Day 21: 1-Bowl Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookies from Minimalist Baker's Everyday Cooking
I’ve been slacking on my blogging and my cooking this week. I had the time and energy to cook, but I just wanted to eat stuff I didn’t have to put any effort into, that I already knew was good. Every recipe I looked at seemed daunting and unappealing. So I just didn’t do it and I ate a lot of ramen and sandwiches instead.
So here I am, with ANOTHER batch of chocolate chip cookies. This is the last one, I promise. Steve and I got Indian food for dinner tonight so I figured I’d bake something for dessert and try to get back into a routine of cooking and blogging. The America’s Test Kitchen cookies went fast. I think we had eaten them all by Tuesday. We needed to replenish the cookie stash. This recipe from Minimalist Baker enticed me with the addition of sea salt sprinkled on top. I love a salty chocolate chip cookie. Turns out, Steve doesn’t really. He said they were too salty (he’s wrong). This was an easy recipe, and the result was pretty good. It makes a soft, almost cakey cookie with edges that are just crispy enough. The flavor was pleasant and the sea salt was a nice touch, but I would prefer more salt in the cookie dough instead of sprinkled on top. It did seem like something was lacking in flavor in the dough. Maybe they needed to be sweeter? I couldn’t put my finger on it. I chose to make these on the less-jumbo side expecting they would spread out while cooking, but they didn’t spread and just ended up as regular sized cookies.
I’ve been using these allergy friendly Nestle chocolate chips from the grocery store that have just 3 ingredients. They are pretty good, but weirdly they always seem melty after they are baked. Like, the cookies are completely cooled but chocolate gets everywhere as soon as you touch a chocolate chip even for a split second. I don’t get it. Anyway, the cookies were decent, but I prefer Chloe Coscarelli’s recipe for a basic chocolate chip cookie or the America’s Test Kitchen one if I’m feeling fancy, which I sometimes am.
