last week i was scouring david lebovitz blog and saw a video where he made chocolate chip cookies and fed them to appreciative parisians. it entertained me to see inquisitive first glances given by the pedestrians which quickly morphed into delight as they tasted this strange american delicacy. cookies like these really aren't in vogue anywhere else but america. even so no creature can resist such a wholesome goody.
it had been too long since i had tasted a chocolate chip cookie and was beginning to take an alien view of the treat myself. so, i decided to whip up a batch. i used david's recipe, which was featured on the blog 101 cookbooks, as well as a few other sites. i could spend the time writing down the recipe here, but i really did little to modify it except for substituting the walnuts/pecans with hazelnuts.
my only tips would be to make sure you use all-purpose flour as the recipe states, as well as taking care not to over cream the butter and sugar. i used pastry flour the first time attempting this recipe and i think the lower gluten in the flour caused the cookies to run a bit much. creaming the butter too long can also have this effect. lastly, i suggest chopping your nuts fairly uniform and not too big to achieve even distribution in the cookies. other then that i think the recipe is pretty spot on. the only other thing i would suggest is spinning the tray midway through baking, as most home oven heat unevenly, which i'm sure a lot of you already know.
now go and be six, but maybe leave out licking the mixing spoon unless you know the eggs you used are nice and fresh.
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