On Monday I had nothing better to do than lounge around & die from the heat (until I turned on the AC just for my lonesome). No work, no class, just lounge. So I made cookies. I tired the oft spoken about Blue Chip Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe & it was pretty good. I usually flip flop between the Williams-Sonoma & the flour bag recipe. & lately I've been weighing my options. Last time I tried a recipe from Sugar Plum it was pretty good. I just make different kinds of chocolate chips depending on my mood, either crunchier cookies or cake like ones. Monday was a crunchy cookie day. Here's the recipe, courtesy of my wonderful book, The Great Book of Chocolate by David Lebovitz. It makes me drool every time I flip through.
Blue Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies
1/2 cup (100 grams) granulated sugar
1/2 cup (120 grams) firmly packed brown sugar
8 tablespoons (1 stick) (115 grams) unsalted butter, cold, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups (200 grams) semisweet chocolate chips (I use milk chocolate, I like it sweet)
1 cup (130 grams) walnuts or pecans, toasted & chopped
Adjust the oven rack to the top third of the oven and preheat to 300 degrees F. Line 3 baking sheets with parchment paper.
Beat the sugars and butter together until smooth. Mix in the egg, vanilla, and baking soda.
Stir together the flour and salt, then mix them into the batter. Mix in the chocolate chips and nuts.
Scoop the cookie dough into 2-tablespoon balls and place 8 balls, spaced 4 inches apart, on each of the baking sheets.
Bake for 18 minutes, or until pale golden brown. Remove from oven and cool on a wire rack.
Let me tell you, these are pretty good cookies, at first I was skeptical about them cooking at 300 degrees and for 18 minutes (well, I halved the size of the cookies and cooking time) but that's still a lower temperature than I'm used to. These cookies seem like they're goopy when you take them out but after cooling a bit, they look like store bought cookies. Lovely, I'll make em again sometime. Next thing on my list though, Pumpkin Walnut... CUPCAKES. Yeah, the cookies were such a hit during the holiday season that I'm going to try Williams-Sonoma's cupcake version.
& no, no pictures, I didn't think about it at the time & by now, they're looking less than camera worthy.
