Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe #11 – Paula Deen
Recipe: Paula Deen’s Three Chocolate Cookies
Source: www.pauladeen.com, & www.foodnetwork.com
Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
3 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teasopoon salt
1 (12oz.) package semisweet chocolate morsels
1 cup milk chocolate morsels
3 (1-ounce) squares bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1 cup almond brickle chips (Heath Bar Baking Bits) *omit for classic chocolate chip cookies*
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 375ยบ. Lightly grease baking sheets.
2. With an electric mixer, beat butter and shortening at medium speed until creamy; gradually add sugars, beating until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla, beating well.
3. In a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt; gradually add to butter mixture, beating until blended. Stir in chocolate morsels and almond brickle chips, if using.
4. Drop cookies by 1/4 cupfuls about 3-inches apart onto prepared baking sheets. Bake for 11 to 12 minutes, or until lightly browned. Let cool for 2 minutes on baking sheets. Remove to wire racks to cool.
Yield: 3 dozen
Total Taste-Testers: 23
Average Scores: on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the highest score
Taste: 4.4
Texture: 4.4
Amount of chocolate chips: 4.7
Quality of chocolate: 4.5
Overall: 4.5
My Review: All I can say is Paula Deen knows what she’s doing in the kitchen, because these cookies are amazing! If you have ever watched her show on the Food Network,”Paula’s Home Cooking,” you know her favorite ingredient is butter. These cookies exude butter in aroma and taste, and are very rich and slightly greasy. The texture is perfect with a crisp outer edge and a soft, kind of gooey chewy center. I loved the flavor of these cookies, and was happy to finally try a recipe that called for more than one type of chocolate. With semisweet, milk, and bittersweet chocolate, I thought these cookies would be too chocolaty, but surprisingly, they weren’t. The balance of all the ingredients was perfect. This is now one of my top three favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes! It blows the Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie out of the water. This is a cookie that you would expect to find at a gourmet bakery.
Taste-Tester comments:
* “I love the soft texture of this cookie.”
* “Nice soft to crunch ratio.”
* “I loved this cookie!”
* “Amazing!”
* “Initial aroma is enticing.”
* “Nice buttery smell and taste.”
