she says i'm much too thin, she asks me if i'm sick

IMG_7778, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

Remember that healthy eating kick? I’m still totally on it, but I am not made of stone.

These cookies are – according to Smells Like Dessert – the absolute Holy Grail of chocolate chip cookies. I’m not entirely sure I agree – they’re good, but they’re not so good that I’m going to quit on my trusty family recipe. (They are also HUGE. Like, ENORMOUS. I can see why the recipe calls for making them so large, because they are a lot softer having been baked like that, but. This definitely makes giant, Starbucks-sized cookies, and one is more than enough.)

I also did something a bit weird with this recipe, which may be why I didn’t love them quite as passionately as the original blogger. When I went to start baking, I discovered that my brown sugar was hopelessly hard and unusable, so I tried a substitution gleaned from the internet: one cup of white sugar and a quarter cup of molasses to replace one cup of brown sugar. It worked out – the texture of the cookies is perfect, and they’re not too sweet – but there is a bit of a molasses-y aftertaste. I don’t mind it, really? But it definitely changed the character of the cookies.

Song of the Entry: Jack’s Mannequin – Holiday From Real

now, what starts with the letter 'c'?

2008/10/04, originally uploaded by pirateygoodness.

To understand these photos, you first have to understand that there is exactly one recipe for chocolate-chip cookies in the world, and that is the one my mom uses. She didn’t invent it – I believe she got it from my aunt – but it’s how cookies have always been made in my house, and it is very, very important. Like, I knew how to make these cookies before I was allowed to make Kraft Dinner by myself.

Cookies made from any other recipe are just not real cookies.

Song of the Entry: Cookie Monster – C is for Cookie