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Friday, August 29, 2008

Man-Size Chocolate Chip Cookies


This is a really good chocolate chip cookie recipe I found after a bit of extensive research and several trials in the kitchen. They are pretty fantastic and the final product is a cookie that can easily be shared with 2 to 3 other people (I actually have eaten two in a single sitting, but then, I was also just complaining to Heather that I think I've never been fatter). Apparently this is a knock off recipe of the well-known treats from the Levain Bakery in Manhattan.


8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
3 1/2 cups AP flour
3/4 teaspoon Kosher salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 baking soda
12 ounces (2 cups) good quality chocolate chips of your choosing (mixing semi-sweet with the milk variety produces good results)
1 cup pecans (or walnuts or macadamia nuts)

Cream the cold butter with the sugar and brown sugar. Blend in eggs one at a time. Add flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Now, you can either reserve a perfectly clean countertop to unload the dough and knead in the chocolate chips and nuts, or simply blend with your mixer--it gets pretty heavy there.

Next shape the completed glob of dough into a long symetrical rectangle and proceed by carefully dividing into 12 equal segments with a large knife. Roll each segment into a ball, which will roughly be the size of a cue ball. I can fit about six on my cookie sheet at a time and, if using a conventional oven, will bake only those six as a single batch at 375 for 19 minutes. Finish the second six. Share and enjoy.

5 comments:

Mandi said...

I can give a testament to these cookies. They are very tasty, and very huge. I bet macadamia nuts would be extra good. I will have to try it.

Spano said...

One of the great pleasures in life.... fresh hot cookies (chocolate chip) and a large glass of ice, and I mean ice, cold milk. Ahhhh wonderful.

Wellz said...

Seriously. The ice cold part really is key.

Wellz said...

Um, I didn't mean to kill this blog with a cookie recipe. We can go back to talking about npr, mix tapes, fishing and Tom Selleck.

These cookies are really good though, so don't take this as an apology.

jared said...

I liked the cookies a lot. I noticed the drought too and was going to post something, but my invite expired. Spano, where are you?