Cookie-Dough Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cookie Dough Chocolate Chip cookies & musings about androgynous dressing

I love cookies! For a time I kept on baking them back in Bangkok but never really ate them, giving them away to friends because of fear of being fat. Today I still wont eat a full cookie, but I can eat atleast 1/2 without the guilt - it's a wonder how growing old helps you forget about meaningless numbers like height, weight, age, salary. It's a wonder as well how a partner in life who genuinely appreciates you for more than just your looks can help normalize abnormal habits and beahviours. Andy often teases me that 1/2 of the reason of why he married me was because I was hot - ofcourse it is a joke as I truly do not think I am...the other 1/2 is because I am crazy, artsy-fartsy and a good cook. He also says I do not have a mean bone in my body...maybe that is why my cooking is so sweet!

In life - really you can have your cookie, and eat it too!

The secret to making a really good cookie are 3 things!

1 under cook it, 6mins only instead of the usual 8min;

2 Make BIG balls 1/inch in diameter, they make the cookies fat and moist inside; and

3 Once you make the dough, refrigrate, I dont know why but it makes it chewier

I made these tonight during our barbecue for a friend leaving for NZ - no one wanted to bring home the cookies because they were too yummy!!!!

Ingredients

3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
¾ cup granulated sugar
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
2¾ cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
12 oz. bag semisweet chocolate chips

* combine sugars, vanulla, eggs and softened butter (I melt this in a pan)

* combine APF (I use whole wheat), salt, baking soda and salt

* FOLD in the wet inside the dry

* Refrigirate for 30 mins!!!

I am currently in love with all the fashion I am seeing in http://www.thesartorialist.blogspot.com/ aaaahh, love, love , love. All the androgynous dressing and male shoes make me love my Oxford Steve Maddens and Boyfriend Jeans even more.