Monday, February 28, 2011 ~ Easy Cookie Recipes | Chocolate Cookies | Peanut Butter Cookies | Sugar Cookies

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe Source: melskitchencafe.com **Resist the urge to bake the cookies longer than indicated; they may appear underbaked at first but will firm up as they cool.** Ingredients: 2 cups Flour ½ cup Baking Cocoa 2 teaspoons Baking Powder ½ teaspoon Salt 16 ounces Semisweet Chocolate, chopped (it is best not to substitute chocolate chips since they melt differently) 4 large Eggs 2 teaspoon Vanilla 10 Tablespoon Butter, softened to room temperature 1 ½ cups packed Brown Sugar ½ cup White Sugar 1 ½ cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips Preparation Instructions :- Whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl; set aside. Melt the chocolate in the microwave (50% power for 2 minutes, then stir and microwave in 20 second intervals until...

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First, get your ingredients together. You need to start with your ingredients. What do you need? You will need the following: 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 sticks butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs 2 cups (12 oz.) semi-sweet chocolate chips Make sure you have all the ingredients. Anything else you need you' will need to buy at the store. Make a list and double check it before you go so that you don't forget anything. If you find out half-way through you're missing something, you're going to be upset. Once you have all the ingredients to make homemade chocolate chip cookies from scratch, you can start mixing them together. You can use an electric mixer to mix the dough, but be careful not to 0ver-beat...

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Easy Cookie Baking Tips

> Use soft butter

> Cream butter and sugar well

> Check expiration date on your leavening agents

> Flour should be measured properly

> Sift all the dry ingredients

> Pre-crack eggs into a separate bowl

> Mix eggs one at a time, mixing well in between

> Add dry ingredients slowly

> Mix in dry ingredients just until blended

> Hand mix in the chocolate chips and nuts

> Use a cookie or ice cream scoop to make cookies the same size

> Use parchment paper

> Bake just until cookie edges are brown

> Let cookies sit on cookie sheet

> Start over on cool cookie sheet

> Scoop cookie dough BEFORE freezing

> Buy a good oven thermometer

5 Essential Rules to Making Good Cookies:

1) Do not overbake. For those of you who have read my blog for a while you know this is a pet peeve of mine. I have a hard time leaving any cookie alone but if it's overbaked I can easily leave it. It ruins everything about the cookie when it's overbaked...the texture, the color, the taste...

2) Always use real butter. Some of you may argue with me on that but these are my rules so real butter it is. If it says to have your butter at room temperature, make sure it is. That makes a huge difference too when you have to cream the ingredients together.

3) Use parchment paper. I never make cookies without it. I've done tests, one batch with it and one without parchment paper and the ones with parchment paper always win. You can reuse it too most of the time.

4) Always use real pure vanilla...not extract. I can tell the difference in taste when extract is used so splurge a little and buy the good stuff.

5) Use large or x-large eggs. Most recipes don't specify but in general when they call for eggs in the recipe they assume you are going to use large or x-large eggs.