Cakey Chocolate Chip Cookes (Pg 198)

It had been a really long time since I'd made chocolate chip cookies. I was definitely due. This particular recipe was intriguing to me because I have a fondness for soft, chewy, cakey cookies. Unfortunately, I seem to mess them up a lot. I guess I'm a little paranoid about under-baking them so I bake them a little bit too much. Or I know I will bake them too long so I purposely take them out sooner than I want to, and then they are under baked. It is quite a delicate balance, and something I am still perfecting.

Unfortunately, I couldn't eat this cookie because I used milk chocolate chips in it. I have my weird food allergies, where apparently I can eat cookies loaded with butter but I can't have tiny chocolate chips that have the tiniest bit of milk. Go figure.

I did try some of the batter and a piece of the cookie that didn't have any chips in it. It really is quite cakey and delicious. On its own it wasn't that impressive, but of course, I couldn't tell you how the cookie is as a whole, chips and all. I've heard good reviews. They do look awfully nice, except I think I slightly overbaked them and they were a bit too dark. Like I said, a delicate balance.

Another mistake I made was apparently I made them too large. The recipe was supposed to make 3 dozen and I made only 16. Wow. I guess I misunderstood how large a "heaping tablespoon" of dough is. I guess I can't win them all.

Yield:
Recipe predicted: 3 dozen
Actual: 16 

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