I’d like to share my chocolate chip cookie recipe with everyone on Steemit, tweaked after 30 years of being a housewife, with hopes to start a discussion..
Quick, easy, and guaranteed to elevate you to baking queen status. I started with the basic Nestle’s Toll House recipe – great recipe but I found my cookies to be too cakelike and heavy. This recipe has less flour and baking soda which makes for a flatter, crisper cookie.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees, line cookie sheet with parchment paper, use paddle attachment on mixer
- 1 ¾ cup of flour, ½ teaspoon baking soda, ½ teaspoon salt - Sift
- 2 sticks of butter at room temperature
- 1 cup light brown sugar and ½ cup white sugar
- 2 teaspoons real vanilla, 2 eggs
- 1 package Nestle’s Toll House chocolate chips, 12 oz, 1 package Heath Bar Toffee Bits, 12 oz
• Cream butter and sugars till creamy, medium to high speed..
• Mix in vanilla and eggs till just blended, low speed..
• Add dry ingredients, low speed or by hand and stir in chips & Heath Bar Toffee Bits.
• Drop by teaspoon full and gently flatten on cookie sheet.
• Bake for about 6 minutes – till just the edges are brown and the center is still soft
Note – the consistency of the butter is key. The butter should be soft but not liquid so don’t overzap your butter in the microwave to get it to room temperature. Also, do not beat your eggs in – you just want to slowly mix them in until you can’t see them anymore in the dough. And resist the urge to overbake, it’s a slightly hotter oven at 375 degrees so the cookies can burn easily. The cookies crisp up while cooling so take them out while they still look slightly uncooked in the middle.
