The Quest

My boyfriend strongly believes that Tollhouse cookies are the best chocolate chip cookies. I am on a quest to prove him wrong. I've baked many different chocolate chip cookies before. Some recipes were online and others were from cooking books, but he still believes that Tollhouse cookies are the best. I am going to continually create different chocolate chip recipes until I can find one that is better than this store-bought cookie.

I'm not a baker, and I have never learned what makes a cookie. I've looked at enough cookie recipes to know the basic components of this heavenly cookie. Chocolate chips (obviously), flour, sugar, eggs, butter, and baking soda/powder. I'll be messing around with proportions until I make a Better-than-Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookies.

First Attempt

The First Recipe

1/2 cup soften butter

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed

1 egg yolk

1 egg

1 tablespoon vanilla

1/2 tsp baking soda

2 cups flour

1 1/2 semi-sweet chocolate chips

1. Warm oven at 325 degrees F.
2. Cream the butter. Add sugar and brown sugar. Combine egg yolk, egg, and vanilla. Mix-in baking soda and flour. Mix-in chocolate chips.
3. Drop tablespoons of dough onto lined cookie sheet. Bake for 10 min.

The Review

I baked one batch for 15 min. and two at 10 min. After taking the 15 min. batch out of the oven, they were light. Pale. Additionally, the cookies collapsed in the middle after some cooling. Not at all appetizing-looking. The fresh-out-of-the-oven taste? Tasteless! Even with all that vanilla! Lesson learned- more vanilla doesn't add as much flavor as you would think, despite what some cookbooks said. It probably needs more butter and baking soda. Maybe even less sugar.

The 10 min. batch hasn't been taste-tested yet. Upon looking at them after cooling, they looked more like a "day-after" cookie. The middle wasn't finished baking at all. I doubt the results will be very good...

Tollhouse, you win this round.