#16 - Chocolate Chip Cookies

So... it's been awhile since I last posted.  Way back in late April or maybe early May of 2011 I made chocolate chip cookies for one of my last days at my old job.  I can't believe that was a year ago.  That was the last new recipe I tried in 2011.  Yikes.  Anyway... I'm 99% sure the recipe I used is the one below (from MarthaStewart.com - Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies), but no promises since it was a long time ago :)  They were crazy delicious, but the crumbliest cookies ever.  Definitely not soft and chewy.  I don't know how to fix that, but I would still make these again even if I had to eat the pieces with a spoon out of a bowl.  As someone pointed out last year, that would be the perfect way to eat them.  Just so long as the bowl was full of ice cream.

Ingredients:
2 and 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups (about 12 ounces) semisweet and/or milk chocolate chips

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  In a small bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda.  Set aside.  In a separate bowl combine the butter with both sugars.  Beat until light and fluffy.  (The directions say to use an electric mixer set on medium speed, but I just did it by hand.  For the next step it says to reduce the speed to low and beat until well mixed, about 1 minute, but again, I just did it by hand.)  Add the salt, vanilla, and eggs.  Beat until well mixed.  Add flour mixture and mix until just combined.  Stir in the chocolate chips.

Drop heaping tablespoon-size balls of dough about 2 inches apart on baking sheets lined with parchment paper.  Bake until cookies are golden around the edges, but still soft in the center, 8 to 10 minutes.  Remove from oven and let cool on baking sheet 1 to 2 minutes.  Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely.

Makes 3 dozen (supposedly... I have no idea how many I made, but maybe they were a little too big and that was what was wrong with the consistency?  I remember them spreading and flattening a ton while baking.)

New ingredients: Nothing
New skills: Nothing