Chocolate Chip Cookie
The Origin of Everything
Makeovers can be the main thrill of one’s life, giving a sense of control in a world full of chaos. An adage from my most favorite movie, like, ever, I found it difficult to bring that wisdom into my kitchen. Until the end of 2008, I only baked chocolate chip cookies. Assembling and mixing the ingredients, then forming perfectly round little cookies was the nexus of my sanity, my zen, my peace in a world full of papers about causal inference, and worksheets full of vlookups. In fact, I was pretty sure those cookies were why I made friends and went on dates.
Thus, 2009 was the year of the cookie counterfactual — every month, I tried out a new recipe and (sometimes) shared the results. I made over my risk-averse cookie soul. More butter than my body weight, more eggs than we’ve had Presidents, and more kilos of flour than stolen horse in Bad Boys 1 passed through my kitchen than I have previously admitted. Ever notice why I’m still wearing the same stuff I wore in ’08? Follow the flour trail.
By the end of 2009, I was ready to make the following conclusions:
- Friends and dates are correlated, but not caused, by divulging the secret ingredient in my cookie recipe (why the heck not — it’s CINNAMON!)
- Burning, under-baking, and ruining what coulda-been-great create a different type of (post-trauma) zen, especially after the NYFD arrives/leaves
- I’d rather live out a counterfactual than read about it, and writing a blog is more therapeutic than writing a macro
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: 48 cookies
Time: 50 minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup softened unsalted butter
⅔ cups brown sugar
⅔ cups white sugar
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1½ cups all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups chocolate chips
2 cups rolled oats
½ cup chopped walnuts
1 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°. In one large bowl, mix butter, brown, and white sugar. Add eggs and vanilla, stirring into the ingredients without over-beating it.
2. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon. Mix into the wet mixture a bit at a time, stirring until smooth.
3. Add in the oats, chocolate chips, and walnuts. Form rounded tablespoons of cookie dough, and bake for 9-10 minutes, or until golden brown on bottom of cookie.
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Tiffany said “stolen horse.”
Also, I am sure this is not the whole cookie story. For I am sure that the particular chocolate chips used in this recipe is factor in their deliciousness.
True. I use Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Chips + 40% stolen horse.