Chips Ahoy has gone into new recipe hell.

https://www.pepperidgefarm.com/product/nantucket-crispy-double-chocolate-chunk-cookies/
Addictive as hell.

And there is, make your own.
That fresh baked smell is heaven on earth.

 

I am a ginger snap guy myself. Stauffer's ginger snaps

 

I like chewy (not crisp) cookies, and have not found any already-baked chocolate-chip cookies in a store that I like (they all seem to have a slightly off flavor, perhaps from the preservatives added).
Besides making them from scratch, I found that bake-at-home refrigerated cookie-dough cookies, the best.
To make them even chewier, I bake them close together in a small baking pan, so they basically form thicker brownie-type square cookie-bars.

 

I would be in the Chips Ahoy group because I prefer crunchy over chewy in cookies.

Besides making them from scratch, I found that bake-at-home refrigerated cookie-dough cookies, the best.
To make them even chewier, I bake them close together in a small baking pan, so they basically form thicker brownie-type square cookie-bars.

Actually I do similar but I make them crunchy. I start the bake and about 1/2 way through I remove from oven and place a sheet of wax paper or parchment paper over the cookies and use a saucer to flatten them. Then let them finish baking. This works well with my raisin oatmeal cookies. Chocolate chip I need to make sure the chips aren't too melted before I squish them down.

I really like the Pepperidge Farm cookies for right out of the package cookies also. Good stuff.

Ron

 

I wonder what I could bake given my engineering knowledge. What would it be called?

 

I wonder what I could bake given my engineering knowledge. What would it be called?

"Good, not Perfect"

https://www.lajollalight.com/sdljl-how-an-engineer-makes-cookies-2014jan07-story.html

Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, Olof was able to get his sisters to dig through their old files and find the original recipes for the five types of cookies. What the recipes didn’t say, however, was how many cookies each recipe made. Not a problem, said Olof, who insisted it required a simple application of undergraduate quantitative analysis.

Some hours later, Olof appeared with FIVE PAGES of spreadsheets, titled “2013 Christmas Cookie Plan,” including projected output per recipe, number of cookies of each of the five recipes per recipient, ingredients by recipe, and a fourth one understood only by Olof. The final spreadsheet tallied up the sum total of ingredients for all five recipes, which generated a master shopping list. When I saw that we needed 17.5 cups of flour and 13 sticks of butter, I knew this wasn’t going to be a morning’s work.

“Olof,” I said. “This is amazing.”

Olof looked genuinely puzzled. “How else do people make cookies?” he said.

 

Anyone know why they are known as Maryland cookies over here?

 

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It's named for the US state,"Marilyn-d" ?

Nice selection. https://www.burtonsbiscuits.com/our-brands/maryland-cookies/

 

It's named for the US state,"Marilyn-d" ?

Is Maryland more famous than any of the other states for chocolate chip cookies?

 

Is Maryland more famous than any of the other states for chocolate chip cookies?

Not to my knowledge. I been told that chocolate-chip cookies are a exception to the “biscuit" in the UK, so it's likely just a name branding thing.

 

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I've lived in Maryland most of my life and I have to admit, I've never heard of them. Leaves a lot of questions: Were they named Maryland because the creators had been here and liked it? Was it because of some historical event, perhaps the siege of Fort McHenry? Inquiring minds want to know!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Cookies

 

BTW, Famous Amos has the best chocolate chip cookies, followed closely by Entenmann's. I do like Famous Amos' Macadamia Nut cookies too.

 

Not to my knowledge. I been told that chocolate-chip cookies are a exception to the “biscuit" in the UK, so it's likely just a name branding thing.

As far as I know, there were no chocolate chip biscuits before chocolate chip cookies arrived, so the name has stuck. Now we have two words - if a distinction between the two has evolved, a cookie is softer in the middle than a biscuit. (So an Oreo is definitely a biscuit)

I've lived in Maryland most of my life and I have to admit, I've never heard of them. Leaves a lot of questions: Were they named Maryland because the creators had been here and liked it? Was it because of some historical event, perhaps the siege of Fort McHenry? Inquiring minds want to know!

My guess is that the (British) company who introduced them here decided to call them after an American state, and chose one that they thought the British might actually have heard of, as Maryland is called after an English queen (wife of Charles I)

 

Sorry, but any commercial chocolate chip cookie is not even close to those made exactly as the recipe on the Nestles bag.

 

Sorry, but any commercial chocolate chip cookie is not even close to those made exactly as the recipe on the Nestles bag.

I think we all agree, whence, the name of the thread.

It's relative, when you're stuck on the plane, this looks and tastes pretty good.

 

Sorry, but any commercial chocolate chip cookie is not even close to those made exactly as the recipe on the Nestles bag.

Could you post the recipe so I can try it out?

 

One of the recipes: https://cookiesfordays.com/nestle-toll-house-cookie-recipe/

 

Could you post the recipe so I can try it out?

 

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Shopping after work tomorrow. The challenge will be finding equivalent chocolate chips.

 

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If there is a heaven, this is the cookie of heaven. I remember my Grandmother making those with fresh farm eggs, and butter with Watkins (she sold the products from the car to people living near the river bottoms in Brazos cotton country) vanilla extract.
https://www.nestle.com/stories/timeless-discovery-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe

It all started back in 1939. Ruth Wakefield, who ran the successful Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, was mixing a batch of cookies when she decided to add broken pieces of Nestlé Semi-Sweet chocolate into the recipe expecting the chocolate to melt. Instead, the semi-sweet bits held their shape and softened to a delicate creamy texture and the chocolate chip cookie was born.

Ruth's 'Toll House Crunch Cookie' recipe was published in a Boston newspaper and her invention of the chocolate chip cookie quickly became the most popular cookie of all-time.

She sold lots of Watkins vanilla extract back in those hills because we lived in a dry county in Texas and the extract was about 70 proof.