Crafty Critique: chocolate chip cookies

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Friday Night Chocolate Chip Cookies

Friday night I decided I really wanted some warm, homemade chocolate chip cookies. I had a specific type of cookie in mind. I wanted those tall, plump chocolate chip cookies with just a hint of salt. You know...the ones that look like these:

Photo from Sing for Your Supper

I didn't have a recipe for said cookies, so I googled "tall, plump cookies," clicked on images and came up with this recipe from a blog called Sing for Your Supper. I looked around and it's a fun little blog! I especially want to dig deeper into some of the For Dogs Only recipes. :)

Anyway, at 10:30pm I got baking! (P.S. These pictures are terrible because they were taken at 10:30 at night in my poorly lit kitchen. My apologies!)

The recipe called for melted butter (as opposed to softened), an extra egg yolk and a full tablespoon of vanilla to make the cookies bake tall and plump instead of spreading out. Once your ingredients are all mixed up, you put a full 1/4 cup of dough per cookie onto your baking sheet. Since my 1/4 measuring cup is permanently located in the cat food to make sure my fat cat doesn't get any fatter, I decided to use an ice cream scoop. It worked great!

What didn't work so well? The cookies didn't stay plump. They spread out.

Way out.

I don't quite know what went wrong. I don't think I can really blame it on the recipe since theirs turned out just beautifully. I think it may be one of two things.

I added an extra little bit of salty to get that salty-sweet taste I was dreaming of.
I didn't have any pure vanilla extract on hand and, since it was 10:30 at night, I had to use the imitation vanilla I found in the cabinet.

Or I guess it could have been any number of things that I didn't think of! Lol. Any of you have an opinion? I'd love to try the recipe again and see if I can get them to stay plump if you have any ideas!