I like my chocolate chip cookies soft and chewy so I found this recipe on the spiffy cookie blog and yes, they are soft and chewing and disappearing fast. We have visitors this week, our first Idaho visitors since we moved so I wanted to make sure our kitchen was "stocked up", if you know what I mean. These cookies are passing the taste test so I can safely put them on my blog now. Our visitors are my brother and his wife from Boise, so it's really family visiting - not like I need to make a good impression or anything. But it's still my nature to make sure the kitchen is stocked. As far as Idaho visitors go, on Monday this week, I had two additional Idaho visitors come over. When it rains, it's pours! My other brother, Bob, who lives in Bellevue stopped by with his wife, Jennifer, and Jennifer's mom, Gail, who lives in Boise. Bob and Jennifer have been over before, including Labor Day but Gail hadn't seen our Seattle home yet so I gave her the tour. (If you haven't figured it out yet, both my brothers married women from Boise which is simply a coincidence. Just like all my sisters married men with last names starting with the letter B, including me - Bratney, Bissell, Buck, and Buchanan. I love the coincidences of life...) As soon as Bob, Jennifer and Gail left, I rushed down to the water taxi to pick up a dietitian friend, Michelle, from Idaho. She was in town for a training with a free day on Monday and was staying with her cousin in Pioneer Square, which happens to be very close to the water taxi. She was actually a dietetic intern of mine in 2011 so I was eager to hear about her life as a dietitian now. We had so much to get caught up on. So Michelle, Lauren and I went down to lunch at Cactus where I introduced her to the best jalapeño maragitas around and she was thrilled, not to mention the gorgeous scenery at Alki Beach. Lauren went back to work and Michelle and I headed up to Bakery Nouveau so she could take back some of their signature twice baked croissants to her cousin. As Michelle studied all that Bakery Nouveau had to offer, slightly overwhelmed and dazed, I heard her remark, "...maybe we should get dessert while we're here...". Dessert? Yes, but there are so many great dessert places, we must spread the wealth. So, I asked her if she'd ever been to a chocolate cafe. No? I knew just the place. We ended up at another one of my favorite places by Greenlake called Chocolati.
This was a perfect spot because we could walk over to Greenlake, enjoy the beautiful day and sip our most delicious, handmade Chocolati Chills.
We were able to hit three of my favorite Seattle food places in a just a few precious hours with my fellow dietitian-food-lover and Michelle was completely fulfilled. My mission was accomplished. Now, with my chocolate chip cookies innocently sitting in the cookie jar on the kitchen counter, another little urge for something sweet is getting fulfilled for my current Idaho visitors. It's the least a hostess can do.
Makes 4 dozen cookies
2-1/4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1 egg + 1 yolk, room temperature
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1. Whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
2. In a mixer bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended.
3. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy.
4. Mix in the sifted ingredients in three batches until just blended. Fold in the chips by hand.
5. Roll 2 tablespoons of dough into a ball that is slightly taller than wide and place on a plate or tray.
6. Cover tightly and chill for at least 2 hours, but overnight for best results
7. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. Place cookie dough onto the prepared cookie sheets, about 2 inches apart.
8. Bake for 8 minutes or until edges are barely golden.
9. Cool on baking sheets for 10 minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
It's so nice that you had a sunny day in Seattle!!
ReplyDeleteYes, and we made the most of it, too. I can actually count on one hand the number of rainy days since we've been here since the end of June. Not bad!
ReplyDeleteIt was an awesome day! Thanks again!!!
ReplyDeleteI was my pleasure!
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