(Not just any) Chocolate Chip Cookies

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If you really think about it I bet you perform way more selfless acts than you realize.  Picking up a trinket for a friend because you know she’d like it.  Asking your doorman if he’d like a cup of coffee when you go out.   Helping a neighbor by putting yourself on their child’s emergency call list.  Giving a co-worker the benefit of your experience cooking, driving or best apps for their iPhone.  Opening the door for a parent with a small child.  These are all little things but they add up to being a good friend and a kind person.

Sometimes, though, you do things for friends because they post messages like this on your Facebook homepage:

 If you don’t give up that damn cookie recipe I’m coming to your house laying down on your front porch and throwing a massive temper tantrum with whining, kicking abandon…

Or maybe they reply with this:

 I can get into her personal belongings – let’s take embarrassing photos of ourselves wearing her things in her rooms & post them all over the internet until she gives up the ghost!

 And then you give in, well, because you love them but you are also just the teeniest bit convinced that they will actually do what they are threatening to do.

So it is in that spirit of sharing and caring (and fear) that I bring you this chocolate chip recipe.   Now, I didn’t come across this easily and it is not just Nestle Toll House with a masque and some frilly bloomers.  No, this is a constructed-from-stratch-years-in-the-making-foolproof-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe.  

Here is why it is special:  Until I put this recipe together I could not make cookies.  None.  No recipe.  No instructions.  No packet worked for me.  I could not do it.  This probably isn’t a unique issue but for someone for whom the kitchen is a refuge, someone who regularly churns out Beef Wellington, cakes, quiches, gumbo and homemade pasta…. this was a BFD.  How could I not make something as simple as cookies?   But it was true and remained so until about a year ago.   I had tried and failed so many times that I just accepted that as part of my being, as much as I have blonde hair (cough) and am 5’7 (in heels), I was never going to be able to bake cookies.

But one day I decided I’d had enough.  There had to be a reason I kept screwing up cookies.  There must be a scientific explanation for what was going wrong.  I started the research.  Everywhere.  Online.  Asking my friends who did not share this deficiency.  Reading magazines. Trying different recipes.  Then, one glorious day, I came across a box of $20 Vosges Chocolate Chip Cookie mix at Whole Foods in Denver and guess what?  The cookies actually worked!  I had done it!  It didn’t matter that it was from a mix.  It had worked for me!  The curse was broken!  

I set out to recreate the Vosges recipe and combine it with all of the research I had done.  I put it all together to create my very own, never fail, heart stoppingly good chocolate chip cookie recipe.  And that is how you ended up with the world’s best chocolate chip cookie recipe in front of you today.  A history of cooking.  A tireless quest to create a foolproof cookies recipe.  A few threats from friends.  That’s all it took.  Read the notes.  They are important.  

xoxo

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