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I Trawled The Depths Of Google And All I Got Was This Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
It is not a secret to anyone who has followed me here for some length of time that cooking and baking serve a functional and therapeutic purpose in my life — I grew up cooking dinner for my family when my mom worked late at night when I was in middle school, a variety of cookies were fundamental to our Christmases, and as an adult I’ve found comfort and control in cooking. It’s fun and it serves a purpose. It’s nurturing and it’s tangible, proof that I’ve manipulated chemistry, heat, and a slew of ingredients into something cohesive and occasionally beautiful. I’ve baked pound cakes, pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, meringues, Eton messes, trifles, cupcakes, birthday cakes, olive oil cakes.
But I must admit that I have a baking white whale, and it is the deceptively simple chocolate chip cookie. For years I have tried a million different recipes to find the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Some yielded cookies that are very round and puffy and immediately became rock-like in consistency, so hard you could break a tooth on them. Others spread out too much over the baking sheet. Some were too dense and heavy, others were too light and crisp.
The ideal chocolate chip cookie for me is one that is both chewy and soft, sizable and substantial but not overly dense or heavy…
