The Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

I found this recipe at allrecipes.com, and they turned out yummy!

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 tbsp vanilla extract

1 egg

1 egg yolk

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
2. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
3. In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.
4. Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

You can find the recipe here also.  These cookies did not last long at all in my house.  Next time, I am going to double the recipe.  My only complaint was that the cookies never browned.  I thought it was because the cookies were so big, so I did a few little ones, and the same thing happened.  Anyone have any ideas about why that happened?  I've never had this problem before.

Yummy Doesn't Have To Be Homemade

I bought these Nestle break and bake cookies the other day, but only because they were on sale.  These easy to bake cookies are pretty expensive to buy on a regular basis, at least for my budget, but when they are on sale cheap enough, I like to treat the kids.  Okay, and myself.  Chocolate chip cookies are my weakness.  Seriously, I could eat them until I feel sick.

Anyway, the ones I bought the other day had a chocolate center.  That's right, when I broke open a warm cookie, yummy, delicious melted chocolate oozed out.  Talk about good!  The only problem was that they were very, very rich, and I could only eat a couple.

Wait, that might have been a good thing. :)

The Finished Product

My writing is crooked, but I'm not a professional.  Aside from that, I think it looks pretty good.

Cookie Cake

Last week, I bought a cookie cake for Kasi for her birthday.  She didn't want a "real" cake, she wanted a cookie cake.  It hurt me to pay $9 for it, but that was what she wanted.

Tomorrow night she is having a slumber party, so I decided to make a cookie cake for that.  All I did was buy a tube of refrigerated dough, spread it thin on a pizza pan, and bake for 20 minutes.  It was really easy, and a whole lot cheaper.

Now I just need to decorate it...