I’ve taken off quite a bit of baby (and just plain Being Married To Keith) weight since this winter by avoiding all of those ingredients but yesterday my sweet tooth was not going to be tamed. I was reading a book about a bakery and a man who had something called “sweet sense” and well…
I had to bake something. Right then.
I looked through my recipe books and online for something new, something semi-complicated but in the end all I really wanted was dough so I went with chocolate chip cookies.
Nothing new. Nothing complicated. Just good ol’ cookie dough. Mine are a mix between the Nestle recipe and a recipe I found in Southern Lady magazine and since I couldn’t find my measuring spoons yesterday (they were hiding in the dish drainer, those sneaky spoons!) I would be hard-pressed to call it a “recipe”.
But we know that all good things start with butter.
I used my favorite pan from The Cake Pan Lady… the one I use to lay claim to mah may-un at community functions. Hee hee!
Here’s an important first step. Open the bag of chocolate chips and let them air out reeeaaaal good.
Test them too. You wouldn’t want to make a whole batch of cookies and then discover that the chocolate chips have turned bad, would you? Nope because that would be a tragedy.
Test thoroughly because sometimes the chips at the bottom of the bag are different than the ones at the top. So take lots of random samples to ensure freshness.
It’s a miracle I have any of this stuff left in the house… by the way, the culprit turned out to be my oldest redhead. She got busted in front of her younger sister who was madder than a hornet that SHE didn’t think to steal the brown sugar when I wasn’t looking.
Truthfully, I could probably have stopped after the eggs and been happy.
But look what I would have missed. Yum.
Rather than make these into individual cookies, I like to pour the batter in a pan. I like the soft, gooey, chewiness of it all.
Today it’s back to the broccoli and the peanuts and the spinach and the fruit and I’m going to try really hard to stay away from books about bakeries.
I can smell them all the way to Richmond Virginia! I also like the no particular size to the cookie that you take.
Just when I think I’m making a teeny bit of progress on my baby weight (weeell, alright, so he’s thirty now!), you post these delicious pictures! I know there’s a bag of chocolate chips in my baking pantry and a bag of fresh brown sugar…uh, I’ll try to resist. I really will.
Blessings from a tree farm in Oregon,
Dianne
Man!!! And I stopped by yesterday and your truck wasn’t there so I didn’t even come down the drive. I passed your husband going into town before that….I bet this was sitting on the counter all by it’s lonesome waiting for me to sneak in and sample!!!
The brownies I made the other day took care of my baking cravings, too – but just found out I’m supposed to bring a dessert tomorrow. Oh, well, if I must…
**I have one of the pans from the Cake Pan Lady, too!!**
Thanks! Now I must make cookies. Not fair. I should have listened to the voices in my head when I read the title of your post and not clicked on it. There’s no way I can resist anything beginning with flour, butter, and sugar.
Love your cake pan…I have secretly been wanting one of those, too:). The cookies look delish! When I was little, I was a brown sugar thief….I still like it on toast with butter:).
~Julia
I sent one of these cake pans to my aunt! I chose the farm scene also….
Would love your recipe!!!
You cook like I do. Kind of sticking to a recipe, but not totally commited! Since we both don’t live near a store, I’m sure that has something to do with it!
Oh my gosh!!! I just saw your LIFE ON THE FARM below!!! SO CUTE!
Thanks Sandra!!!
Okay so not fair!!!! I want cookies now and I really shouldn’t since I’m trying really really hard to cut out sweets.
Ugh, how dare you post this… I am craving chocolate chip cookies so much now! That looks delicious, and perfect, and simple…
Oh well. Once I have an oven after our move I will be all on making chocolate chip cookies… I figure moving halfway across the country earns you at least a couple of those delicious things, right?
We drove 12 hours today and now I’m in a motel with no cookies in sight. Thank-you, Miss Jennifer!
GOING TO THE STORE RIGHT NOW FOR CHOC CHIPS! MY MOUTH IS WATERING!