chocolate cookie recipe?

[dawgman]

anyone wabt to help me?

[SoCalDem]

1. I always use the one on the back of the chips package

The secret is to not bake them too long, and to put them into an airtight container while they are still "warmish"..

[SuffragetteSal]

2. Hillary's cookie recipe sounds good to me

Find it here: http://cookierecipe.allrecipes.com/az/HllryClntnsChc.asp

It contains oatmeal which sounds really good to me. Also, the advice you received about not over-cooking is essential. I also found the best recipes were the ones that used 'real butter'!

I like walnuts in mine too. Good luck and let us know how they turn out :)

[newyawker99]

12. CongratsSuffragetteSal!! 900 posts

:toast:

[E_Zapata]

3. For chocolate chip cookies, you can't go wrong with Toll House

chocolate chips and their recipe on the back of the package.

You have to figure that the chocolate-maker doesn't want any screwups when someone uses their chocolate for a recipe. Thus, foolproof.

For chocolate cake: just look on the back of the Hershey's Cocoa Can. Fool proof.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

4. I totally agree Even I can make killer choc chip cookies with that recipe

[grasswire]

6. scandalous chocolate brownies

This is a cake-like brownie. Just sooooo yummy. I've been making them for fifteen years and always get rave reviews.

1 cup butter (I've made with margarine, too.)
1/2 cup dry cocoa
1 cup water
2 cups flour
2 cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 slightly beaten eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

In a saucepan, combine the water, cocoa and butter. Bring to a boil while stirring constantly, then remove from the heat.

In a large bowl, stir together the dry ingredients - flour, sugar, soda and salt. In a small bowl blend the eggs, buttermilk and vanilla. Add to the flour mixture and stir until blended. Add the cocoa mixture and stir until smooth. You can use an electric mixer, but be careful because the batter is thin and can squirt out of the bowl all over the place!

Grease and flour a baking dish or sheet cake pan (about 1 inch deep, 15x10) and pour in the batter. Bake at 375° for 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, make the frosting by putting

1/4 cup butter
3 tablespoons of buttermilk
3 tablespoons of cocoa

in the same saucepan, cooking and stirring until boiling. Add 2 1/4 cups confectioner' sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla. Stir until smooth and keep warm until cake comes out of the oven. Smooth the frosting over the cake while it is hot. It makes the most wonderful smoooth glaze. Just super.

I originally got this from a holiday baking magazine, but I see the same recipe in a lot of different places, always called Buttermilk Brownies.

[E_Zapata]

7. hee hee - with a CUP of butter, how could you go wrong?

That sounds scrumptious!

[Kenneth ken]

5. apparently not

everyone wants to help you make chocolate CHIP cookies, but no ideas on plain ol' chocolate cookies.


sorry - I don't have any chocolate cookie recipes either.

:hi:

[dawgman]

8. here's what I did

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 3/4 cups flour
1 1/2 teaspoons instant coffee, slightly crushed
8 oz. semisweet chocolate chips

1. Cream the butter with the sugars until fluffy.
2. Beat in the egg and the vanilla extract
3. Combine the dry ingredients and beat into the butter mixture.
4. Stir in the chocolate chips.
5. Drop by large spoonfuls onto a greased cookie sheet.
6. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes, or 10-12 minutes for a crispier
cookie.

supposedly a Neiman Marcus recipe.

[TreasonousBastard]

10. Good basic recipe, but...

adding stuff is fun.

I use cocoa powder for chocolate cookies. And almond extract either substituted for or in addition to the vanilla.

Various nuts, and raisins, are good additions. My favorite is chopped hazelnuts, but almonds work.

And, it's a little tricky dealing with the liquid, but raspberry preserves really perk up the cookies. It can be added to the dough, or cookie "sandwiches" can be made, a la Oreos or Lintzer tortes.

[SoCalDem]

9. Tons of cookie recipes here.. and other goodies too

http://www.northpole.com/kitchen/cookbook/cat001.html


\\other recipes @
http://www.northpole.com/Kitchen/Cookbook/

[dofus]

11. The Best Chocolate Chip Cooke recipe ever:

I am the cookie goddess in certain circles. When I'm taking classes at my local junior college, I always bake them on test days and bring them to class still warm. Needless to say, I have a 4.0 average at that school. I also bake them for my kids' school, and am wildly popular there.

Another note. This recipe comes from a cookbook from the 1930's, a time when chocolate chips as we now purchase them apparently didn't exist, because the recipe tells you to shop up a bar of semi-sweet chocolate. Also, not the somewhat odd proportions.

Cream together:
1 cup crisco
1 cup white (granulated) sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed.

Add 2 medium* eggs and 2 teaspoons vanilla#

Stir in 2 1/4 cups unbleached white flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Add 1 package semi-sweet chocolate chips+

Drop by teaspoon amounts on to lightly greased cookie sheets and bake at 350 degrees for 11-13 minutes with the rack in the top (broil) position of the stove for electric stove, rotating the pans 180 degrees at the 10 minute point.

Footnotes:
* I discovered that medium eggs rather than large, jumbo, etc. make the best texture.
# I use Mexican vanilla. Be sure to use the real thing, not imitation vanilla.
+ Baker's is the best, but I can no longer find them in my grocery store.

Any further question, just PM me.

[Breezy du Nord]

13. Sorry, ours is a carefully gaurded secret.

:P