The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie

Update 7/2015: One of the large cookies I made for our wedding favors!

Ah-ha! The perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe!

This is the recipe on the back of the Nestle Toll House chocolate chip bag. This recipe has never failed me! One batch makes lots of cookies (5+ dozen), it is easy to double or half as well. You can also make the dough ahead of time (a day or two) and refrigerated it until you are ready to use it.

The cookies freeze well too. Put the cooled cookies in a bag or container, put in the freezer. To defrost put the cookies in the fridge or on the counter. 

Enjoy!

Also see the recipe for my Mom's favorite white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies  or Triple Chocolate Chip cookies!

6/2015 UPDATE: I made 21 batches of this recipe (no nuts) as the wedding favors for my wedding. I baked them in May over 2 weekends. I froze them and they were served 6 weeks later. Folks had no idea that they had been frozen and believed I had baked them in the past couple of days!

After making 21 batches of cookies I have some tips:

• Use room temperature butter and eggs. 
• When creaming the butter ensure there are no butter lumps. The butter lumps will melt and cause the cookies to spread and have a lacy edge.
• Let the dough chill overnight. The cold dough will help the cookies keep their shape, prevent spreading, and the cookies will look more consistent.

Once the cookies were baked I let them cool to room temperature for a couple hours, then put them a container in the fridge overnight so they are cold. The next day I put them in the favor bags and then into the freezer. We kept them in the freezer until the afternoon before the wedding. They defrosted for about 24 hours before being served.

Normally I use my smallest cookie scoop which is about 1 tsp. For these big palm sized cookies I stacked two scoops of cookie dough and used my largest one which is about a tablespoon size.

Oh, and we took some of the funny looking cookies and put ice cream in between two of them to make tasty ice cream sandwiches!

 

Voila!

Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies
makes approx 5 dozen cookies

Ingredients:
2 1/4 c all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 sticks butter
3/4 c granulated sugar
3/4 c packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375.
Combine dry ingredients. Beat butter, sugars, vanilla until creamy. Add eggs 1 at a time. Gradually add in dry mix. Stir in chips and nuts. Drop rounded tbs onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake 9-11 minutes. (This varies by oven, mine take approx 8 minutes and I make smaller cookies).

Slutty Brownies

I found a recipe here for Slutty Brownies. (Her pictures actually show the layers... we were too excited to try them to get good pictures)

Honestly, it was the name that made me do a double take and I had to see what these brownies were about. A layer of chocolate chip cookie dough, layer of Oreo, and topped with brownie batter make up this sweet dessert.

I already knew what I was going to do.

I went with the Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookie recipe and the Brooke's Bombshell brownie recipe. And if I could bottle the smell of my kitchen when these were baking... me oh myyy!! It was a beautiful experience.

Nestle Toll House cookies are my favorite, I normally load them up with walnuts and chocolate chips. For this recipe I omitted the nuts.

Brooke's brownie recipe is a fudge-y dense brownie. I use 2 cups of sugar, generally 1 cup brown sugar and 1 cup white sugar. I also omitted the chocolate chips for this recipe.

Oreo's are yummy. When they are baked between a chocolate chip cookie layer and brownie layer they don't get soggy, but they aren't hard cookies anymore...they sort of melt into a layer of their own. Some alternations for the Oreo layer that my friends suggested but I have not tried: crush them up, crush them up and mix them with cream cheese. 

Enjoy!!

Slutty Brownies
Directions
Preheat oven to 350. Line 9x9 pan with foil. Layer uncooked cookie dough. Layer Oreos on top. Pour brownie batter over everything. Bake for 30-35 minutes.

The recipes below are for the full amounts... I halved these for the 9x9 pan.

Original Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies
makes approx 5 dozen cookies

Ingredients:
2 1/4 c all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 stick sbutter
3/4 c granulated sugar
3/4 c packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375.
Combine dry ingredients. Beat butter, sugars, vanilla until creamy. Add eggs 1 at a time. Gradually add in dry mix. Stir in chips and nuts. Drop rounded tbs onto ungreased baking sheets.
Bake 9-11 minutes. (This varies by oven, mine take approx 8 minutes and I make smaller cookies).

Brooke's Best Bombshell Brownies

Ingredients:
1 c butter, melted
3 cups white sugar
1 tbs vanilla extract
4 eggs
1 1/2 c lfour
1 c cocoa powder
1 tsp salt
1 c chocolate chips

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350.
Grease 9x13 baking dish
Combine melted butter, sugar, vanilla
Beat eggs in 1 at a time
Sift flour, cocoa powder and salt together.
Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients.
Stir in chocolate chips.
Spread batter into prepared dish.
Bake in oven approx 35 minutes.