Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe #12 – Tyler Florence
Recipe: Tyler Florence’s Big, Fat Chocolate Chip Cookies
Source: www.foodnetwork.com
Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 (8-ounce) block dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350ยบ. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl and set aside.
3. Place the butter, sugar, and brown sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer; cream together on medium speed until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Beat in the vanilla and eggs. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and continue to mix until a smooth batter forms. Turn off the mixer and fold in the chocolate chunks using the spatula.
4. To form the cookies, scoop about 1/4 cup of cookie dough into your hands and roll it around into a ball; place them about 3-inches apart onto the prepared cookie sheets; you should get about 4 cookies on each pan. Press down the tops of the dough slightly and bake until the cookies are light brown, 12 minutes for chewy cookies, or about 15 minutes for crispy cookies. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Repeat with remaining dough.
Yield: 1 dozen 5-inch cookies
Total Taste-Testers: 22
Average Scores: on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being the highest score
Taste: 3.2
Texture: 3.5
Amount of chocolate chips: 3.8
Quality of chocolate: 3.7
Overall: 3.3
My review: This is a very interesting cookie, and I can’t figure out based on the ingredients, how it got the texture it did. The cookie was very soft and fluffy, but was dry and had an almost a bread-like texture. This cookie was very bland and nothing stood out to me except the dark chocolate, which I am a huge fan of. It says to coarsely chop the chocolate; however, when you chop chocolate, you end up with a bunch of chocolate shavings. Because of the chocolate shavings, it looked like there was more chocolate than dough in the cookie, but it did not taste chocolaty at all. I can’t exactly pinpoint what this cookie tasted like, because there wasn’t much flavor. Overall, I thought this was a horrible cookie, and I think the Taste-Testers agreed with me because this is now the lowest scoring cookie. While it is tied with the Martha Stewart recipe with an overall score of 3.3, the Martha Stewart recipe beat out this recipe in taste. I do not recommend this chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Taste-Tester comments:
* “I would have liked the dough of this cookie to be a bit sweeter. I liked the chocolate, but it’s not my favorite. The consistency of the chocolate was interesting. Each bite seemed to either have tons of chocolate or almost no chocolate at all. I would like it if it was more consistent throughout. Still a tasty cookie overall.”
* “Tasted doughy and while mottled with chips, got no distinctive chocolate taste.”
* “Really soft, but sort of dry.”
* “Weird texture, almost bready, but yummy.”
