I LOST my chocolate chip cookie recipe....

[Housekeeper]

It was the best recipe I've ever found. Crispy but not hard. Held it's shape when baked (didn't spread all over the pan). Good flavor. Even my MIL asks for my chocolate chip cookies...and THAT never happens, trust me :-D I made them last weekend and went to make a batch today and can't find it! I've looked all over the kitchen, even under the bread machine and the microwave...

So....help a sister out....What's YOUR favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe?

[SheWoff]

Here is my favorite. They are chewy and don't get hard like some do.

She


Chocolate chip cookies

1 1/2 cups brown sugar
3/4 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup walnuts (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix brown sugar, butter, vanilla, and eggs in large bowl until well blended. Stir in remaining ingredients. Drop by Tablespoons onto lightly greased pan. Bake in preheated oven 10-12 minutes or until lightly brown.

[Saul Mine]

Once I was hosting a birthday party for a lady who was very fond of chocolate chip cookies. So I mixed up a batch of dough and molded it into one big cookie in a pizza pan. Then I warmed the bottom of a one pound chocolate kiss over the stove and stuck it in the center of the big cookie. It was ... well received.

[Emily]

I use the one on the back of the Nestle's chocolate chips package but only bake for about 6 minutes - just until they aren't shiny anymore and I can just see some browning on the edges - then let them cool on the cookie sheet.
EVERYONE loves them and begs me to make more. They are very moist.
Not crispy - like the ones you speak of so not sure how that would happen.

The trick to my way of doing it is not letting them dry out by cooking them the full time. By the time they cool enough on the pan they are cooked just right.

I was running into the problem when I did it according to their directions on the package, where by the time they were cooled enough to take off the pan (and not fall apart) they had over cooked on the cookie sheet and were too crisp and dried out. So I started experimenting (this was when I was young and making a perfect cc cookie was paramount to making 'it' as a cook)

I finally realized it wasn't the ingredients as much as it was the length of time cooked.

[Meemur]

This is the old SOAR database.

http://www.recipesource.com/

Over the years, I've wanted to recreate recipes from my childhood, and the original recipes were long gone, along with the relatives who made them.

http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/desserts/cookies/24/rec2410.html

Then I found this database. Amazing! I not only found a lot of those old recipes, but I got ideas for things to try on a limited budget.

Perhaps you'll be able to locate your cookie recipe.

[Emily]

This is the old SOAR database.

http://www.recipesource.com/

Over the years, I've wanted to recreate recipes from my childhood, and the original recipes were long gone, along with the relatives who made them.

http://www.recipesource.com/baked-goods/desserts/cookies/24/rec2410.html

Then I found this database. Amazing! I not only found a lot of those old recipes, but I got ideas for things to try on a limited budget.

Perhaps you'll be able to locate your cookie recipe.

What a COOL site!
I love the nationality sections. How cool. I love trying recipes from around the world.

[Housekeeper]

Thanks for the suggestions...I'd totally forgotten about Recipe Source. I love that site!
Emily, from what I remember the Nestle recipe is the closest to what I had...I never bake as long as the recipe calls for either. I'd made some changes to mine, but don't remember exactly what. I know that I used only brown sugar and only butter flavor crisco.
SheWolf..I think I'll try your recipe today. My DH loves his cookies chewy as much as I love mine crispy...Might make me the "good Mom" today, for a change LOL!!!

[Midnight Blue]

It was the best recipe I've ever found. Crispy but not hard. Held it's shape when baked (didn't spread all over the pan). Good flavor. Even my MIL asks for my chocolate chip cookies...and THAT never happens, trust me :-D I made them last weekend and went to make a batch today and can't find it! I've looked all over the kitchen, even under the bread machine and the microwave...

So....help a sister out....What's YOUR favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe?

For choc chip I usually use the recipe on the Nestle Tollhouse packet of choc chips, always good. They have these swirl chips that are a blend of dark and white chocolate that are really great too. I have some new recipes I'm going to be trying this year so I'll try and post them.

