Recipes Discovered

Double Tree Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

I have a confession. I cannot make chocolate chip cookies. I have tried countless recipes and multiple techniques, but I have gotten maybe three good cookies out of hundreds. It had gotten to the point where I just refused to make them anymore because I was tired of throwing them out (or forcing Seth to eat them). All of this changed however after a recent trip to a Doubletree. Doubletree Hotel gives a chocolate chip cookie to each guest upon check-in, and they just happen to be one of the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever had. As I was sitting at the hotel, enjoying my cookie, it occurred to me that the recipe had to be online somewhere, and thanks to the free Internet, I soon found that recipe. It’s a fairly basic chocolate chip cookie recipe, which a few odd additions (lemon juice), but the key to the recipe is refrigerating the dough. I found it was easier to scoop the dough onto cookie pans with an ice cream scooper and then refrigerator the whole pan for 8 hours. After refrigerating, I baked the cookies for 13 1/2 minutes, which seemed to be the magic time for my oven. And it seriously was magic, because all thirteen cookies (I made half a batch) turned out absolutely perfect. The cookies even passed the “next day test”, as Seth likes to call it. In fact, Seth called me the next day and asked me if I could make another batch. He claimed he wanted to take them to work, but I think he just wanted to see if I could duplicate my success, which I did. I made a whole batch today and each cookie turned out as great as the first one. I am so excited that I can now make a chocolate chip cookie.