Shaba

26. Married. Dog owner. Southern Virginia dwelling.
I like pretty things, baked goods, and books.
You can call me Madame Empress of the Universe.

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Jun 13
To catch you up, I spent the last year sending my college freshman brother approximately 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies a month-two different recipes. He was then instructed to share the cookies among his classmates at IUP Honors College, calculate the votes, and report the findings to me. The results were recorded via brackets. It’s like March Madness only way cooler.  This was all due to my ridiculous quest to locate THE BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe. This is the conclusion to a year’s worth of buttery research. There are two reasons this post is about a month later than I anticipated. 1) I’m lazy. 2) Ok, actually that’s the only reason. Can I just say one thing?I knew it.  The Crisco recipe has been my go-to ever since I learned it’s the same one used by my best friend & her mother as well as the one used by my super southern cookin’ neighbor. I had a feeling it might walk away with the title. And let’s be serious, 20 something college aged kids can’t be wrong. Embrace the butter flavored Crisco and the TABLESPOON of vanilla. Embrace it and leave your health concerns in a pile at the door, it’s a cookie for crying out loud. It’s not supposed to be healthy. In fact every time I see a recipe for a “healthy” version of some well known junk food I shake my head. I don’t want my cookie to have flaxseed in it, and I don’t believe that doctored chickpeas will taste like cookie dough. If you can’t get over the fact that there is chemically butter substitute in this recipe make the CI Chewy, it’s pretty good too, good enough for runner up status.  Just know if you want to make The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie, you’re going to need to get cozy with some Crisco. It’s been proven. By science. And a bunch of hungry college coeds. 

To catch you up, I spent the last year sending my college freshman brother approximately 4 dozen chocolate chip cookies a month-two different recipes. He was then instructed to share the cookies among his classmates at IUP Honors College, calculate the votes, and report the findings to me. The results were recorded via brackets. It’s like March Madness only way cooler.  This was all due to my ridiculous quest to locate THE BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe. This is the conclusion to a year’s worth of buttery research.

There are two reasons this post is about a month later than I anticipated.

1) I’m lazy.

2) Ok, actually that’s the only reason.

Can I just say one thing?
I knew it. 


The Crisco recipe has been my go-to ever since I learned it’s the same one used by my best friend & her mother as well as the one used by my super southern cookin’ neighbor. I had a feeling it might walk away with the title. And let’s be serious, 20 something college aged kids can’t be wrong.

Embrace the butter flavored Crisco and the TABLESPOON of vanilla. Embrace it and leave your health concerns in a pile at the door, it’s a cookie for crying out loud. It’s not supposed to be healthy. In fact every time I see a recipe for a “healthy” version of some well known junk food I shake my head. I don’t want my cookie to have flaxseed in it, and I don’t believe that doctored chickpeas will taste like cookie dough.

If you can’t get over the fact that there is chemically butter substitute in this recipe make the CI Chewy, it’s pretty good too, good enough for runner up status. 

Just know if you want to make The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie, you’re going to need to get cozy with some Crisco. It’s been proven. By science. And a bunch of hungry college coeds. 
Posted at 9:59 AM 9 notes Tagged: chocolate chip cookie projectresultsI found THE RECIPE you guysyou're welcome

Sep 27

Chocolate Chip Cookie Project Month 1 Results:

The Crisco cookie won by a landslide, garnering the endorsement of approximately 15 more college students than the New York Times cookie.

Take that, NYT.

To tell you the truth, I’m not surprised.

Right of the oven I think the NYT cookie is slightly better. Zach, taste tester of all oven fresh cookies, also agrees. They also look more appealing than the Crisco cookie, tending to keep their shape better during baking and resulting in a lighter colored cookie dough. However, I think this might be the result of the overnight refrigeration. I have it noted to try the same approach with the Crisco cookie the next time I make them, but for this project I’m baking all cookies as the recipe reads. Zach also mentioned that while he liked the NYT cookie slightly more, the difference was not enough to warrant the extra steps in preparation.

Though the NYT might be slightly better out of the oven, once the cookies have cooled the Crisco cookie wins hands down. The Crisco cookie stays softer longer and is just as good on day one as it is on day 7. The NYT cookie got hard and crumbly on me, almost immediately, even when kept in the same conditions as the Crisco cookie. I actually threw out the remainder of the batch I had left-they were that sub-par.

Round one, clear winner: Crisco cookie.

Posted at 12:05 PM 17 notes Tagged: chocolate chip cookie projectmonth oneresults