Cooking in Cashmere: C is for cooookie

It's snowing- it is dumping snow- I'm stuck inside yet again except this time it's 3 pm- welp I can't make lunch- it's too early to make dinner… maybe just a snack… just… one…cookie. Yea i'm a fitness trainer, yea I'm going to school to be a dietitian- but like I said from the get-go, I'm not one of those 'girls who posts photos of food they dont eat' - hate that ish. I EAT. And I love cookies. cookies. Cookies. cookies. For years I could not make chocolate chip cookies from scratch. Why? Who knows. They fell flat, they were dry, whyyy. Finally, one day, I crafted a recipe that actually…worked. EUREKA! This has been simultaneously the best and the worst thing that has ever happened to me. Best because I can whip up chocolate chip cookies that are amazing in literally 5 minutes. The worst well… I don't have to spell it out for you.

Chocolate Chip Cookies
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter melted and cooled slightly
1/2 cup cane sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
1 whole egg plus 1 egg yolk
2 tsp fine vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Step 1: In a large bowl, combine your cane and light brown sugar, with a hand mixer add in your melted and cooled butter until combined. Add in your egg and egg yolk and beat together, then add your vanilla extract.

Step 2: In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt and whisk to combine. Add the dry ingredients into the wet, and mix until just the little bits of flour are gone and the ingredients are evenly incorporated. Stir in your chocolate chips.

Step 3: PUT IN THE FRIDGE. I'm sorry! But if you shove it in the oven those cookies are going to be flat buttery messes- let the fats solidify through some cooling and you'll guarantee the perfect cookie. After about 2 hours (SORRY!) Preheat your oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Check out your oven- is it crappy- most likely- know your hot spots and if your oven scorches food easily keep an eye on the cookies and move them around (from one rack to the other etc). