Essential Chocolate Chip Cookie -updated

[KerryC]

OK found another one on a different board that sounded toooo good not to put on our board!


The Essential Chocolate Chip Cookie

"This flat cookie has a lovely crisp edge, but bends before it breaks--- unlike crunchy cookies, which snap cleanly in two. Raisins both enhance the cookie's flavor, and add additonal moistness, and nuts lend their own distinct, toasty taste.

1/2 cup (one stick; 4 oz) unsalted butter
1/2 cup (3 1/4 oz) vegetable shortening (I *so* wouldn't do this; I'd do all butter. YICK: CRISCO YICK )
1/2 cup (3 1/2 oz) granulated sugar
1 cup (8 oz) brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 large egg
6 tablespoons (4 1/8 oz) light corn syrup
2 tablespoons milk (regular or low fat, not non-fat)
3 cups (10 1/2 oz) quick cooking oats (or old-fashioned oats pulsed in a food processor, to make smaller, thinner flakes)
1 1/2 cups (6 1/4 oz) unbleached all purpose flour
1 cup (5 1/4 oz) raisins
1 cup (4 oz) chopped pecans or walnuts
1 cup of chocolate chips

"Preheat oven to 375. Lightly grease (or line with parchment) two baking sheets.

"In a large bowl, cream together the butter, shortening, sugars, extracts, spices, salt, and baking soda, beating until fairly smooth. beat in the egg, scraping the bowl, then beat in the corn syrup and the milk. Stir in the oats, flour, raisins, nuts and chocolate chips.

"Drop the dough by the tablespoonful onto the prepared baking sheets. Bake the cookies for 11 minutes, until they're a light golden brown. Remove them from the oven and transfer to a rack to cool."

[Sivin]

Anything with chocolate gets my attention, but...where are the chips???!!!

[henryswife]

Where's the choc. chips ;D Alice

[Sivin]

CHOCOLATE, KERRY, WE WANT OUR CHOCOLATE ;D

[KerryC]

YOU ALL WANT CHOCOLATE CHIPS?!?!?!?!?!??
I ATE THEM ALLL! ;D

You will l HAVE to try this place out to get more chocolate!

www.sweetpalace.com/index.php

Been there and am REAL glad I don't live close!!!

Oh and BTW they DO have sugar free chocolates too! ;D

[Sivin]

But in the recipe, Kerry, where oh where do they go in the recipe?

Panting here,
Sivin

[Michael B]

They're the last ingredient.
See?

However, I'm sure you can substitute cockatiel pellets. (After all, you make them eat it.)

How could you doubt Kerry? I, on the other hand, had perfect faith in Kerry's accuracy. If it weren't for the first four ingredients that had me running from the room shrieking "Murder, murder! She wants to kill us all!", I'd rely on her completely.

The, "lovely crisp edge, but bends before it breaks" reminds me that when I was young we'd make Tollhouse cookies. We'd melt the butter before adding sometimes to give it a chewier consistency. They'd run out a bit as they cooked and we called them "elephant ears" because of the appearance. I don't know if that's a 'my family' thing, or a known variety.

[Sivin]

Ah ha! The chips! Kerry put in the chips!

[henryswife]

;D I guess she really ate the choc. chips, that's why she forgot to add them to the recipe. LOL
Micheal, we use to make the Tollhouse cookies too untill I found the 5 lb. tub ' choc. chip cookie dough by Pillsbury only $5. ' You just scoop a spoon full on the trays, and enjoy hot dunking in milk. You don't have to make the whole tub at once, is good for weeks. Get it at Cosco's, like a Sam's Club etc. They only have a sugar cookie dough at Christmas time that is nice to decorate.
OK---- call me lazy, but any short-cuts I could find Alice