Chocolate chip cookies

One of the first things I made when I started to get back into baking were chocolate chip cookies. I have a friend and former housemate to thank for this. She is quite the baker and I have been privy to her talents when it comes to cake decorating as well as her ability to make the simpler delights such as chocolate chip cookies. When she left Vancouver she gifted me a lot of things including her baking ingredients and tools. Amongst the items were some Nestle Toll House chocolate chips and a hand mixer. Armed with these and other essentials I made my first batch of chocolate chip cookies from scratch, having previously used pre-made cookie dough from the supermarket for such a task. I used the recipe on the chocolate chips packet, which can also be found here. My first batch was a success minus the blowing up of a very low powered hand mixer not built for such a task. I haven’t looked back and armed with a new hand mixer, whilst longing for my very own sparkly KitchenAid stand mixer, I have continued to sporadically make these cookies whenever the mood suits or the requests for them come. Occasionally I will set aside a chunk of the dough and refrigerate it to add to some ice cream for my own version of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. I haven’t managed to find the Nestle Toll House chocolate chips since the first time I made the cookies so instead I have used Decadent, Hersey or Baker’s brands and each have worked well. The sweet tooth in me also means that I tend to be quite generous when it comes to how many chocolate chips I add to the recipe. On a few occasions I have used white chocolate as well as milk chocolate chips. This weekend I made a batch using a new cookie sheet I had picked up from Michaels. 

I can’t think of a better way to finish off my Sunday night then with some freshly baked cookies and a glass of chilled milk.