Happy National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day.
I prefer eating chocolate chip cookie dough than the cookies themselves, but I can make a batch, enjoy some dough, and share the holiday with others by giving the cookies away. This is a perfect holiday.
I like to make cookies, but I actually make bars. I press the batter into a baking pan and cut them into squares once they are baked. This was a much-needed solution since my drop cookies always looked horrible. My bars both look good and taste good.
I don’t have a special family recipe, I just follow the recipe on the back of the semi-sweet chocolate chips. It is well-tested, and makes tasty dough.*
The largest chocolate chip cookie registered with the Guinness Book of World Records was baked in May 2003. The Immaculate Baking Company in Flat Rock, North Carolina, made a cookie that had an area of 8,120 square feet, weighed 40,000 pounds, and had a diameter of 101 feet. You can see the cookie here. It looks totally unappetizing. I hope they invited a lot of people to eat it.
Have a chocolate chip cookie today, guilt-free. Or give one as a gift to someone sweet.
*I know you shouldn’t eat dough that has raw eggs in it. If this worries you, please don’t do it. So far, it hasn’t killed me, and I don’t eat a lot of the dough, anyway.