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My New Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie
I have been making Toll House Cookies since I was a kid and we won’t discuss how long ago that has been! I make a lot of cookies but I make chocolate chip the most often. I recently splurged and bought two new cookbooks, both by the awe-inspiring Dorie Greenspan. I have been drooling over her newest Around My French Table for some time and I just couldn’t resist buying her Baking: From My Home to Yours. Of course the first recipe I tried was My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies. I adjusted it a little to suit my family’s tastes and I am hooked, I now have a new favorite. I used one of Dorie’s suggested variations and added instant espresso powder. The coffee isn’t detectable but just makes the chocolate chips sing. If you are a cookbook addict like myself, I highly recommend these two cookbooks, I just can’t wait to try more of the recipes.
Recipe: My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Adapted from Dorie Greenspan Baking From My Home to Yours
Ingredients:
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup salted butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 teaspoons espresso powder
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup finely chopped walnuts
Cooking Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees. In a small bowl, add flour, salt and baking soda, mix together and set aside. In a large mixer bowl add butter and beat with an electric mixer until butter is smooth. Add sugars beating until mixed well. Add vanilla, espresso, and eggs one at a time continue beating until combined. Add flour mixture about 1/3 at at time just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts. Scoop dough into rounded tablespoonfuls onto greased or lined cookie sheets about 2 inches apart. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes. Let cookies cool about a minute on cookies sheet and then move to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Enjoy!
Miss
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Can’t go wrong with a chocolate chip cookie, especially using Dorie’s as a starting point!
I love Dorie’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, they are thinner and chewier than regular chocolate chip cookies and very good!
Chocolate chip cookies have to be my all-time favorite! They’re great with a glass of milk, a cup of coffee or even made into an ice cream sandwich
I just got Dorie’s Around my French Table and I can’t wait to start making some of the recipes. Every single one of them looks wonderful!
Mmm chocolate chips cookies! I would love to have a dozen of your cookies right now, they look so good!
I just printed this off and am going to make these the next time I make cookies. They look perfect!
I am both a chocolate chip cookie addict and a cookbook addict! I have Dorie’s baking book, but don’t have Around My French Table. I am off to Amazon to purchase it…thanks, Milisa!
You will love it! I can’t stop looking through it trying to decide what to try first.
I really need to dust off my cookbook. I have the baking one and I have never tried those CC cookies. That has got to change! Love the idea of the espresso powder.
You will love them, I think they are perfect!
At which point do you add the espresso powder?
Thanks for catching that! Add it with the vanilla. Hope you enjoy the cookies!
i LOVE flat cookies with the little wrinkles around the edge.
i also love dorie!
and your blog!
Thank you!