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Jessica Coulter

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Pat Tippett

MIL is a chef and food stylist in Portland, OR. For many years she owned Flaming Carrot Catering, pdx's favorite eco-conscience catering company. She takes her passion for art, travel and cuisine back to the kitchen and studio and delicious things happen.

She's currently focusing her talents on food styling and on-site chef services for film scenes and group gatherings (hey tweens - she did the food styling on the twilight movie!). Oh, and writes MIL Missions for this little blog.

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3000 miles 'til dinner.

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Two busy DILs living on two different coasts getting
long-distance cooking lessons from their MIL.

recipe 17
notes MIL MISSION #48: INCREDIBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Prep time:   15 minutes

Baking time:   12 minutes for soft, chewy cookies

Baking temp: 325 degrees, middle rack, heavy sheet pan (cookie sheet), lightly oiled or lined with parchment

Servings: 3-4 dozen, depending on size

♥PANTRY, FRIDGE, MARKET♥♥

1/2 C. unsalted butter, room temp.

1 C. (lightly packed) light or dark brown sugar

3/4 C. granulated sugar

2 large eggs

1 t. pure vanilla extract

2 C. unbleached white flour

1 t. baking soda

1/2 t. fine sea salt

1 12-oz. package best quality semi-sweet chocolate chips (2 to 2-1/2 C.)

2 C. walnut pieces

♥PREP - food processor, mixer or by hand with a wooden spoon

*Cream butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until blended.

*Mix in eggs and vanilla.

NOTE: if using a mixer, set on lowest speed so mix doesn’t get “fluffy”, giving the cookies have a “cake like” consistency

*Add flour, soda and salt to butter/sugar mix, blending all.

NOTE: if using a food processor,scrape butter/sugar mix into a bowl and stir in dry ingredients

*Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts, blending thoroughly.

*Chill - these cookies bake perfectly if the dough is chilled. Either chill the entire bowl of dough or scoop spoonfuls onto sheet pan and chill for 5-10 minutes before baking. For quicker chilling, place in freezer.

♥BAKE - 325 degrees for approx. 12 minutes (soft, chewy cookies) or longer for crisp cookies (see Helpful Hints below)

♥♥ WAYS TO “just wing it” ♥♥               consider or substitute

*better quality chocolate (less or no wax) makes better tasting cookies. Guittard Classic chips are readily available on most retail grocer shelves and Trader Joes chocolate chips are very good, rumored to be a top quality German-brand chocolate

*consider any combination of quality chips: butterscotch, milk or white chocolate

*consider any combination of nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, macadamias

*consider 1/2 white flour, 1/2 whole wheat flour

♥ Helpful Hints♥

*oven temps. vary greatly so watch cookies closely; they make bake in less or more time than the recipe suggests

*dough freezes well so make a double batch and bake as need!

MIL Post

#cookies bars