What’s not to love about chocolate chip cookies?
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When it comes to comfort-food cravings, chocolate chip cookies float right to the top of my list. Since May 15 is National Chocolate Chip Day, I thought I’d enumerate just a few of the reasons why this ingredient is one of the most beloved.
More than a delicious mix-in, the chocolate chip is an example of a great result from an idea that didn’t quite pan out the way it was envisioned. The story, the way my mother tells it, is that a woman was going to make chocolate cookies, but didn’t have the right chocolate. Thinking outside the box, she chopped up some other chocolate and tossed it in the dough, assuming that the chocolate would melt and disperse itself evenly throughout. Though the intended result wasn’t achieved, a delicious product of ingenuity was born!
Inspired by this story, I’ve used all sorts of alternative sweets in lieu of chips: Cadbury Mini Eggs, hand-chopped Swiss chocolate, M&Ms, Reese’s Pieces, and once, candy corn (whose outcome was not as delicious or successful as I had hoped). Since necessity is the mother of all invention, there are now recipes for vegan, gluten-free, and even sugar-free chocolate chip cookies. This way, not even dietary restrictions can keep us all from enjoying them hot from the oven with a glass of milk straight out of the fridge.
The only thing I enjoy as much as eating chocolate chip cookies is baking them. Now that the temperature is starting to climb, I have moved from baking cookies in the oven (which heats up the whole house), to using the toaster oven for those urgent I’m-having-a-craving times. As far as ingredients are concerned, I always use butter and eggs (as opposed to their more-healthful but less-delicious alternatives); I’d rather eat fewer cookies that taste better. I also prefer to grease my baking sheets with butter (as opposed to a nonstick cooking spray), mostly because we always have butter on hand for baking, but also because I don’t like the taste of the cooking spray.
To avoid a tedious and lengthy clean-up process, while the stand mixer is beating the wet mixture “until creamy” and while the eggs are being “beaten well,” I put away the ingredients that have already been used. Once the first sheet of cookies have gone into the oven, I start to clean up the mixing bowls, assisted by anyone who has volunteered for the coveted task of licking the batter off of the beaters. This way, once the cookies are adequately cooled, the kitchen has also been cleaned up and the dishes are done.
What is your favorite recipe for chocolate chip cookies?
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they tast good and mak you feel good
I love cookies. That’s all I have to say! =D
You dumb yamster, i love chocolate chip cookies, so stop trying to force them on me, i only be eating Mrs Fields cookies from CVS, there the best cookies i ever taste way better then Oreo’s
What’s not to love about chocolate chip cookies? For me it’s having irritable bowel syndrom. The dairy and the chocolate,the fat content..welll would keep me shut in my room cramped over running to the bathroom at random times.not to mention the bloating and feeling really uncomfortable.
yum cookies are soooooooo good. just looking at the pic made me jungry. hahaha. but its dairy and sometimes it just might bother your stomach. it happens cause some dairy stuff bothers me. but i still luvvvvv cookies
They make you fat…that’s what.
The only thing to not love about chocolate chip cookies is the chocolate chips cuz they have the emulsifier lecithin in them and lecithin in chocolate is like a sin
I think chocolate chip cookies are the best kind of cookis there is-it’s waaay better than OREOS
Chocolate chip cookies are my fffffaaaaavvvvorite cookies in the whole wide world.They are ABSOUTELY,POSITIVELY,WONDERFUL!!
what a coincidence! I just made a whole bunch of them this morning – and already eaten 5 of them
What the heck???
Yumm, I’ve always loved chocolate chip cookies. In fact Cookie is one of my nicknames
<3
cookies are cookies. but my favorites are the double stuffed oreos! gotta luv em!!!!
chocalate chip cookies r the bomb!
Answer? cavities……it hurts …..
I love chocolate chip cookies they are yummy
I have an awesome chocolate chip recipe! My brothers love em!
Everything, I would eat them everyday if somehow psyichally like I could as a child. I love them and their an awesome comfort food they make me think of the good times the way beer does that for some people.
I actually don’t like CC cookies, they’re not horrible, but they’re never first on my list. If they’re without milk they’re no good, whereas I enjoy many other cookies plain.
cookies are one of my favorite comforting foods but when ever i am done eating them i always feel fat
…umm why is this is in the home and garden section
The chocolate part. You may hear “You can never have too much chocolate,” but this is a lie started by chocoholics. I like chocolate every now and then, especially if it’s filled with something that isn’t chocolate (like peanut butter, nuts, etc.) but don’t give me a steady stream of it. Thanks to my dad, a chocoholic, I burned out on chocolate as a kid. There was at least a couple of years there were every desert we had had to be some kind of chocolate desert.
When is National Penut Butter Chip Cookiee Day. Now that’s something to celebrate! Why? Because it’s not the boring chocolate chip.
Im so glad she invented them…these are my favorite cookies ever!!!
Only one thing.
THEY. MAKE. YOU. OBESE.
Other than that, they’re complete chocolaty goodness!
