Comments on: Back to Basics: the original chocolate chip cookie http://zoebakes.com/2008/01/01/back-to-basics-the-original-chocolate-chip-cookie/ Eat dessert first Thu, 23 May 2013 20:37:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: zoe http://zoebakes.com/2008/01/01/back-to-basics-the-original-chocolate-chip-cookie/#comment-251 zoe Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:49:05 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=140#comment-251 Great ideas! I love the addition of coffee to break up the sweet!

Thanks Jon.

Zoë

]]> By: Jon Spielberg http://zoebakes.com/2008/01/01/back-to-basics-the-original-chocolate-chip-cookie/#comment-250 Jon Spielberg Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:15:42 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=140#comment-250 try a little less white sugar, add 1 tablespoon real maple syrup, and 1 ounce of fresh but cool coffee or espresso. Friends will go crazy trying to figure out why yours are so much better than theirs.

]]> By: tracy martin http://zoebakes.com/2008/01/01/back-to-basics-the-original-chocolate-chip-cookie/#comment-130 tracy martin Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:15:00 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=140#comment-130 i am so excited to get these cookie tips! alas – my new year has started off at such a pace that all i have TIME for is baking your bread!!! (did i EVER think i’d say THOSE words??! no, never.)
hopefully things will settle some in the next weeks and i can get to trying insulated cookie pans, parchment paper, room temp. butter and eggs and maybe less flour and more sugar!
thanks for all your help and TIME with this, my quest for the perfect cookie …will keep you posted!
happy new year!
tracy

]]> By: zoe http://zoebakes.com/2008/01/01/back-to-basics-the-original-chocolate-chip-cookie/#comment-69 zoe Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:52:18 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=140#comment-69 Hi Laura,

Thanks for the recipe and the tip!!! These cookies sound great. The extra sugar and butter will make for a cookie that is probably slightly crisper and spreads more. I love it when they caramelize around the edges!

Happy New Year!!! Zoë

]]> By: Laura Silver http://zoebakes.com/2008/01/01/back-to-basics-the-original-chocolate-chip-cookie/#comment-68 Laura Silver Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:11:00 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=140#comment-68 Hi Zoe,
Hi Zoe,
I came to your website to check out your beautiful holiday cookies, and couldn’t resist adding my two cents to the Tollhouse cookie discussion. Jeffrey Steingarten, in his hilarious book “It Must’ve Been Something I Ate,” devotes a chapter to the perfect chocolate-chip cookie, which is a modified Nestle’s recipe. It has less flour and more sugar than the package recipe:
2 cups all-pupose flour
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 lb unsalted butter (1 cup)
3/4 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 cup dark brown sugar, firmly packed
3/4 cup granulated white sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
2 Tbs. water
1 egg
1 1/2 cups choc. morsels

It’s a great recipe. I also have one bit of advice that was passed along to me. Always save some chocolate chips to add to the batter at the end, when the last few scoops always seem to be chip-free.

Laura

]]> By: zoe http://zoebakes.com/2008/01/01/back-to-basics-the-original-chocolate-chip-cookie/#comment-64 zoe Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:13:13 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=140#comment-64 Hi Larry,

Wow, that would make for a very subtle honey flavor indeed! Yet another item to add to the errata sheet. Thanks for pointing this out.

As for the recipe it should be 2/3 cup honey, not sugar. That will be added in step 2 with the water.

Thanks again!!! Zoë

]]> By: larry silva http://zoebakes.com/2008/01/01/back-to-basics-the-original-chocolate-chip-cookie/#comment-63 larry silva Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:39:00 +0000 http://zoebakes.com/?p=140#comment-63 I have a chocolate bread question pertaining to your “Artisan bread in 5…Book” and this was the only place on your web-site that i could find to leave a comment or question. Your chocolate bread recipe on page 211 mentions in the write up (prior to the ingrediants) that “the honey is subtle” but no where in the ingrediant list or recipe is honey mentioned. Am i missing something??? I am making the bread now w/o honey.

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