chocolate therapy
I'm not ordinarily one of those people who uses chocolate as a substitute for therapy. But I have a sweet tooth, I've got a hard few weeks ahead of me school-wise, and by golly, there are just times when a batch of good cookies hits the spot. I made these the other night and they are delicious, and I sort of made up the recipe, so I'm posting it instead of trying to slam out a couple more shitty paragraphs during Daniel's (too-short) naptime. I say I "sort of" made up the recipe because it's really just my own adaptation of Mark Bittman's basic butter cookie.
Ready?
Beat until fluffy:
1 stick (8T.) butter
1 cup sugar
Add and beat some more:
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Mix dry ingredients:
2 cups flour
6 T. cocoa powder
1/2 tsp. baking powder
pinch salt
Add dry ingredients alternately with 1/3 cup milk, mixing only as much as you need to get the dough. It will be fairly stiff.
Stir in:
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup chopped walnuts
*ETA: I didn't write this because I thought it seemed obvious, but just in case there are novice cookie-bakers out there...you don't just stick the bowl of cookie dough in the oven. Not unless you're asking for a disaster, anyway. Put spoonfuls of dough evenly spaced (2" or so) on a cookie sheet and THEN bake.
Bake at 375 for 9-11 minutes, but not too long or the cookies will be dry.
Ready?
Beat until fluffy:
1 stick (8T.) butter
1 cup sugar
Add and beat some more:
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
Mix dry ingredients:
2 cups flour
6 T. cocoa powder
1/2 tsp. baking powder
pinch salt
Add dry ingredients alternately with 1/3 cup milk, mixing only as much as you need to get the dough. It will be fairly stiff.
Stir in:
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup chopped walnuts
*ETA: I didn't write this because I thought it seemed obvious, but just in case there are novice cookie-bakers out there...you don't just stick the bowl of cookie dough in the oven. Not unless you're asking for a disaster, anyway. Put spoonfuls of dough evenly spaced (2" or so) on a cookie sheet and THEN bake.
Bake at 375 for 9-11 minutes, but not too long or the cookies will be dry.
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Then another time I was making cookies when my brother was home. He sat in the kitchen while I cooked, and I was so excited to be talking to him. (I rarely see him). After everything was in the oven, I checked on the cookies, and they were very flat. They were spreading. I asked my dad what was wrong with the oven. We had some theories. Then one of my parents suggested that I might not have used quite enough flour. I checked the recipe again. It had called for "1 1/2 cup". I realized I had read it as "one half cup", instead of "one and a half cups".
I'm kind of denying that you included that paragraph in italics for me, but I could totally see your logic behind the decision, if you did.