There has been this cookie in my mind's eye. The one that is soft but only in the center - the edges don't quite give up that easily, they maintain some structure.
There must be chocolate involved. It has to be chunked, not chips. Chips are for, well... amateurs.
THE Chocolate Chunk cookie - it was a classic that needed a new look. It needed some updates, as it was starting to look like Peggy instead of Joan. She needed to show her best assets in order to get the respect she deserves.
After Christmas and New Years it was SO hard for me to get right back into baking so soon - because the last thing I want is all of ^ THAT hanging around in my kitchen. Last week THE Chocolate Chunk Cookie made it's appearance at breakfast more than once, sitting oh so cutely on the new plates my Dad got for me. It looks great next to the Porcelain Bialetti that Molly gifted me (she knows me so well...) and it's so photogenic don't you think?
I have happily decided to stop testing, and I think I have made it to the final draft of THE Chocolate Chunk Cookie. It's everything that I was thinking it would end up as - tender, sweet, buttery. This cookie has TWO kinds of chocolate so it's never boring you, as well as more brown sugar than white making it more complex - byzantine if you will. Salt for those with a "salt tooth", naked for the purists.
If you ask me to make them for you I will, but I will draw up a contract stating that you take every damn one from my kitchen OR ELSE. I am like a Roger Sterling drawn to it's sweet, sweet curves - abandoning all appropriate behavior for a moment of bliss.
mmmgggh. coo-kie coo-kie coo-kie!
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