You can tell a lot about a person by the way they like their cookies. I mean, sure, everyone likes cookies, but if you let them pick their ideal out of a line-up, you would see how quickly the party lines are drawn.
People who like soft and chewy cookies have very different personalities than those who like crispy cookies. A person who defines culinary success by a tall and cakey cookie will probably not get along with someone who comes from the dense-and-fudgey cookie way of thinking. People take this stuff personally. Get a room full of ten people together and ask them to agree on a single standard for a successful cookie, and whoa, grab your riot gear. Sh*t is going to get real.
Thing about chocolate chip cookies is, they are real easy to mess up.
And by mess up, I mean, make them slightly different than how you wanted. That’s why Tessa’s post here is brilliant. She broke down exactly what it takes to achieve your ideal in cookie perfection. I don’t even want to know how many cookies this gal had to make/bake/eat in order to get this scientific analysis together, but I thank her for it.
Now get the hell out my way. I have baking to do. It’s cookie time!
BOTH! now i want to make some.
clearly I need to make mine with all brown sugar and melted butter AND chill it for 24 hours. Yum. Sorry to comment as anonymous but I don’t have any of the other choices.
Anne
I’m with you on all counts! Brown sugar is the best!
That’s what I’ve recently converted to. Brown sugar and melted butter, chillin out. Makes the best cookies.
I forgot how awesomely bad that movie was! Thks fr th mmrs!
Half brown sugar/half granulated sugar plus half butter/half shortening. That’s what Mom taught me and I still think it makes the best cookie – crunchy around the edges and chewy in the center…
Yes! Half ‘n’ Half Sugar ‘n’ Shortening has worked amazingly well for decades in my oatmeal/choco chippers! I can make them in my sleep – you know, if I had a $ for every one!
This week, though, I was experimenting and made plain oatmeal for a GrandLove who was craving them, using 1/2 butter + 1/2 sugar-free applesauce AND 1/2 unbleached + 1/2 white whole wheat flours… all l-b sugar. Ya know, they earned his approval. So simple!
Still the way to their ♡’s!
mmm how about all of them? 😀 Although that melted butter one looks pretty darn good!
Have you ever seen the Episode of Good Eats “Three Chips for Sister Marsha”? The silly plot line is that Alton’s sister keeps wanting a different kind of chocolate chip cookies, so he goes through the three basic varieties and what ingredients change them, and the science of why. It’s pretty fabulous(and funny) if you get the chance while your cookies are baking. =)
I’m a cookie waffler. Sometimes a crisp butter cookie is perfect, and sometimes a gooey, soft cookie is perfect, and sometimes a chewy, spicy cookie is perfect, and sometimes no cookie at all is perfect, if there’s cake instead.
As you can imagine, I avoid cookie arguments like the plague, as my type gets stoned first.
Whoa, that’s awesome. I’m a crispy/chewy cookie gal. Hope we can still be friends. xo 😉
I think I might be the crispy cookie kind of person. Soft and doughy cookies weren’t around when I was little. We had Toll House, cowboy cookies made from oatmeal, nuts and chocolate chips, and molasses ginger cookies. Of course our favorites were Oreos, but we didn’t get store cookies very often.
Husband and I quote “Troop Beverly Hills” whenever possible. “it’s cookie time, it’s cookie time, it’s cook-ie ti-ime!”
Your husband sounds rad.
I love that post too! …still not sure exactly which is right for me, though I am definitely a soft cookie lover assuming they’re homemade.
Nestle Toll House recipe on the bag.My size can attest that I haven’t met a cookie I didn’t like. Crunchy, chewy, cakie. A certain Blue monster and I have much in common. Keep the fun coming Aunt Peaches! Coooookies!
My sis makes chocolate chip cookies for family get togethers, and they always vanish! Best ever. Her secret? She uses the Tollhouse recipe, with one change. Butter flavor Crisco. Tastier than with plain shortening, and a better texture than using butter. Perfect chewy crisp cookies.
Where else would I find cookies w/captions…I’m thinking, how sweet is Peaches to do this for us…thanks a million, cookie!!!