Oh...my...god...these cookies are good. (Bragging within)

I just finished a chocolate chip cookie that I made last night. Well, actually, I made it with Mr. Rilch’s assistance. I don’t have an electric mixer at the moment (though I will soon, and then I plan to make the mother of all cakes), so I called upon Mr. Rilch to stir in the flour, chocolate chips, and, in one of two batches, the walnuts. He did it far better and faster than I ever have, too!

While they were baking, Friend Down South called. When he asked what I was “up to”, I couldn’t resist saying, “Oh, just baking some cookies!” “Aw, you’re such a good wife…” he groaned*.

So I just had one of the non-walnut ones. And every bite was a symphony. The recipe supposedly yields ~two dozen, but I make 'em big, so there are (were) eighteen of each. Is it not great, when you’re eating something terrific, to know that you’re the source of it, so you can do it again as many times as you like? Instead of having to budget another purchase, or hope you can cajole the other person into making some more, or hope that the store/company never goes out of business?

So you can keep your Soft Batch, your Chewy Chips Ahoy, your Mrs. Fields, AND your Otis Spunkmeyer! I, Rilchiam, am the cookie-baking goddess of the West Coast!

(I said there’d be bragging!)

*He got divorced from a psycho about two years ago, and his current SO is another breed of psycho. Which is why he was calling. After her latest stunt, he knew he’d have to call this off, but he wanted to discuss the matter with Mr. Rilch, so now he can’t not break up with her, knowing that someone else knows what happened, and will remind him that it would be extremely foolish to stay with her after this. I won’t tell you what happened; it would be a subject for a Pit thread, except that there’s nothing to Pit, because “it’s not gonna happen again; I can tellya that!” Anyway, my point is, neither one’a them ever baked anything! Except maybe from those dough cylinders. :stuck_out_tongue:

You start a whole thread about them and you don’t even post the recipe??? That’s just mean!

Okay, here it is!

Preheat oven to 375.

Cream into a paste:
2 sticks butter (gotta be butter, not margarine)
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup dark brown sugar (gotta be dark brown, not light or golden)
1 egg.

Add:
2 1/4 cups flour
1 T baking soda
1/2 t salt

Then add:

1 bag double chocolate chips (gotta be double chocolate, preferably Ghirardelli. Do not speak to me of "semi-sweet.)
1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

Form the dough into chunks about the size of golf balls, and make them round, not misshapen blobs. Place on ungreased cookie sheets (but you knew that, right?).

For the non-walnut ones, bake for ten minutes, then take the sheet out and give it one firm smack against the countertop. This will knock air out of the cookies and make them more dense. Then bake for another ten minutes. (You don’t need to do this for the walnut ones, because the presence of the nuts is enough to keep them from spreading too much. Just give them twenty minutes uninterrupted.)

Cool on tray for one minute, then on wire rack for ten. And watch them disappear!

Nice recipe, it sounds real close to the one I am using. I had to add more flour or they just baked to flat. Replace a cup of flour with oats and add some cinamon and you have some great oatmeal cookies.I just bought a Kitchen Aid mixer and it is heaven for making bread, cookies and such. Been baking up a storm since I got it. Anyone have a good bread recipe?

Sounds delicious. So, can you let us Europeans know exactly how much butter is in a “stick”? We only get butter in big blocks, you see.

One stick of butter = 4 ounces

Thank you! Another mystery solved, and more ignorance fought.

Sounds good… we made the yummiest muffins yesterday. heh… Chocolate cheesecake muffins… ohhhh so good they are.

I don’t like chocolate, but that sounds theoretically good. My sister makes this recipe called “Wookie cookies” out of the Star Wars cookbook that is apparently actually good. It smells good anyway. It’s like a chocolate chip cookie with cinnamon in it.
-Lil