Meriweather
Being a Nana is my superpower
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- Mar 31, 2002
I like to under bake mine by a couple of minutes.
I've seen that video, and none of those look like the Nestles recipe from my childhood, that is what I want to make. I have hunted to try and see if the recipe changed any and can't find that info. Only difference is it use to be Crisco, but we didn't use Crisco when I was a kid either, it was butter.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
I didn't realize that the fake was still sold at retail. I guess my usual stores don't carry it. I mostly use either Lockhead ("Cooks" retail brand) or Penzey's. (I use rather a lot of vanilla, because I like to put it in hot cocoa.)Real vanilla extract, not the imitation crap, makes all the difference.
No! I prefer the dough part of the cookie, with very few chips. I add the normal amount of chips if I'm making them to share with others, but if it's just me and the kids I skimp on chips.
Oh! Change the ratio of sugars - more brown, less white. I don't know my mom's recipe, and my sister claims she doesn't have it, but that sounds like what we had growing up.I want thin and chewy with golden crispy edge. It's almost like the cookie part melts around the chocolate chips rather than the chips being in the cookie. No crunch at all, it should be a thin airy chewy center and I can not for the life of me get it right
Yup, that was in the Alton Brown show. I did change the ratio of sugar. Changed the quantities of sugar, changed the flour quantity, changed the flour itself, melted butter, soft butter, cold straight from the fridge butter, margarine, beat it senseless, beat it just enough to incorporate, 2 eggs, 1 egg, 3 eggs, I have tried everything and my chocolate chip cookies are terrible, LOL.Oh! Change the ratio of sugars - more brown, less white. I don't know my mom's recipe, and my sister claims she doesn't have it, but that sounds like what we had growing up.
I've seen that video, and none of those look like the Nestles recipe from my childhood, that is what I want to make. I have hunted to try and see if the recipe changed any and can't find that info. Only difference is it use to be Crisco, but we didn't use Crisco when I was a kid either, it was butter.
I've hashed it out in cookie threads here in the past as well. I've tried every suggestion I've been given, they all come out thick and cakey. I even when I got divorced and was at my mother's for a bit, thought fantastic, I can try cookies on a gas oven now as that was the one thing I didn't have access to. No go.
I want thin and chewy with golden crispy edge. It's almost like the cookie part melts around the chocolate chips rather than the chips being in the cookie. No crunch at all, it should be a thin airy chewy center and I can not for the life of me get it right.
This is straight off the chip bag recipe and the same as I find in an internet search, but the just do not come out the way they did in my childhood. Remember the commercials back in the 80s and they would pull one in half fresh out of the oven and the chocolate would be gooey strings of melted chocolate hanging down, those are the ones I want to make and instead they always come out cakey.