New Year, New Cookie

    I'm calling these New Years cookies, because my New Years Resolution was to fix my cookie recipe! Over the past few months, whenever I made cookies with the same recipe (see above) they would come out cakey and puffy instead of thin and crispy! So, today I spent some time researching what makes cookies cakey, crispy and chewy, so today I present: New Years Cookies! (I wrote this little blurb before I actually tried making them. SPOILER, they came out bad. I would not recommend using this recipe.)

Recipe:

2 1/4 Cups all purpose flour

2 1/2 Tsp Baking POWDER

1 Tsp Salt

2 Sticks Butter room temp (unsalted or salted doesn't matter)

1 Cup Brown Sugar

1/2 Cup White Sugar

1 Tsp Vanilla 

2 eggs

(Chocolate Chip as needed, but about 1/2 cup.)

    

Changes

The first change is in the leavening. If you notice, I use baking powder instead of the standard baking soda. For those of you who don't know, Baking Soda is activated by liquid, and Baking Powder is activated by heat. The baking soda works because when white sugar and butter melts, they turns into a liquid and activate the leavening. With baking powder, it will be activated by heat, which I hoped would help the over spreading. 

The second change is in sugar. I used more brown sugar to get a more chewy cookie than a more cakey cookie. The white sugar will harden and make it firm, so theoretically using more brown will make then chewier. Theoretically... *hint hint*

I also baked these at 350 for about 15 minutes, because I find that they burn too easily at 375.

Outcome

I decided to bake one cookie at 375 for 10 minutes, and it burnt :(  SO... I turned the temperature down to 350. Upon inspecting our first cookie, (at 350) It was very dense and hard, so I decided to just make the rest of the batch. Heads up, this doesn't have a happy ending. I ended up throwing all of the the main batch into the garbage, because they were burnt on the edges and raw in the middle. I also noticed that limiting the white sugar made the cookies less sweet, so they ended up tasting like bitter chocolate. Definitely would not recommend using the recipe above. New Years Resolutions never really work, so I guess it makes sense that this didn't work either. Thinking this would be a success, I took a bunch of photos, so enjoy these:

   

Variations 1-3 S'mores, Snickers and Mint Chocolate Chip

After I perfected my basic cookies, I moved onto different variations of the cookie, with add in such as chocolate mint candies, peanuts, caramel, and s'mores. Here are the recipes for the different variations.

Snickers Cookie Recipe:

2 ¼ Cups all purpose flour

1 tsp. Baking soda

1 tsp. Salt 

2 sticks softened butter (can be salted)

¾ cups granulated sugar 

¾ brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

16 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 cup cocktail peanuts

1 bag of Kraft caramel candies

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit

• Combine flour baking soda and salt in a large bow
• Beat butter, sugars and  vanilla until creamy in stand mixer or with a hand mixer
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well
• Gradually beat in flour mixture
• stir in 12 oz. of chocolate chips
• Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheets 
• Flatten the teaspoon drops using two fingers to about 1 cm tall in circle shapes
• Bake for 7 minutes while chopping caramels into quarters
• Sprinkle on caramels, peanuts and chocolate chips
• Bake for the remaining 4 minutes then remove to cooling racks 
• Let sit until they are cool or serve them warm

Mint Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe

2 ¼ Cups all purpose flour

1 tsp. Baking soda

1 tsp. Salt 

2 sticks softened butter (can be salted)

¾ cups granulated sugar 

¾ brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 box Mint Chocolate Candies

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit
• Combine flour baking soda and salt in a large bowl
• Beat butter, sugars and  vanilla until creamy in stand mixer or with a hand mixer
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well
• Gradually beat in flour mixture 
• stir in chips (can add extra candies if wanted)
• Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheets 
• Flatten the teaspoon drops using two fingers to about 1 cm tall in circle shapes
• Chops up Andes Candies into quarters and sprinkle on top
• bake for 9 to 11 minutes then remove to cooling racks 
• Let sit until they are cool or serve them warm

S’mores Cookie Recipe

2 ¼ Cups all purpose flour

1 tsp. Baking soda

1 tsp. Salt 

2 sticks softened butter (can be salted)

¾ cups granulated sugar 

¾ brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 bag mini marshmallows

2 Hershey Bars

2 tsp. Cinnamon

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit

• Combine flour baking soda and salt in a large bowl
• Beat butter, sugars and  vanilla until creamy in stand mixer or with a hand mixer
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well
• Gradually beat in flour mixture 
• stir in chips
• Drop by rounded teaspoons onto ungreased baking sheets 
• Flatten the teaspoon drops using two fingers to about ½ inch tall in circle shapes
• break Hershey bars into squares
• bake for 9 to 11 minutes then remove to cooling racks
• Quickly add Marshmallows and Hershey Squares on top before cookies cool
• Let sit until they are cool or serve them warm
  

  

Welcome

A blog dedicated to cookies, baking, and anything else that strikes my fancy.  My name is Chloe and this is my blog.  I'll post pictures of the cookies I bake and write about how I made them.    

Basic Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Hi! My name is Chloe. I always loved to bake from the first time I made Christmas cookies in my grandmother’s huge kitchen. We would make probably 100 sugar cookies every year and eat all of them before New Year’s. So through that great family tradition, I started on my journey to perfecting my family chocolate chip cookie recipe, to have cookies that are truly my own. 

The first time I made the cookies, I followed the recipe down to the nail, and through making that recipe a dozen times, I decided to make a twist on the classic cookie recipe. Each month I will post a new version of the cookie recipe, and my experience making them. You may also see the occasional cupcake, cake or confection. I hope you enjoy this long and delicious journey that is baking.  If you have questions, contact me at: chloe@chloescookiecorner.com 

Original Cookie Recipe

2 ¼ Cups all purpose flour

1 tsp. Baking soda

1 tsp. Salt 

2 sticks softened butter (can be salted)

¾ cups granulated sugar 

¾ brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 eggs

12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit

• Combine flour baking soda and salt in a large bow
• Beat butter, sugars and  vanilla until creamy in stand mixer or with a hand mixer
• Add eggs one at a time, beating well
• Gradually beat in flour mixture -stir in chips
• Drop by rounded teaspoons onto un-greased baking sheets 
• Flatten the teaspoon drops using two fingers to about 1 cm tall
• bake for 9 to 11 minutes then remove to cooling racks 
• Let sit until they are cool or serve them warm. Yum!