Freshly Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies

How I love them! There's nothing quite like biting into a warm cookie and having the chocolate chips melt. Amazing. At my house we use the Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe that comes in on the back of the chocolate chip bag. It's classic and always comes out right (unless you burn the cookies!). However, under different conditions they will come out differently.

If you follow the recipe and use butter, it will come out better than if you substitute. For baking, there is no substitute for butter. Yes, at my house we sometimes use margarine because we keep kosher and there' the whole not mixing meat and milk thing... but that's only out of necessity. If you can use butter, you should. I've noticed that different kinds of butter make a slightly different cookie. I don't know why, but some brands just make them come out fluffier and softer, rather than crisp. It's rather strange.

You can make variations of this cookie very easily- substitute dark or milk chocolate chips, thrown in a different kind of nut or no nuts at all- it's up to you. We always use the semi-sweet chips and walnuts. I personally think they'd be really good with hazelnuts, but others in my family don't agree. Either way, these cookies are basically unbeatable.

If you don't belive me, try them yourself. They're easy and delicious. Right now I'm munching on one and listening to DC101. I don't think it could get any better than this.