This week I decided to go away from more dinner style recipes to a more dessert style by baking chocolate chip cookies. Fist thing's first, preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Then take 8 tablespoons of butter and put it in the microwave for 40 seconds. Then use an electric beater to beat 1/4 cup of brown sugar and 1/4 cup of white sugar with the melted butter. Add in 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract and 1 egg and beat for 10 to 15 seconds. Then add in about 1 1/2 cup of all purpose flour, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, and 1/4 teaspoon of salt and mix until crumbles form. Use your hands to press the crumbles together to form one large ball of dough. Add in the chocolate chips and fold them into the dough using your hands. Take off pieces and roll them into little balls, about 12 balls, and place them on a tray lined with parchment paper. Place the cookies under the stove and cook for 9 to 11 minutes so that the cookies are just barely golden and puffy. Take them out from under the stove once it's done baking and let them sit for 30 minutes.
The most difficult part when making these cookies was getting the dough just right, where it wasn't all wet and sticky, so I had to keep adding more and more flour to the batter. In doing so, I was preventing the cookies from becoming flat.
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