Recipe: The Ultimate Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yes. I made fresh cookies, there's just something so simple and fantastic about cookies. I made 2 dozens, gave some as little gifts and ate some more. It's very simple, got this recipe from the cardboard off the Crisco package. I know... you're thinking OMFG CRISCO!!?? In the US it's a taboo to cook with lard however I grew up with my grandmother and great-aunts using lard to cook rice, meat, basically anything and none of us had any serious health issues. So whatever, I did it with Crisco. You can substitute the Crisco with butter, unsalted REAL butter. Just dont use Margarine. You shouldn't be using margarine to begin with, it's one of the most disgusting things on earth, one ingredient away from being plastic. So embrace butter.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
* 3/4 stick Crisco® Baking Sticks Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening
* OR 3/4 cup Crisco® Butter Flavor All-Vegetable Shortening (OR 3/4 cup of unsalted butter)
* 1 1/4 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
* 2 tablespoons milk
* 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
* 1 large egg
* 1 3/4 cups All Purpose Flour
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 (6 oz.) package semi-sweet chocolate chips (1 cup)
* 1/2 cup of Toffee bits (you can get it in the bakery section or you can crush Heath bars, works the same)
PREPARATION DIRECTIONS:
1. HEAT oven to 375ºF.
2. COMBINE shortening, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Beat at medium speed of electric mixer until well blended. Beat in egg. Combine flour, salt and baking soda. Mix into shortening mixture until just blended. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
3. DROP by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls 3 inches apart onto ungreased baking sheet. (I greased it with butter, sorry recipe!)
4. BAKE 8 to 10 minutes for chewy cookies, or 11 to 13 minutes for crisp cookies. Cool 2 minutes on baking sheet on a cooling rack. Remove cookies to rack to cool completely.
And it was yummy! I made little goody bags and gave some to my neighbor and to my friend and her husband with who we went for drinks last night. He especially loved it. ;)
Now I'm off to make us some hearty tomato basil soup before we head out to the pumpkin patch!! (OMFGPUMPKINPATCHNERDATTACK!)