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Chocolate Chip Cookies For Family And Friends
By Julianne Newbold
If you are like many cooks, or aspiring cooks, then you have
probably looked at a recipe in a magazine or book and seen a picture
of a gorgeous plate of perfectly proportioned and golden chocolate
chip cookies that you can almost taste just by looking at the
picture.
Perhaps you saw a perfect display of them in a candy shop window.
If you are like most people, you probably tried your hand at creating
your own perfect batch of cookies only to be frustrated at their
lack of visual perfection.
Staged Images Of Cookies In Magazines
If you have ever experienced that, then you can be comforted
to know you are not alone, not by a long shot. The fact is that
those are staged pictures and there were probably only a dozen
cookies chosen for the picture out of hundreds that were made
for the photo shoot. Nobody in their home kitchen can compete
with that, in addition to the skills and talents of well paid
food stylists whose job it is to make everything look delectable.
However, it is important to keep in mind that it does not matter
as much about how cookies look, especially when you are comparing
them to professional photographs, but how good those chocolate
chip cookies taste to the recipient, or to the cook herself. Add
great taste to a loving heart and kind hands that prepared them
and the scintillating aroma of them baking in the kitchen will
be what is remembered long after they have been gobbled up.
Baking Your Own Chocolate Chip Cookies
The same is most likely true of anyone you share those cookies
with. If you baked them with love and shared them with friends,
neighbors, co-workers or family members, then the cookies filled
with dark chocolate chips, or white chocolate chips for that matter,
will no doubt be a hit, of course barring any major wrong turns
when following the recipe.
Are you hoping to have every batch of cookies made with chocolate
chips come turn out to be wonderfully soft and chewy? If so, then
you are like most people and the good news is that making the
perfect chocolate chip cookie really is fairly simple and not
that hard, especially if you let go of the expectation that each
one will look like it belongs on a magazine cover or tucked into
gourmet gift baskets. The trick is simply to have a good recipe
in hand and to follow it as closely as possible.
Getting Wrong Advice And Overbaking Cookies
One problem with some recipes for cookies made with chocolate
chips is that they instruct the baker to drop a spoonful of batter
onto the cookie sheet and then put them into the oven until they
appear to be a nice golden brown.
Unfortunately, that advice is all wrong and by the time you see
the top of the cookies turning brown the bottoms have already
gotten overcooked and are dark brown or even burned. From that
point of being over-baked, when you let them cool they will end
up getting hard and becoming more like jaw breakers than the handmade
chocolates treat you intended for them to be.
There is a simple remedy to this problem, and that is to simply
remove the cookies about two minutes earlier than what most common
recipes for chocolate chip cookies suggests.
It could be that you’ll need to run some of your own tests to
figure out the exact balance of oven time and the size of the
cookie, but if you experiment, write down your results and exercise
patience, then there is no doubt you will be whipping up batch
after batch of delicious cookies that people will love.
About The Author:
Julianne Newbold is a popular author on cooking articles including
Chocolate
Fudge, Chocolate
Brownies.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Did You Know This About Chocolate?
What is chocolate made from?
Chocolate is actually made from a tree called
the cacao tree. This tree produces a pod that is very similar
to a gourd. After the cacao pods ripen then workers enter the
fields and hand pick the pods. Cacao farmers are unable to use
mechanized machinery as many other farmers do because it will
damage the trees.
You can only find these trees in tropical
places due to their sensitivity to the cold. Once the harvesting
is complete the cacao pods are cut open and the seeds inside are
harvested. If you were to smell this part of the process, you
would not find a hint of that chocolate smell everyone knows and
loves. It actually smells more like a mango!
The seeds are then placed into ventilated
boxes where they will ferment and dry out. From that stage the
beans are transported to a facility that will remove the shells
of the seeds leaving something called nibs. These nibs are essentially
cocoa. When the nibs are ground up and melted you have cocoa butter
and chocolate liquor which are the fundamental elements to any
great chocolate masterpiece.
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