Chocolate Chip Cookies: Trial #1

One of the main purposes of keeping this blog is to find the best recipes for the things we like to cook, and one recipe that we are constantly seeking is the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie. Here's our first formal shot at it. We made these last night, but every chocolate chip cookie tastes like The Best when it's fresh out of the oven, so I waited until this morning to formally taste-test them.

































Crispy Chewy Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Adapted from mennonitegirlscancook.blogspot.com

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg plus 1 yoke
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 cups rolled oats
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup walnuts

Preheat 375. Sift together all of the dry ingredients. Cream the butter and sugars until fluffy. Beat in the egg and the yolk one at a time. Stir in the dry ingredients, then the chocolate chips, oats, and walnuts. The batter will seem overly dry at first, but don't add water - it will all come together. Drop tablespoonfuls onto two greased sheets and bake for about 8 minutes. As always with cookies, you should take them out before they seem done, just when they start to turn golden brown - they will harden as they cool.

Evaluation: The cookies were indeed nice and crispy on the outside when they were right out of the oven, but they lost most of that overnight. However, they made up for this by become perfectly chewy, with lots of texture from the oats and the walnuts, and not too dry or too moist, just a little bit crumbly like pastry dough. The taste was average - this might be in part because we had to use old, questionably healthy flour, which made them taste a little bit less than clean. Next time I would also add more chocolate chips and more vanilla.

Texture: 8
Taste: 5