Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies
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I am not 100% sure if this is the recipe my mom always made when I was growing up, but for some reason THIS is the classic recipe that comforts the very cockles of my heart with every spoonful of raw dough and with every warm, soft cookie dunked in a glass of cold milk.
I'm actually very disappointed with how they cooked. I don't recall them turning this brown or flattening up this much. Granted, I suppose I don't usually cook the dough. I eat it raw, eggs be dammed.
Little known fact: This recipe actually comes from Phoebe Buffay's grandmother, who got it from her French relative Nestle Toulouse...
Friends Nestle Toulouse clip
Pardon the fuzzy picture and the subtitles, but this was the most concise clip of this scene I could find on YouYube.
Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 sticks butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar (I used dark, but I don't always)
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chip cookies
Combine flour, soda and salt in a separate bowl; set aside. In a mixer, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add vanilla, combine. Add eggs 1 at a time, mixing between each addition.
Slowly add flour mixture and mix only until incorporated. Stir in chocolate chips by hand.
Refrigerate or freeze if desired. When ready to bake, heat oven to 375 and bake for 9-11 minutes, or until desired doneness is achieved.
So this is the recipe I always use, except I use shortening instead of butter. And I don't really cream it, I just mix it all together. Anyway, with shortening they turn out much thicker and fluffier, and not flat. I looked it up one time, and it has something to do with the differences between butter and shortening -- both fats, but they way they bake is different. Cool!
ReplyDeleteInteresting! I did use butter with most of the other recipes and not all of them were flat. I'd like to make a side-by-side batch of these using butter and shortening to see how they turn out. My mother-in-law makes hers with shortening and I actually don't really care for the taste. Shhh!! :) They are Matt's favorites, though. :)
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