Urban Pioneer
• Jan. 26, 2006 - My Chocolate Chip Cookie Saga
My friend picked me up for Bible Study on Tuesday night. On the
way, she mentioned that she had just had made some chocolate chip
cookies and had some right before she left. Of course she didnt
bring me any, she is CCC (chocolate chip cookie) addict like I am, and
said if she had they probably wouldnt have made it anyway. (Nice
friend) Well, the thought of warm, goey , chocolate chip cookies
wouldn't leave my brain. I turned down the lemon cookies and
popcorn that were for snack at the study. I thought about CCC
yesterday as I went through my day, I thought about them as I was
at Walmart (my Walmart isnt a super Walmart), but thought they might
have chocolate chips, the only ingredient that was preventing me from
making my own, but I decided I would be good and not get them.
Today, I check my email...there was a email update for a blog that I
had subscribed to about organic chocolate..MMMM....checked out a few
more blogs and came across a couple entries about
CCC....aaaahhhh.! The clock ticks, it gets closer to lunch.....I
cant get CCC of the brain, my blood sugar levels are dropping, I
start scouring the baking cabinet...maybe there is a bag of choc. chips
hidden somewhere, even though I had just cleaned it out last week, then
suddenly I spot it... a box that my mother had sent home with me at
Christmas....Hershey's semisweet baking bars...redemption. I grab
the box, hug it to myself and get out four small bars. Since I am
trying to cut out refined sugars...I adapted my Chocolate Chip Cookie
recipe, here is the recipe and what I did in parenthesis:
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup shortening (i used half shortening and half butter)
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar, packed (for the sugars, I just used 3/4 cup total of Demara (raw) sugar)
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 tsp salt (i used 1 tsp)
1 tsp baking soda
2 cups of flour (I used 1 cup of whole wheat and 1 cup unbleached flour)
6 oz chocolate chips (I used semi sweet bars, broken up)
Cream together shortening and sugars, add egg 1 at a time and add
vanilla. In a separate bowl (I never bother with this, I just
throw it into the mixing bowl) sift together dry ingredients except
chocolate chips. Add to wet ingredients, mix well add chocolate
chips. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or done.
The verdict! Pretty good, the whole wheat gives is a little bit
of a nutty flavor and it satisfied my desire for CCC!
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