For this month’s theme things are going to progress a little differently.
The first cookie I ever made on my own was the chocolate chip cookie. I distinctly remember my friend Summer and I baking these in the summer after 8th-grade graduation.
That was also the summer she tried to get me to smoke pot, which I declined vehemently and it broke up our friendship. That is a story for another day.
But the Toll House chocolate chip cookie is engrained into my memory banks. I use the cookie without chocolate chips as a base cookie for many of the Cookie Thursday is a Thing bakes.
2 sticks butter, 2/4 c each brown sugar and white sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, 2 eggs, 2 1/4 c flour, 1 tsp baking soda, 1 tsp salt. Bake at 350 degrees until done.
Easy, right?
The theme for the month is Chocolate Chip cookie. I’ve done this theme before with different additives such as jalapeno, or sourdough, or sour cream, or peanut butter chips.
But what about the basic cookie recipe. How can I mess with that?
I have plans.
This first week will be the original cookie recipe. And I will change an ingredient in the recipe each subsequent week. Except for the 4th week, I will be out of reach of my oven on vacation.
This week will build the rest of the month. And the basic cookie will be the make.
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 