My Unique Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe & Cookie Photos by Bart Smith

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Why I Make The "World's Best" Chocolate Chip Cookie!

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by Bart Smith

PART 1

MY UNIQUE CCC RECIPE

UNLIKE NO OTHER

MY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE (CCC) RECIPE
IS UNIQUELY DIFFERENT & PRODUCES AN
ENTIRELY DIFFERENT LOOKING & TASTING CCC

MY CCC RECIPE is 60% DIFFERENT FROM 450+ other chocolate chip cookies recipes I’ve seen on the web, on social media and on the back of the Nestle® Toll House®, Ghirardelli® and Guittard® bags of (any flavor) of chocolate chips. Wanna shoot for 1,000 different CCC recipes? Don’t bother. Every one of those 550 (other) recipes would be nothing more than a close knock off of the CCC recipes advertised for free on the back of today’s top selling bags of chocolate chips sold in your local grocery store.
NOW, WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT THAT MY CCC RECIPE BE SO DIFFERENT? When every baker on the planet essentially references the Nestle® Toll House® (and other sources) CCC recipe, and then all they do is tweak that original recipe by 15-25% and then CLAIM they have THE BEST CCC recipe, I have to LAUGH. You’ll hear them saying things like, “I’ve been perfecting my recipe for the past 3 years …,” or “I’ve been baking for 10 years and my CCC recipe is THE BEST!” or my favorite, “My kids say my cookies are the best!” News alert, lady, your husband, your kids, your family and your neighbors don’t get a vote in this race as to what makes the WORLD’S BEST CCC. Nope, only THIRD-PARTY folks and strangers do, and I’ll get to that coming up. Meanwhile, yeah, whatever. I’ve been baking CCCs since 1988, which makes that 35+ years; and since having baked over 250,000 cookies in my lifetime, you’d think I would know a thing or two about what REALLY makes for a great CCC, right? You better believe it. By sight, taste and touch, I can tell when a CCC recipe has it all wrong and when it’s 110% RIGHT, like MINE!

THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYONE ELSE’S CCC RECIPE is that all their cookies STILL TURN OUT looking the SAME as everybody else’s, for example:

1. FLAT as pancakes or just plain CRACKER THIN. Right? I want a cookie, not a cracker.

2. UNDERBAKED causing the middle of the cookie to be or appear overly moist (=UNCOOKED DOUGH, NOT good)

3. OVERBAKED which produce BURNT EDGES and UGLY duckling looking cookies.

4. MORE DOUGH than CHOCOLATE CHIPS ! I want a CCC not a cookie dough MUFFIN / BISCUIT with a few chocolate chips.

5. TOO MUCH CHOCOLATE creating vast pools of melted chocolate inside the cookie which then just result in a cookie that’s really too messy to eat beyond only one or two and the need for a beach towel to dry you off. I could go on. Am I right, though? Would you agree with my assessment so far in regards to ALL the CCC recipes and CCCs you’ve ever seen out there? I’d say that sounds like EVERY COOKIE I’VE EVER SEEN ONLINE and OFFLINE since I started baking cookies as far back as 1988.

MY CCC RECIPE ONLY SHARES 40% of the same RECIPE INSTRUCTIONS as to how I make my chocolate chip cookies. I mean, to make a chocolate chip cookie, you need the same BASIC ingredients, such as, sugar, brown sugar, flour, salt, baking powder, butter, eggs, vanilla, an oven, cookie sheets, etc. THAT’S IT. In fact, here’s the ingredient label which I place on every bag of chocolate chips that goes out. You’ll notice I only use the basic of ingredients. I like to keep it simple and over time, these are the only ingredients I need to whip up the world’s best CCCs:

1. Would you believe it if I told you some of these so called “best chocolate chip cookie recipe” bakers tell you to add ingredients that don’t belong in a chocolate chip cookie recipe, such as: bread flour, cake flour, corn starch, vanilla pudding powder, vegetable shortening, honey, melted butter, superfine sugar, espresso powder, instant coffee powder, chocolate bars instead of chips, vegetable oil, milk, toasted milk powder, dry milk powder, malted chocolate milk powder, almond extract, use organic ingredients instead of regular/conventional ingredients ... I could go on!

2. Now, if you desire any of those ingredients in YOUR chocolate chip cookie, hey, you go for it. But, having made over 250,000 cookies in my lifetime (part-time) and over the past 35+ years, plus having shipped thousands of cookies to people all over the country, and for the sake of FINDING ingredients at most grocery stores, keeping them at your house and baking (my) chocolate chip cookie recipe FASTER than any other recipe on the planet and with the amazing finished product taste and visual appeal as only my cookies can deliver every time → I would NOT, EVER, NEVER and DO NOT use (or recommend) any of those aforesaid extra, odd ingredients in my one-of-a-kind chocolate chip cookie recipe that is simple to follow, fast to make, fast to bake and fast to EAT! What more could you want in a recipe? My chocolate chip cookie recipe is tried and true, tested and vetted, cookie-cutter (no pun) and ready for the world to make chocolate chip cookies just like I do, fast, and with as few ingredients as necessary, with sheer precision for an outcome that’s consistent time and time again!

That means, the remaining 60% is MY PERSONAL ADJUSTMENTS and TWEAKING to the original recipe, MY PERFECTED TWIST to making the traditional CCC.
These OTHER BAKERS who purport to make THE BEST CCC should REPHRASE their statement(s) to say, they make “THE SAME CCC AS EVERYONE ELSE!” Proof? Just look at them. They all look the same → FLAT, UNCOOKED, BURNT EDGES, UGLY DUCKLING LIKE, CHIPS NOT PLACED PROPORTIONATELY throughout or on top of the cookie, … I could go on, but I won’t bother wasting your time or mine.
INSTEAD, just picture yourself standing next to me in the kitchen while I bake up these heavenly chocolate chip morsels of decadence.
SOON, the timer goes off and my cookies are ready to be pulled out of the oven. Yes, you could have one now, but it would be quite hot! So, let’s let them cool for just a few minutes, then, pick the flavor you’d like to try first, … second, … third. Well, that is, you can’t just eat one! I know I can’t … 5-10 cookies is more what I like to dine on right out of the oven!

BY THE WAY ...
I ONLY BAKE 6 FLAVORS OF
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

& NO OTHER TYPE OF COOKIE

MILK
CHOCOLATE CHIP