Cookie Craving
Posted: July 23, 2010 Filed under: Cookies Leave a commentA few weekends ago, I baked cookies to my heart’s content. Probably to make up for all of the times I’ve wanted to bake cookies during the school year but been too busy for. Thanks to my mom’s extensive collection of cookbooks, I had the privilege of scouring the Martha Stewart Cookie Cookbook, which is arranged based on cookie texture (genius). I’m looking for a really good chocolate cookie recipe, since I have yet to fall in love with chocolate cookies. I ended up baking her Ginger Chocolate, Chocolate Sugar, Sugar, and Chocolate Black Pepper recipes. Of course, I had to also bake my forever favorites- the Jacques-Torress chocolate chip cookies. For the sugar cookies, I used the recipe for vanilla bean cookies included within the recipe for raspberry cream sandwich cookies.
Chocolate Chip. This recipe incorporates a sprinkling of sea salt on top of each cookie prior to baking, and encourages refrigeration of dough for as long as possible. I love the texture- slightly firm on the outside and chewy and more soft towards the middle.
Sugar. The texture of these cookies was different from any sugar cookie I’ve had before. The edges were a little crispy while the middle was incredibly moist and chewy. I really liked them.
Chocolate Sugar. These are definitely not the right chocolate cookie for me, but they didn’t taste bad. I thought they were really beautiful looking!
Chocolate-Black Pepper. I left the pepper out of this recipe for fear that it would detract from the flavor for some of my cookie eaters. These were really delicious cookies anyway! I thought they were beautiful and they taste good straight out of the oven or after they have cooled and become slightly more crispy.
Chocolate Ginger Cookies. Thanks to the particular taste of another cookie eater, I had to leave the chocolate out of this batch of dough (unfortunate). I adapted the recipe a little bit by adding more butter and less flour, and these ended up being some of the tastiest ginger cookies I’ve eaten! I have made these before with chocolate and they are amazing- definitely try the recipe.
Fortunately, all of these recipes are conveniently posted online, so here are the links:
Chocolate-Black Pepper Cookies
Jacques Torres’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chewy Chocolate Ginger Cookies
Start baking! There is something incredibly warming and uplifting about cookies straight out of the oven, and then the next morning all over again for breakfast 🙂 The Martha Stewart website has an amazing collection of her cookie recipes.
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