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Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies: Cookie of the Day

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

There’s always going to be the “best” chocolate chip cookie recipe, or the famous $250 Neiman Marcus recipe or that debate over whether or not a chocolate chip cookie should be soft, hard, chewy, flat or round and the list goes on! To tell you the truth, I’ve never met a chocoalte chip cookie I didn’t like. Honest. So these are not the claim to fame world’s best chocolate chip cookie, but I have made them before and they are a favorite of mine. I like my cookies chewy and crunchy sometimes, but when I want a softer one I reach for this recipe. It’s from Martha’s cache of cookie recipes and Im sure she even has more than she can count, nor could she sooner choose a favorite.

Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies – Martha Stewart

*Update: this is Feb 17th’s Cookie of the Day

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
  • 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cup packed light-brown sugar
  • 1 large egg, room temperature
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 3 tablespoons sour cream
  • 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 3/4 cup milk-chocolate chips
Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350. Whisk together flour, salt, and baking soda. Beat butter and sugars with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla. Reduce speed to low. Add flour mixture in 2 batches, alternating with sour cream, and beat until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips by hand.
  2. Cover, and freeze for 10 minutes.
  3. Using a 1 1/2-inch ice cream scoop or a tablespoon, drop dough onto baking sheets lined with parchment, spacing about 2 inches apart. Flatten slightly. Bake until centers are set and cookies are pale golden brown, 12 to 14 minutes.
I am so happy to finally have a cookie jar!! While girls my age (twenty) were asking for UGG’s and LuLu Lemon pants for Christmas I was wishing for a cookie jar! (true story, and no I dont already own UGG’s or even one pair of LuLu Lemons) I had wanted a cookie jar for so long and I dont know why but I could not find one anywhere, and I mean anywhere! I had looked high and low, at Homesense, WInners, JYSK, The Bay and everyother homestore. Then on a last trip to the mall before Christmas I spotting this glorious shining Jar Of My Dreams! I quickly explained where exactly it was located along with a picture of it and sure enough someone bought it and placed it under the tree =) And now I am so happy to christen it with it’s first of many cookie inhabitants!
Enjoy =)
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Cowboy Roundup! Cookie of the Day

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

I love the Martha website, and I visit it often for ideas and inspiration. I love checking out the cookie of the day! I found this weeks cookie of the day, Nov. 2nd, ”Cowboy Cookies” and it looked de-licous! I have been wanting to make it since Sunday!..But I thought I would wait a day or so after eating so many chocolates leftover from Halloween! I also happened to have all the ingredients on hand..so that was a plus! These weren’t too sweet so they were just right after the weekend. I would recommend you whip up a batch for your cowboys! (and cowgirls!)


The little cowboy hat was the added touch! Jordan bought me a necklace that came in this little cowboy hat jewelry box for a Christmas present when we first stared dating! I added some ribbon to it for the photo =)

Try these! And you’ll be sure to roundup a group of hungry people!

From the Martha Stewart Living: Cookie of the Day

Makes about 5 dozen ( I didn’t even come close to 5 dozen..so unless you make them really tiny don’t think it will get this many cookies!)

Ingredients

  • Vegetable oil cooking spray
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup light-brown sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 cups old-fashioned oats
  • 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut into 1/4-inch chunks (1 cup)
  • 3 ounces (3/4 cup) pecan halves
  • 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut

I also added some Raisins.. to trick me into thinking their healthy! I also used about 2 tbsp. apple sauce as I didn’t have quite enough butter. These are yummy!

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat baking sheets with cooking spray, line with parchment, and spray parchment. Sift flour, baking soda, salt, and baking powder into a medium bowl.
  2. Beat butter and sugars with a mixer on medium-high until pale and creamy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to medium. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
  3. Reduce speed to low, and slowly add flour mixture, beating until just incorporated. Beat in oats, chocolate, pecans, and coconut until combined. (Dough can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.)
  4. Using a 1 1/2-inch ice cream scoop or a small spoon, drop dough onto baking sheets, spacing 3 inches apart.
  5. Bake until edges of cookies begin to brown, 11 to 13 minutes. Transfer baking sheets to wire rack, and let cool for 5 minutes. Transfer cookies to racks. Let cool. (Cookies can be stored up to 3 days.)

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