C is for Cookie, that's good enough for me

Come on! You know the words!

A few days ago one of my favorite baking blogs, www.cookiemadness.net, posted her top 5 chocolate chip cookie recipes. As you probably know, I'm always looking to improve my chocolate cookies - a tasty, and never ending quest. So far I really like the CI Chocolate chip cookie with the browned butter and mixing technique crossed with a Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe from Citizen Cake that was given to me by a good friend. The CI is good, but uses more butter than I generally like, and the Citizen Cake recipe is awesome, but uses a little more sugar than I generally like. Not that I'm trying to necessarily make my cookies health food, but I do try to keep the sugar/butter ratios from getting unnecessarily elevated.

So when this post came along I decided, "now here's a challenge." Or maybe, "here's a way to procrastinate and eat lots of cookies." Either win, it's a win-win. I like my cookies thick, dense and on the doughy side of things -no thin and crispy for me, thank you - and all but the CI recipe are new to me.

Like wine tasting, I do my best baking tasting when I can taste side by side instead of over a period of a few weeks or months. My goal is to make all of the doughs (except #3, for which I will replace with the NY times re-worked chocolate chip cookie recipe), age them to the specified time in the fridge and then pop them in the freezer. I'm not going to do it all at once, but over a period of weeks and plan to take notes on each recipe. When they are all finished, I'm going to bake up 2 cookies from each recipe and test them. I will try to take non-crappy pics and post the results.