[SheWoff]

Housekeeper....I made some today too while the deer was hanging. The guys found them so now out of 3 dozen cookies, they left me 3!!! :mrgreen: I swear it is like having a bunch of teens around instead of men lol!

She

[Housekeeper]

I actually have...well, okay I was going to say I have 4 left, but apparently dh was up during the night snacking...there is 1!!!! left. They were good!!

[Emily]

Thanks for the suggestions...I'd totally forgotten about Recipe Source. I love that site!
Emily, from what I remember the Nestle recipe is the closest to what I had...I never bake as long as the recipe calls for either. I'd made some changes to mine, but don't remember exactly what. I know that I used only brown sugar and only butter flavor crisco.
SheWolf..I think I'll try your recipe today. My DH loves his cookies chewy as much as I love mine crispy...Might make me the "good Mom" today, for a change LOL!!!

I would think the replacement of brown sugar for white (more molasses)
might create a more crispy effect as molasses is a different type of sugar texture that may crisp up. Either that or - what did you replace with the crisco? The recipe calls for butter rather than crisco. Maybe that is why yours had a crispiness to them.

I think you may have answered your question with those two ingredients - worth a try anyway.

[Buttercup]

The host of the cooking show Good Eats did a show about the three types of chocolate chip cookies...Fluffy, Chewy and Crispy. He takes a basic recipe and shows how to alter it in order to arrive at your cookie texture preference. (ie increasing baking soda for a flatter cookie etc)

Here are the vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-KVveLp3k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-KVveLp3k

[251bravo]

The host of the cooking show Good Eats did a show about the three types of chocolate chip cookies...Fluffy, Chewy and Crispy. He takes a basic recipe and shows how to alter it in order to arrive at your cookie texture preference. (ie increasing baking soda for a flatter cookie etc)

Here are the vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-KVveLp3k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-KVveLp3kBC I would need to try the basic recipe and try to alter it in order to arrive..last time i baked a two layer cake i put the frosting on before it cooled off..i couldn't figure out why the frosting did not want to stick to cake until my laughing wife told me..that the cakes needed to cool 1st:-D

[Housekeeper]

Replacing the butter with butter flavored Crisco and using all brown sugar gave me perfect cookies!!

4 1/2 C all purpose flour
2 tsp bk soda
2 tsp salt

Mix together, set aside.

Cream together 2 C butter flavor crisco
3 C brown sugar

When fluffy add 4 eggs and 1 T vanilla ext.

Mix well.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, then add 1 bag of chocolate chips. If you MUST spoil the cookies...you may add nuts at this point :razz:

Scoop with an icecream scoop (I think it's 1/4 C measure) onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. You'll get about 6 cookies to a pan. Bake at 375 for 12-15 minutes depending on your oven and how dark/crispy you like your cookies. Mine come out perfectly at 13 minutes. Browned and crispy around the edges, soft in the center.

Makes 25 huge cookies.

I made these and sent into the school yesterday for "birthday treat day" to celebrate my sons 11th birthday. I had teachers coming up and telling me how good my cookies are :-D

[Housekeeper]

I FOUND my recipe!!!! (it was stuck in the recipe box, under salads....go figure :mrgreen:)

The only difference between what I used before and what I posted above is 2 eggs instead of 4. I think that's why they got that lovely crispy texture.

[betsy baker]

I use the Toll House recipe too, with a couple of changes. I don't the cookies as long as it says either. I bake them just until they start to brown. With the chips, I use a mixture of mini chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and peanut butter chips. Since I use real butter, I add a tablespoon of flour to the mix.

[Animal Lover]

Housekeeper....I made some today too while the deer was hanging. The guys found them so now out of 3 dozen cookies, they left me 3!!! :mrgreen: I swear it is like having a bunch of teens around instead of men lol!

She

My older brother once ate a PLATTER full overnight that I had made for the whole family of 7. There was not even one left. I was hoping he would get sick to his tummy but he didn't. Oi Vey, I was so upset at him for not thinking about anyone in the home except himself. Turns out, he lives his whole life that way and because he has curly blond hair, big blue eyes and a smile to win the mid-east over, he always gets away with it. AL