For some time now I've wanted to try to make chocolate chip cookies. I really love them, but very often when I bought some they didn't taste exactly as expected. I've recently realized, that what I actually had in mind was not the classical chocolate chip cookie, but a shortbread with chocolate chips. This explains a lot...
Still, when I decided to make my own chocolate chip cookies, I decided to give the classical American chocolate chip cookie a try, and I'm really glad I did. But more on that later.
I researched some recipes on the internet and decided on the following four:
1. Chocolate Chip Cookie from chefkoch.de, on the picture in the middle, front.
2. Best Chocolate Chip Cookies from allrecipes.com, on the picture in the middle, back.
3. Shortbread Chocolate Chip Cookies from cooks.com, on the picture on the left side.
4. Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies from healthycooking.suite101.com, on the picture on the right side.
All recipes were relatively easy to make and all were edible :-)
My personal favourite was to my surprise the classical American chocolate chip cookie (no. 2). I loved the texture. It was not nearly as chewy as some of the store bought variety but soft and the taste was great.
I was a little disappointed by the shortbread chocolate chip cookies (no. 3). They didn't taste like shortbread at all. I probably should have let them bake for a few minutes longer (or flatten them more) which might have helped with the consistency. The taste was ok (kind of like stracciatella ice cream), but also a bit boring. Especially compared to the other cookies. Surprisingly, a lot of people at the office seemed to prefer them. It just goes to show that there's no accounting for taste...
No. 1 was ok, especially on the second day. They seemed a bit dry when just cooled down but developed a nicer, softer consistency on the second day. Don't know what would have happened on the third day - none of them survived as long...
A nice variation was no. 4 with orange zest, even though they didn't taste like shortbread very much. But still the texture was smooth and crumbly and the taste pleasant.
All in all, I'll definitely make no. 2 again, maybe no. 4. No. 1 was nice enough in itself, but compared to no. 2 they just didn't measure up. No. 3 was disappointing, but I might try a different recipe for shortbread at one point.
1. Chocolate Chip Cookie
from chefkoch.de
200g butter (room temperature)
280g sugar
40g sugar syrup (you'll find a recipe to make your own sugar syrup at the end of this post)
16g vanilla sugar
2 eggs
400g flour
1 tsp baking soda
0.5 tsp salt
200g chocolate chips
100g walnuts, roughly chopped
Cream together the butter with the sugar, sugar syrup and vanilla sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at the time.
In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking soda and salt.
Combine the butter mix with the flour mix, add the chocolate chips and walnuts and quickly mix everything together.
Let the dough rest in the fridge in an airtight container for one day.
On the next day preheat the oven to 180°C. Cover a baking tray with baking paper. Form about 50 little balls from the dough and distribute them on the baking tray leaving gaps of about 3cm between each ball.
Bake in the middle of the oven for about 15min.
2. Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
from allrecipes.com
115g butter (room temperature)
100g white sugar
110g brown sugar
8g vanilla sugar
1 egg
190g flour
2g baking soda
5ml hot water
2g salt
170g chocolate chips
50g walnuts, roughly chopped
Preheat the oven to 175°C.
Cream together the butter, white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg.
Dissolve the baking soda in the hot water and add to the dough along with the salt.
Sift in the flour and add the chocolate chips and walnuts.
Cover a baking tray with baking paper and drop large spoonfuls of the batter onto the baking tray, leaving large gaps between each cookie (at least 5cm).
Bake in the middle of the oven for about 10min until the edges of the cookies are nicely brown.
3. Shortbread Chocolate Chip Cookies
from cooks.com
200g butter (room temperature)
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
0.5 tsp salt
4.5 cups flour
80g chocolate chips
130g hazelnuts, roughly chopped
Preheat the oven to 175°C.
Cream together the butter and powdered sugar. Add the vanilla extract and salt.
Sift in the flour and mix until well blended.
Add the chocolate chips and hazelnuts.
Cover a baking tray with baking paper. Form balls of 2.5cm diameter and flatten to about 4cm diameter rounds.
Bake in the middle of the oven for about 18min until light brown.
4. Chocolate Chip Shortbread Cookies
from healthycooking.suite101.com
50g butter (room temperature)
0.5 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp orange zest
0.5 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg
2 tbsp coffee cream (fat content of 12.5%)
1 tbsp buttermilk
1.5 cups flour
0.5 tsp baking powder
0.5 tsp salt
100g chocolate chips
50g walnuts, roughly chopped
Preheat the oven to 175°C.
Cream together the butter and powdered sugar. Add the vanilla extract and orange zest. Beat in the egg, coffee cream and buttermilk.
In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking powder and salt.
Combine the wet and dry ingredients and beat until well mixed. Add the chocolate chips and walnuts.
Cover a baking tray with baking paper. Form balls of 2.5cm diameter and flatten to about 4cm diameter rounds.
Bake in the middle of the oven for about 18min until light brown.
Sugar Syrup
250 ml water
250g sugar
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