soda, flour and salt in another bowl. Combine egg mixture with dry ingredients until smooth. Add chocolate chips half way through. Cover and refrigerate till firm. Meanwhile, line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop around two tablespoons of dough at a time on to baking sheet. Bake for around 12 - 14 minute until golden brown around edges.

Cool them. Consume them. Let the experience totally overwhelm you. You will never be the same again.


Chocolate Chip Cookies to Die For

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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Giant amber dent cookie recipe

3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature 1 cup light or dark brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 large egg 1 large egg yolk 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips Mix butter and sugars until blended. Add egg, yolk, vanilla, and salt. Turn mixer to medium-high speed and beat until light and fluffy (1.5 to 2 minutes). In a separate bowl, whisk together flour and baking soda. Gradually incorporate dry ingredients into wet ingredients. Add chocolate chips. Chill dough for 30 minutes. Roll 1/4 cup blobs of dough into balls and place on parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake for 17 minutes at 325 degrees F. Allow cookies to cool on the pan for 10 minutes and on the parchment for another 5 minutes.

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Friday, November 4, 2011

Chocolate Chip Cookies - How We Love America's Favorite Cookie!

!±8± Chocolate Chip Cookies - How We Love America's Favorite Cookie!

Don't you love it when your kids are getting ready for bed and you hear, "By the way Mom - our class party is tomorrow, and I signed up for three dozen chocolate chip cookies!"

Cookies are America's most popular dessert, and for all those late night, emergency cookie baking sessions, or almost any cookie occasion, about half the cookies baked are chocolate chip.

Did you ever wonder what chocolate chip cookies and President John F. Kennedy have in common? Perhaps not, but here are some historical chocolate chip cookie tidbits.

There are an estimated 2,000 varieties of this popular cookie, from chocolate chip banana to white chocolate chip raspberry, but the most popular is the Toll House cookie recipe seen on the back of every Nestlé chocolate chip package.

In 1930, Ruth Wakefield and her husband, Kenneth, established the Toll House Inn, near Boston, Massachusetts. Their tourist lodge was housed in a building (circa 1709) where, at one time, travelers paid their tolls, changed horses and enjoyed home-cooked meals.

The Toll House Inn was well-known for Ruth's cooking, especially her desserts. She often sent travelers on their way with a plate of her delicious cookies. One otherwise uneventful day in 1937, Ruth added small chunks of a Nestlé's Semisweet Yellow Label Chocolate bar to her butter cookie dough.

Results? Instant success!

The story goes that Ruth received a lifetime supply of chocolate in exchange for her recipe, which Nestle' printed on the back of their semisweet chocolate bar packages. The cookie recipe was so popular that Nestlé began marketing chocolate chips to be used especially for cookies.

Over the years, the popular Toll House Inn included many well-known guests, including - guess who? - President John F. Kennedy.

Almost a century after Ruth dropped that first piece of chocolate into her cookies, every bag of Nestle chocolate chips in North America continues to have Wakefield's original, Toll House recipe printed on the back.

Just like Ruth's recipe, all basic chocolate chip recipes call for flour, sugar, butter or margarine, baking powder and/or baking soda, eggs, vanilla, and chocolate chips. The taste and texture varies with recipe. Some chocolate chip cookies bake puffy and others flat. The easiest to decorate are flat.

Decorate chocolate chip cookies? Yes, these are especially unique for Jenny and Jeff's school parties - that is, if you aren't too tired after your all night baking session! Chocolate chip cookies are tasty enough without icing, but a little decoration will make you the most popular mom in the class!

Decorated Chocolate Chip Pan Cookie

Instead of the more time-consuming individual cookies, the chocolate chip pan cookie can be a life-saver when you've awakened at midnight, realizing you forgot to bake those cookies for tomorrow's first grade celebration of "National Play Doh Day."

After you bake the cookie, pipe on a balloon (royal icing border filled in with gel icings) and message like "Happy Imagining!"

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bouquets

While chocolate chip cookies don't lend themselves to the fancier, polished cookie bouquets, they can be very cute and cheerful - exactly the thing for 85-year-old Aunt Myrna, who married her yoga instructor, or Cousin Jim who just graduated from bungee-jumping class - with flying colors!

Here's one idea:

Cookies and Milk Bouquet

1 batch of Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough

Lollipop sticks (rolled paper, not plastic) of varying heights

Royal icing

Preheat oven to 375° F. Roll cookie dough into 2-inch balls. Arrange four balls on an ungreased cookie sheet. Insert a lollipop stick into each ball. Press dough down slightly.

Bake for 13 to 15 minutes or until the edges of the cookies are crisp. Cool on baking sheet for 1 minute; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Once cooled (about 20 minutes), decorate your cookies with a decorating bag and royal icing. Use icing sparingly so as not to detract from the wholesome cookie taste. For the "cookies and milk" theme, you might want to add white icing milk moustaches.

After the icing hardens, wrap each cookie in cellophane and tie with a ribbon. Arrange in a mug (for the milk!) that matches your theme.

If you're interested in creating the beautiful cookie bouquets made from sugar cookies you see selling for to , you can learn how from classes, books and videos, such as the "Cookie Decorating Made Easy" Video Books that this reader used:

"Hi Michael! I bought your cookie video books on Friday and made cookies with my kids on Saturday. It was the funnest time and the cookies turned out beautifully."

Chris B.

Las Vegas, NV

One last tip. If you want to be the mom with the most original cookies, bake your chocolate chip cookies in various shapes. Just fit a large decorating tip to a pastry bag, fill with your dough, and pipe out drop flowers or other shapes onto your cookie sheet.


Chocolate Chip Cookies - How We Love America's Favorite Cookie!

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