Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip CookiesSo we’ve been on a quest for a really good chocolate chip cookie recipe.  Most of the ones that you get out of books are good but we were looking for a great one.  Even going and getting cookies from bakeries they came up a little short.  We’ve looked and looked all over the internet and finally found a great chocolate chip cookie recipe.  We only changed it a little.  Since we are at high altitude it is really important to add more structure to your cookies, meaning you need to add more flour.  If you are at sea level just take half a cup of flour out of the recipe.  There are a lot of chocolate chips in this recipe but it turns out really good.  Photos are Below.  You should definitely try these Chocolate Chip Cookies.  They are awesome.

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Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Recipe type: cookie
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 4 dozen
 
Adapted from savorysweetlife.com
Ingredients
  • ½ cup butter
  • ½ cup crisco (I like using the butter flavored)
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 1½ cup packed brown sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3¼ cup flour (at sea level 2¾ cups)
  • 1 scant teaspoon kosher salt (3/4 tsp regular salt)
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1½ teaspoon baking powder
  • 6 oz mini semi-sweet chips (apprx. 1 cup)
  • 10 oz milk chocolate chips (apprx. 2 cups)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream butter, crisco, sugar and brown sugar until light in color and fluffy.
  3. Stir in eggs and vanilla.
  4. Add salt, baking soda, baking powder and half the flour. Mix on low.
  5. While your mixer is on low, slowly add the rest of the flour until all is incorporated.
  6. Fold in chocolate chips. The batter will be thick.
  7. Drop tablespoon heaps onto cookie sheet.
  8. Bake 8-10 minutes, until the edges turn golden brown.

Lemon White Chocolate Cookies

White Chocolate Lemon CookiesI like trying new recipes.  I have friends with the same world view.

One of my friends tried these Lemon White Chocolate Cookies, and made a huge “mistake”.

She was making these cookies for the first time and read the ingredient list wrong.  Instead of 1 Tablespoon of lemon juice, she put in 1 Tablespoon of lemon extract.  Yep, you read right, lemon extract.  The cookies turned out with a very strong lemon flavor with the white chocolate smoothing it out.  For those of us who like lemon it was actually really good.  The next time she made them, she decided to follow the recipe because if they turned out good with the extract they should be good with the right ingredients, right?  Wrong!  They were okay, I guess.  Kind of bland with no real depth to them. Nothing special.

So she went back to the book, scratched out juice and wrote in extract.  Now I have a great lemon cookie recipe because she didn’t read the recipe right.  I don’t put in the nuts because some people are weird and don’t like nuts in cookies but if you want to try it the recipe recommends walnuts or cashews.  I hope you enjoy these Lemon White Chocolate Cookies as much as I do!

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This recipe was adapted from the book Nestle Collection.  It’s an awesome book, and fairly inexpensive on amazon (I think it’s out of print).

Lemon White Chocolate Cookies
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Recipe type: Cookie
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 3 dozen
 
Adapted from the book Nestle Collection
Ingredients
  • ¾ cup (1½ sticks) butter
  • ½ cup packed brown sugar
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon lemon extract
  • 1½ cups all purpose flour
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups (12 oz package) white chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Soften butter, either leave it on the counter for a while or pop it in the microwave for 20 seconds.
  3. Cream butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar together.
  4. Mix in egg.
  5. Add lemon extract.
  6. Add salt and baking soda.
  7. Slowly add flour while mixer is on low.
  8. Fold in white chocolate chips.
  9. Put on baking sheet in 1 tablespoon heaps.
  10. Bake for 8-12 minutes, until the edges are lightly browned. Or longer depending on how crispy you want your cookie.