I think that the original recipe had a few flaws that me and my mom fixed. Flaw #1: Too sweet! We reduced sugar by half. Flaw #2: Not enough cocoa powder. The cookie tastes alot better with more cocoa or it just seems like the standard chocolate chip cookies. Flaw #3: (This one isn't a flaw, just an improvement...) Divide the vanilla by half and add the other halves worth of almond extract. The slight cherry flavor REALLY compliments the extra cocoa. Another is replace the standard chocolate chip with white chocolate. The color is fabulous, and so is the taste.

Reviewed On: Dec. 12, 2009

You know... I thought the cookie dough was a bit sweet. I suspected that the fully baked cookies would be sweet as well. Actually I believe that the fully baked cookies were a bit bland. I couldn't get them done perfectly, they were either undercooked or overcooked. Although I did alter the recipe a bit... instead of chocolate chips i used butterscotch, white chocolate, and semi-sweet & white chocolate Swirl(R) chips. p.s. we had a 5.1 oz. package of vanilla instant pudding and it was hard to measure out.

Reviewed On: Mar. 1, 2009