Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Tuesdays with Dorie: My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

This week Kait of Kait's Plate chose Dorie's My best Chocolate Chip Cookies. With a name like that I had high expectations! Unfortunately these fell a little short. Or is that flat?

I made half the recipe and got 22 flat-as-a-pancake cookies. They somehow managed to be crumbly, crunchy and cakey all at once. I used dark brown sugar which gave them good colour. I also used an entire block of Whittaker's dark chocolate. So I can't figure out where these went wrong and why I didn't love them!

My ultimate chocolate chip cookie is a bit chunky, crunchy around the edges, chewy in the middle, studded with chocolate rather than filled with it, has peanuts for extra texture and a slight hint of caramel. If you know of a recipe like that please let me know :)

Thanks for an interesting pick this week Kait. I'm sorry to say these weren't a success for me but I know lots of people loved them! You can find the recipe on Kait's blog.

11 comments:

  1. Your cookie looks delicious, even if it didn't measure up to your favourite recipe.

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  2. Who took the big bite out of my cookie?

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  3. Your photo looks right out of a great party! I made the peanut butter variation and they were fluffier.

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  4. Sorry you didn't like them. They sure look good!

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  5. They look amazing! Mine were much flatter, but chewy. Weird, isn't it?

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  6. You should see mine if you want to see flat cookies! Yours look great to me. :)

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  7. I think I know the cookie you want...it's the Cook's Illustrated CCC. I have a link to them in my post...try them, I think the caramel flavor will come through for you (you can always add peanuts!)

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  8. You did nothing wrong, everyone got a cookie like this one. Still, it looks absolutely delicious!

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  9. So tempting and delicious!Cant wait to try and taste it out..Wonderful complement to me..

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  10. Pancake cookies MAY be the next big thing. Never know.

    Weren't my favorite either. Like chewy.

    Love the presentation,

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  11. I thought they were a tad too thin as well. Yours do look good, though.

    I just tried the Cook's Illustrated version that someone posted a link to in the TWD P&Q (your have to register at the site, but it's free). They were very good and met most of your criteria, except they weren't chunky per se. They weren't flat, though.

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