Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

[jamesq]

A bag of 18 of my world-famous chocolate chip cookies sold at auction tonight for $74 dollars.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup butter
  
• ½ cup granulated (white) sugar
  
• 1½ cup cups packed brown sugar
  
• 2 large eggs
  
• 2½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  
• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
  
• ¾ teaspoon salt
  
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
  
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
  
• 1½ package chocolate chips (225 g package)

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
   
2. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
   
3. Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
   
4. Combine the wet and dry ingredients.
   
5. Stir in the chocolate chips.
   
6. With your fingers, place golf-ball sized dough portions 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.
   
7. Bake for 9 minutes, or until edges are light brown.

Makes 30 cookies

It’s very important that you not exceed the cooking time given above, even if the cookies appear to be under baked. When the cookies are removed from the oven, the sugar in them will stay hot and continue the cooking process. The finished product should be soft in the middle and crunchy around the edges.

Substituting ingredients (i.e. margarine for butter, or using artificial vanilla extract) will produce an inferior cookie.

Comments

[ersatz-marduk.livejournal.com]

"Impressive" doesn't even begin to cover that. Well done.

[thekillerb69.livejournal.com]

The fame of your cookies is spread far and wide. You alone helped raise about 1/3 of what was sold last night. Awesome!

[kayeita.livejournal.com]

What kind of cookies were they?

[jamesq]

My world-famous chocolate chip cookies of course! (Recipe added to main post).

[kayeita.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing! I'll have to try them out one of these days, I'll let you know of the result when I attempt them!

[rectangularcat]

I just came here to say well done again but now there's the infamous recipe. I must hide it from Iain.

Thank you very much on behalf of THUA. I asked Morrigan last night to think about who to bring for the next Collegium that would be cool for the archers. If you've got any ideas, let me know!

[jamesq]

Dalton is probably a better person to ask. I only know prominent local archers.

[rectangularcat]

cool - thanks for the suggestion.

[oblivions.livejournal.com]

heh, though i must admit, that Rosie would right on your tail feathers with her cookies. The Baroness didn't get much of that plate she bought *drool*

first blow goes to team clam

[wild-wanderer.livejournal.com]

Lets not forget, although you may not have chosen sides, your cookies struck the first blow for team clam. I must say that there was an overwhelming horde on team clams side compared to team sausage. I'd estimate 7-1.

Re: first blow goes to team clam

[jamesq]

I love how "Team Clam" and "Team Sausage" are catching.

Re: first blow goes to team clam

[jamesq]

First, you need to know that TRMs Vic and Inga were at 12th night promoting Winter War. This year Winter War will be between the masculine "strength" side and the feminine "grace and beauty" side. Which is to say, vikvikingsson will be commanding all the Princes and Barons and whatever forces they can muster. On the other side, ya_inga will be commanding all the Princesses and Baronesses and all the forces they can muster.

So about a month ago, I was talking with thekillerb69, who was trying to convince me to side with Vic. "you don't want to be haging around with all the women do you?" he asked. I remained uncommitted.

Hearing this, our own Baroness, WJ, said "What? You don't want to be part of that sausage-fest do you." Again, I remained uncommitted, but now a funny erupted in my mind.

I started calling each side "team sausage" or "team clam". And it's catching on. If someone uses it in court between now and the end of Winter War, I'll be a happy Quixote.

Still uncommitted, because I have an active experiment in my mind. Discussing the ends of the experiment will queer the results though.

Re: first blow goes to team clam

[jamesq]

Also, to reiterate wild_wanderer's point - the reason the cookies went for so much wasn't so much that they were my cookies, as Elias was good at turning it from an auction to a fight between the two sides. Also, the teams were drastically lopsided. About three or four people on Team Sausage and half of tavern on Team Clam. If this ratio holds, it might be quite the rout at Winter War.

[minyata.livejournal.com]

Mmmm they were tastey too!!!!

Having been one of the contributers of the $74 bid, it was worth every penny I tossed at Wilma! Not only for the cookies themselves and the look on Elias' face when Wilma hollared out $72, but watching Wilma try and juggle people throwing cash at her was priceless.

[hislittlekitty.livejournal.com]

Butter-salted or unsalted?

[jamesq]

unsalted