Chocolate Chip Cookies

"Agrajag" (Agrajag)
12/20/2013 at 08:30 • Filed to: foodlopnik

What, no one else eats cookies while wearing murder driving gloves? Instructions inside.

I always make chocolate chip cookies to bring to my work christmas party. I pretty much follow the instructions on the back of the chip package, but with some slight variances.

First you're going to need all this stuff.

Mix flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl. In another bowl you mix together brown and plain sugar together with butter. No mixer? Tough it out with a wooden spoon like I did.

The idea to take pictures came late, so I this is a horrible step by step. Anyways, you mix eggs with sugar/butter mix and add variance 1. The directions call for 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract. But they should specify this one in particular. There is nothing better smelling on this planet than this stuff below. I will periodically open the bottle just to be graced by its fragrance. And a little more than a teaspoon won't kill anyone.

You then add the flour mix to the sugar/butter/egg/ mix and stir together. Then comes the chips and variance 2. Instead of 1 bag, I do 1 bag of chips and 1/2 a bag of chunks per batch.

Now when this is all mixed together, if you have followed the instructions on the bag you have a really sticky and kind of thin dough. What I do is add more flour at this point until you have a dough that holds a shape and isn't very sticky.

Instructions will generally call for 375° 9-11 min. If you do this you end up with a burnt cookie. I do 365° 10 min, but this can vary for each stove. You want the outside edge browning and the center to still be kind of wet looking when you take it out. The cookie will take care of itself after that.

Now go drive and get some cookies if you didn't make your own.

DISCUSSION (11)

Naijaflavor, I Love Doritos > Agrajag
12/20/2013 at 08:32

mmmmm

William Byrd > Agrajag
12/20/2013 at 08:34

Nice, I have the gloves, thanks to Arch Duke Maxyenko . I just need to make some cookies.

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joemcm > Agrajag
12/20/2013 at 08:38

Much glove. Such cookie. Quite Christmas.

Hermann > Agrajag
12/20/2013 at 08:54

I hate gloves. All of them... it just feels wrong and weird. Especially driving.

But damn... they do look seriously cool.

Nibby > Agrajag
12/20/2013 at 09:08

Now I know I have to go to the grocery store today and get some cookie dough... ask my sister to make me some cookies this weekend.

Agrajag > Hermann
12/20/2013 at 09:16

http://dents.co.uk/products/60/Me…

This is where I got them. 5 days from day of ordering to the U.S. Not bad UK, not bad. Came with a little thank you note and everything.

iDriveCode3 > Agrajag
12/20/2013 at 09:18

I appreciate the cookie recipe, nicely done, but I'm a little disappointed. Based on the snippit on the main page, I thought this was going to be a how-to on producing snuff films.

Hermann > Agrajag
12/20/2013 at 09:26

This is awesome. And very beautiful, look very well made. But I'd have a hard time finding use to them.

Gotta love when there's something human about something you buy, right? I bought a wallet earlier this year with these guys: http://cutterman.co/loja/

and it was packaged in a little branded cotton sack along a business card of the designer with a handwritten "Thank you! :)".

BTW, if you like well-made leather stuff, these guys are awesome. Everything is real, thick and dense leather.

Agrajag > Hermann
12/20/2013 at 09:35

Cool. Bookmarked that site.

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > Agrajag
12/20/2013 at 12:17

I picked up a few tips from the America's Test Kitchen, and what I have been doing is to take about half the butter, and brown it. Let it cool back to where it is solid-ish, then proceed with your recipe. I also add a ~1/2 or so tsp of rum extract at the same time as the vanilla. And if you use a lot of vanilla, actually Costco's is really good. as in like the measuring spoon when your done good.

Agrajag > Jeff-God-of-Biscuits
12/20/2013 at 21:38

I'll have to try that with the butter and rum extract. There isn't a Costco any where near me unfortunately, but this stuff is almost drinkable. It has a 35% alcohol content.

I have a friend who makes me chocolate rumballs every christmas. They are usually about the size of a bouncy ball and he'll give me about 9 of them. Each one is so loaded after 3 of them you start feeling it. Today I see him, and he says he only made me one this year. Then proceeds to overhand this baseball size rumball at me.