A Breather

Chocolatechipcookie

 

Home with my mother's chocolate chip cookies.

This is a repost so I can catch up with family…

 

Flour, sugar, brown sugar, butter, eggs, chocolate chips, walnuts, vanilla, pinch of salt and baking powder…  The ingredients are usually something like that when making chocolate chip cookies.  In France chocolate chips are hard to find, unless you go to the exotic food section of a grocery store, a specialty food shop, or chop your own chocolate. 

Imagine chocolate chunks instead of chips.

 

When I return to France I usually toss a couple of bags of chocolate chips into my suitcase.

 

 

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Though I rarely make chocolate chip cookies.  Terrible American ex-pat Mother that I am! The reason I do not make them is because my Mother's are the best and mine never turn out like hers. Please do not tell me to follow her recipe, she uses the recipe straight off the package (Toll House) which is darn good obviously. My problem is I don't follow recipes. I like to invent them, though my chocolate chip cookies never turn out the same twice. Do yours?

I'll stick to my chestnut soup, and Roquefort endive tart.  That I can do…

but it doesn't satisfy the sweet tooth.

Thank goodness for yogurt with chocolate chips tossed in. It tastes good every single time.

Photos:  My Mother's chocolate chip cookies, that she makes five days a week. Now you know my secret to gaining weight each time I return to America.

 



Comments

10 responses to “A Breather”

  1. Corey, can you video-record your Mom making the cookies, so you can study her technique? That, plus strict adherence to the recipe, might help you achieve her excellence!

  2. Here’s one of my favorite easy, fool-proof recipes. I found it on a canister of Quaker Oats in the 1970s, and figure that since the manufacturer wanted to sell more product, it’d be a great cookie (and it is!). Plus, with all those oats and nuts, it’s practically a health-food, right? That’s my story and I’m sticking to it! BTW, I usually double the recipe 🙂
    CHOCOLATE OATMEAL COOKIES
    ½ cup (= 1 stick) butter or vegetable shortening
    1 cup brown sugar
    1 egg
    1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
    ¾ cup flour
    1 teaspoon baking soda
    ⅓ cup ground almonds
    ¼ cup unsweetened dry cocoa (powder)
    1½ cup quick oats
    36 whole almonds (optional)
    Preheat over to 350°F. Grease cookie sheet(s).
    Cream butter, sugar, egg and vanilla. Add flour, soda, almonds and cocoa to batter; stir in oats. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet. (Optional: press a whole almond into the top of each cookie). Bake 15 minutes @ 350°F — don’t let them start to burn, because that will make them taste slightly bitter. Remove cookies from baking sheet with spatula onto wire cooling racks. Accompany with a glass of ice-cold milk.

  3. What a treat for you. I follow a recipe I once saw in a magazine.

  4. No kidding, I just started to read this while waiting for oven to preheat for the chocolate chip cookies I am baking for my mother!

  5. Jacklynn Lantry

    I want a cookie.

  6. I remember my mom making these. Yum!
    We use the Toll House recipe, but they don’t come out the same as in the U.S. The butter is different? The flour? Hard to say.

  7. Home made chocolate chip cookies are the best. Today it’s a holiday in France and the girls are baking chocolate chip cookies, the smell alone is divine! We chop the chocolate with a giant meat cleaver, works a treat!

  8. This makes me want to make cookies this weekend. I can’t imagine the life where you make these 5 days a week – I am envious…Enjoy being home!
    PS: I use Fanny Farmer’s Baking Cookkbook recipe for mine. The baking soda is mixed with an equal amount of hot water…

  9. When in France, I wanted to make chocolate chip cookies for Arnaud, but I couldn’t find the choc chips in a large enough bag and what I found was costly. Will know better next time. I should send your mum some of my Dominican vanilla! Hope your cold is better.

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