After two years of research and 6 rounds of tweaking, I’ve finally perfected my chocolate chip cookie recipe. (That statement should have a million exclamation points after it.) When I first began my “Quest for the Best: Chocolate Chip Cookie” project, my plan was to find the best chocolate chip cookie recipe online. As the experiment progressed, I realized I should probably take all of the knowledge I was gaining to create my own frankenstein recipe. But to be honest, I figured I would find a recipe that was perfect and it wouldn’t be necessary. Well, I should have known myself better. As I continued to try more recipes, my expectations for the perfect chocolate chip cookie grew and grew until I knew I had no option but to create it myself. [Read more…]
Quest for the Best: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Do you guys want to know a secret? I’ve been working on this post for two years. TWO YEARS. (Actually, a little more than two years.) I’m not joking. This post is near and dear to my heart. I’ve always loved chocolate chip cookies (who doesn’t?) – As a kid I made them often with my mom (especially for Christmas), I started making them myself or with friends in middle school, and then in high school I even gave a “how-to speech” about making chocolate chip cookies for my English class. Over the years I’ve tried a handful of recipes (although mostly Toll House; let’s be real) – some really wonderful, some totally mediocre – and it made me wonder: What is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe? [Read more…]