Dec 09, 2005
These cookies are fantastic... when made right. For other cookie novices out there, here's what I learned!
1) Oxided butter tastes bad. If it's badly yellowed on the outside, don't use it or your dough will taste bad.
2)The best tasting white chocolate chips contain cocoa butter and are really hard to find.
3)Cheap blenders overheat easily and metal silverware spoons bend easily.
4)You don't need to flatten the dough valls to get them to bake evenly -- if you roll the dough into balls or drop as rounded shapes, the cookies come out puffier and flatten less.
5)Undercooked cookies are as bad as overcooked cookies. Wait until you see the tops just starting to brown before taking the sheet out of the oven (9.5 minutes for me!).
6)Air bake, non-stick cookie sheets are worth the money - convenient and no burnt cookie bottoms.
—Julie
