Chocolate Chip Cookies!

I have one guilty pleasure above all others: Chocolate Chip Cookies. There’s just something about the buttery dough and the interlaced chocolate and the…excuse me, my keyboard just shorted out from too much drooling.

I’m more of a chewy-cookie-fiend, though I’ve never turned away a crispy. I like them warm and choose not to destroy their integrity with dunking in milk (ugh! – though don’t tell my wife that I judge her on her dunking habits). Thicker is better than thinner. Milk chocolate is fine, dark is better, and white is an insult to the great-cookie-baker in the sky.

The best, bow-down chocolate chip cookies come from Specialty’sBakery (semi-sweet). They have something in there that’s derived from crack (you CAN’T stop eating them), and they’re baked in some Sci-Fi manner (how do they stay warm and gooey for HOURS?). These are the treats I allow myself after hitting a major milestone or a particularly hard day, because anything this decadent cannot be ethical.

My wife makes a ruddy good chocolate chip cookie too – which was a secret criterion of my wife-selection-checklist, since I’m not much of a baker. What I love is that (1) it makes 10-11 dozen (aka cookies for a year!!) and (2) with all the oatmeal/nuts/n’stuff they’ve got a texture that’s beyond-compare.

Here is her recipe *(not responsible for any weight gain you experience by reading onward):

1 pound butter

2 cups granulated sugar

2 cups brown sugar

4 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 teaspoons baking powder

2 teaspoons baking soda

4 ¼ cups flour

4 cups uncooked oatmeal

3 cups walnuts (or pecans, if you’re feeling southern)

2 x 12 oz bag of chocolate chips

1. Cream butter and sugar
2. Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.
3. Mix together baking powder, baking soda, and flour; then mix into sugar mixture
4. Sit in oatmeal, nuts, and chocolate chips
5. Make golf ball-sized dough balls (~ 2” diameter)
6. Place on ungreased cookie sheet and flatten.
7. Bake ~8 minutes @ 375^o
8. Transfer to cooling rack

Anyhow, I’m way too hungry to keep blogging. I need to go find the wife.

Honey, where are you?

Any of y’all have a smashing chocolate cookie recipe you wanna share?