Sorry to hear that, Maria, but we f*cking love them. Chocolate chip cookies > Oreo’s
This makes me want to break my diet and go make some cookies!
:/
am i the only person that can’t stand chocolate chips, in anything.
You’re all weird
well… they make u fat
Yummy! My mom is making cookies too. But they are made by tea. It is kind of bitter and there’s no sweetness. But I think yours look good
that picture look revolting!!!
what’s not to like abou them.
they make you fat, they have high sugar salt and fat content.
yamster you do talk crap a lot of the time!!
Yum ! Chocolate Chip Cookies, what’s not to love seriously?
nothing
nothing realy
They are my favorite!
I’ve sampled many different kinds and many different styles, but no matter what, they remain a great treat and the best thing ever baked!
BTW, that picture is making me crave for them…
When I was pregnant one of the thins I craved was chocolate chip cookies from Albertsons. I would eat several every week.
i looove chocolatechip cookies. ever since i started college i’ve been learning to bake from scratch. and in all honestly i never knew how difficult it was to actually make excellent cookies. the numerous recipies i’ve tried, different techniques, all producing completely different results lol. i’ve never been able to produce the same cookie twice lmao. but i feel like im getting there, my last batch was devilishly delicious and i had to make up half of the ratios after i decided to substitute an ingredient.
a few tips though, never grease the cookie sheet, the cookies have enough butter to grease them selves! and dark brown sugar = rich flavor, granulated = sweetness
currently im experimenting with the effects of cream of tartar ; )
lmao make u fat? if u eat them and dont eat anything after that u wont gain weight.
ive been eating them my whole life and im stick thin(unfortunately)
Um, it’s a little hard to love something that will make you overweight and unhealthy.
There are more important things to think about.
Well, chocolate chip cookies only make you fat if you eat too many. Stop being so stupid!
But I’m not a big fan of chocolate. If chocolate chip cookies are my only choice, I normally pick out/spit out the chocolate chips. They’re just too chocolaty! Yuck!
I don’t really like them. I like oatmeal and raisin so much more.
those cookies look great as a mother i love baking them for my kids but i make oatmeal chocolate chip cookies because they are healthier than regular cookies.Cookies alone dont make you obese its everything you eat. Dont punish your body by taking away its cravings because you will wind up suffering more.
As long as the cookies aren’t cheap, Chocolate Chip is the best!
Chocolate chip cookies are good, but they can make you fatter just as anything can make you fatter. They also give you pimples,but that’s the chocolate part. Other than that, nothing! YUMMY
Happy CHOCALATE CHIP KOOKIE DAYY
J <3 ‘S K0oKies
I hate chocolate chop cookies.
I don’t know if it’s true but I’ve read that Organic Chocolate is good for you (and me
. But any other kind can’t be all that bad if it tastes good. That’s my theory anyway.
Happy Chocolate Chip Day!
My favorite: Mint Chocolate Chips
and the other real ingredients
Did you know that what we call a “cookie” is called a biscuit in Scotland? And a cookie over there is what we would call a biscuit here? It’s worth mentioning that “chips” in Britain mean french fries, and “crisps” mean what we call potato chips. So when you’re traveling, be careful what you ask for!
I love the extra chunky double chocolate chip cookies, where the dough is brown/black and chocolaty and there are tons of chocolate chunks.
They are the best….as long as you don’t overdo ‘em. Like pretty much everything in life!
Yummy yoummy cookies in me tummy.
I love them cookies, especially around certain times of the month. But ya gotta have the milk.
Me I use parchment paper. Makes the clean up so much better and the cookies don’t burn. (Well except for when I have forgotten to turn on the timer and then wonder what the heck is that buring smell.)
Nestles Toll House is hands down the favourite chocolate chip cookie making tasting cookies.
When I eat them it’s all about the chocolaty taste. It’s very comforting , I can only eat so much though or I start to feel sick. Anyway I know their fattening , but hey what good comfort food is not. Live a little if you love the cookies. Good lord who cares if there fattening, made with this or that. That is known;’ so enjoy the chocolate chips if you can eat them. In fact I’m gonna go and make some now. HMHM
The gooey goodness of the chocolate chip cookies.
read this man http://tnij.org/chocol
Tell this to my uncle; he doesn’t…that’s right…doesn’t like chocolate. :/
Weird!
mmmi love cookies
thay call me at night ! can’t get anuff so i don’t make them much but every thing you love you can put in at cranberrys and blueberrys is good in cookie s .Im going to the store and get fixings for a batch of cookie stuff right now! Thinks. Louann
what’s not to like? the headache I get from the chocolate.
Chocolate Chip Cookies Rule The World!
Cookies Are King!
the chocolate chips is the worst part of any chocolate chip cookie
the only thing not to love with SOME brands of chocochip cookies are the hydroginated fats and oils taht not only make you fat but really hurt the way your mind functions, and again depending on teh company the cruelty brought to an animal to produce milk or an egg.
Wow. I must admit, cookies are the epitome of euphoria in my world. Cookies in general are teasers! Just talking about them makes my mouth water. Anyone up for a trip to the cookie factory?