CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

What I don't like about cooking is following a recipe. I have a very short attention span and I find them to be intimidating. But I have this amazing Sunbeam mixer from the 1950's that is black and chrome and purrs just like a car. I am totally obsessed with it and it has been telling me that I need to start baking so I can use it ALL OF THE TIME. So, I have this amazing cookbook that was given to me as a gift: The Barefoot Contessa. I am in love with this book and the woman behind it. Ina Garten is her name and she lives in East Hampton and loves to pack gorgeous shrimp salads when she goes canoeing. How nice. I want to be her.

She has a recipe for chocolate chunk cookies. I decided to attempt this the other night as my very first baking adventure. Her recipe made 40 cookies, so I cut it in half. Now, the reason why I can post this as MY recipe is because I screwed up when I split the ingredients in half. I accidentally forgot to cut in half the baking soda and vanilla.

Because of this, they were not "chunky". They were very thin. This was a bonus because I actually prefer thin cookies over chunky. They were super tasty- and that, my friends, is the beauty of NOT PAYING ATTENTION.

Ingredients...

1/3 Lb of Butter
2 Cups of Flour

1 Cup of Granulated Sugar

2 Tablespoon of Vanilla

1 Teaspoon of Baking Soda

1 Egg

1/2 Cup of Ghiaradeli Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

I mixed the butter and sugar in my Sunbeam mixer (the best thing ever) until it was creamy. Then I slowly added the vanilla baking soda, salt, and egg. Once it was completely mixed, with a wooden spatula, I folded in the chocolate chips.

This is yet what I need to still figure out. So, thinking that my cookies were going to be chunky I made little balls and put them on a cookie sheet, like you normally do when you make cookies. When they were cooking in the oven, they pretty much melted down into one huge cookie. So, next time I will save my time and forget about making little balls and maybe just do it brownie-style in a glass dish.

IF THIS DISH WERE AN OUTFIT

Comme Des Garcons