C is for Cookie

I baked.  For this weekend’s baking adventure I decided against whipping up a cake and opted for rolling out cookies, and since I was craving chocolate, the natural choice was to bake chocolate chip cookies.  The easy choice would be to go get one of those pre-packaged break and bake cookies but I was feeling adventurous and wanted to bake my own from scratch.  Now, I’m not a fan of crispy cookies.  I prefer my cookies to be soft and slightly chewy, maybe with a bit of a crispy edge.  Not all cookie recipes say if they end up crispy or not, so knowing this, I started my chocolate chip cookie recipe hunt.  Halfway through my online recipe surfing, I decided I wanted to add walnuts.  I wasn’t sure if just tossing them into a recipe that didn’t include them would mess up the result, so I restarted my search.  About a half hour later I was still coming up empty.  I couldn’t find anything that sounded fantastic.  I felt like Monica in that episode of Friends where she was trying to figure out Phoebe’s grandmother’s amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe.  In the end it turns out it was the original Nestle Toll House recipe, and that was when I had my brilliant conclusion: just make the original Toll House chocolate chip cookies.  Duh.  So that’s what I did and they came out beautifully.  More importantly they’re exactly as I wanted them: soft and chewy chocolate chippity goodness.  Milk and cookies all week!