Making chocolate chip cookies

[JanetRose]

Does anyone ever add extra chips?

 

[wenrob]

Who doesn’t?

 

[BrianL]

I like chunks myself - not that I make them, but that's how I like to eat them!

 

[SC Minnie]

Isn't the amount in the recipe just a suggestion?

 

[mom2rtk]

Who doesn’t?

The only time I don’t is when I eat too much of the bag while mixing.

 

[Moliphino]

I usually use less, actually. I like the taste of the cookie.

 

[Pooh2]

I use 50 percent more than the recipes calls for.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

Does anyone ever add extra chips?

Extra chips, dark chocolate and milk chocolate mixed. Use all brown sugar (no white) for a deeper caramel flavor. extra vanilla extract too.

 

[piglet1979]

I would use less if it wasn't for my kids liking more. I stick with just using 1 bag (the smaller bag). I also don't eat the cookies much once they are cooked. I like to eat the dough without the chips in it.

 

[Deb & Bill]

Milk chocolate chips, not semi-sweet.

 

[Meriweather]

yes.....love the chocolate. And I like them best right out of the oven....after that I can resist.
I buy BIG bags (Costco size) and never run out

 

[Kitty 34]

Does anyone ever add extra chips?

Never add the extra leftover because I eat them.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Well, sometimes I add cookie batter to my chocolate chips...

 

[usnuzuloose]

I add a lot of different stuff

 

[disneychrista]

Who doesn’t?

My youngest daughter. She uses LESS then it calls for.

 

[Diznygrl]

It never even occurred to me to add extra...I find the amount in the Toll House recipe to be more than sufficient. I like chocolate chips but I don't really like biting into a cookie and just getting a mouthful of chips and hardly any cookie. Then what's the point of making cookies at all, just eat a bag of chocolate chips.

 

[mrodgers]

It never even occurred to me to add extra...I find the amount in the Toll House recipe to be more than sufficient. I like chocolate chips but I don't really like biting into a cookie and just getting a mouthful of chips and hardly any cookie. Then what's the point of making cookies at all, just eat a bag of chocolate chips.

This. If they turn out correctly, then the recipe is a perfect ratio of cookie to chips for me (assuming bags are still 12 ounces. Haven't bought a bag of chips in a while.)

My problem is I have been trying to make cookies for the kids that I remember as a kid for 17ish years (standard Nestle recipe.) No matter what I do they come out cakey. I've followed a vid from Alton Brown when he made 6 batches differently changing things. His changed dramatically with 6 distinctly different looking cookies, mine, always the same, thick and cakey.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Cakey? Maybe add another egg? It's the reverse of making cookies from cake mix, where you reduce the number of eggs. Are you using baking soda and baking powder? Baking powder will make a thicker* (but not necessarily cakier**) cookie*

*per this video

**per me

 

[Searc]

Extra chips, dark chocolate and milk chocolate mixed. Use all brown sugar (no white) for a deeper caramel flavor. extra vanilla extract too.

Real vanilla extract, not the imitation crap, makes all the difference.

 

[MIGrandma]

I sometimes add a bag of salted caramel chips, toffee bits and chopped pecans. I make a double batch, but only bake one. The rest goes in freezer containers to bake fresh cookies later.