Homemade Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies (2006-12-30)
If I liked the taste of butter (or dairy food), I'd have baked a lot because I like to cook and I like to eat. Because of the lack of acquired taste for dairy products, I generally find baked goods repugnant. But chocolate chip cookies are inexplicably appealing to me (scratch head). Those with a chewy center and crispy edge preferably with melting chocolate chips are something I can't say no to.
I came across a low fat recipe for triple chocolate chip cookies on
the Food Network website. The idea of "low fat" isn't what
appeals to me, it is the use of scant amount of butter. Less
butter means less buttery taste, "I'd like that" I was thinking.
Besides, I've got a lot of dark chocolate bars at home, they'd be good
to be made into CCC. So I went to the store to get the rest of
the ingredients and set on baking.
The cookies are easy enough to make. The hardest step for me
is to decide what "creaming butter and sugar" actually means.
Since I don't know much about baking dessert, I'm not entirely sure
when the
process of creaming is completed. I creamed for ages and the
batter remained stiff. "May be the proportion of the small amount
of butter to sugars will never create a "creamy" consistency?" I
deduced in a panic mode. I wasn't gonna give up this early on
cause I did buy a whole bottle of canola oil and whole wheat flour just
for this recipe. So after ten minutes beating the stiff batter, I
decided it wouldn't go any further. The next step I shall
proceed. I beat in the egg and oil which instantly turned the
batter into a CREAMY goo (wipe sweat on forehead!), so I guess
all's well afterall.
The cookies came out so-so. They were chewy in the center
only while still warm but they hardened up once cooled. The
chewiness
is somewhat restored when zapped in the microwave for 15 seconds
just before eating. These cookies are mildly sweet and
crispy. I was hoping they would be plump and chewy like the ones
I remember
so fondly of from a bakery in California.
The search continues for the best chewy CCC recipe.
P.S. If you're interested in making these crispy low fat CCC, you can click on the photo and get the ingredients shown in the subsequent photos.
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