As we are well into our second month of sheltering in place (can it be!), I thought a bit of comfort food would be welcome. Send me your comfort food recipes to share, I'd love to do a post on everyone's mac and cheese favorites! Or favorite cookie recipe!
When my baby girl, Sarah, was a young teen she was obsessed with Madonna (she and her girlfriends knew all the words to Madonna's movies and songs), George Michael, New Kids on the Block, and perfecting her chocolate chip cookie recipe! And she did it! Now a busy single mom of 4 amazing and beautiful boys, she will often "cheat" with Sweet Martha's frozen cookie dough (a Minnesota State Fair favorite). The boys do not complain!
Here it is as written in her family recipe binder!
A couple of notes about baking cookies. I always find the second batch of cookies cooks faster than the first. This is probably because your cookie dough has gotten a bit warmer and the cookie sheet is definitely warmer with the second batch. So start checking the second batch of cookies after about 6 minutes.
You want the cookies to get just to the stage of not looking "wet" and starting to get a little golden on top. And remember, the cookies will continue to bake on the cookie sheet. You want to let your cookies rest a couple of minutes before removing to a wire rack to finish cooling. Unless you like crispy cookies, you want to take them out of the oven before too browned.
FYI- I usually use a teaspoon and place a heaping teaspoon on the cookie sheet for each cookie, getting 12 on a cookie sheet at a time. No need to oil the pan, and you can certainly use parchment paper for ease of removing the cookie from the cookie sheet and cleaning the pan. Place the cookie sheet on the middle rack of a preheated 325 degree oven.
Be sure and eat at least one (carefully) while hot and the chocolate is melty (I don't think melty is a word, but it is a visual)!