I Never Thought This Day Would Come

I finally found the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. What makes these even more special is that I added my own spin to it. I looked up a recipe for soft chocolate chips cookies and picked one I thought looked good. I think the trick is to whip the butter and sugar in the beginning. We often have to do this for cakes, but I am not sure if I have done it for cookies... so that and the fact each cookies was 3 tablespoons of dough had me sold. 

I was also really hungry when I was making these so I wanted a cookie that had more bite to it. To achieve this, at the end I added oatmeal, pistachios and pecans. I also used large chocolate chunks rather than chocolate chips.

Of course, I under cooked them in the oven by 1-2 minutes, then let them cool for 10 minutes. I think this is the secret to perfectly cooked desserts. Everything continues to bake once it is out of the oven so I like to take things out when I think they are too underdone and then pray they firm up a bit after letting them cool. Thankfully, they do so I'll keep using this trick for awhile.

In my unbiased, actually overly critical opinion, I think these cookies were the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever had. They were bakery level cookies! I would definitely bring these over to someone's house for a house warming gift. You will shock your friends with how good these are.

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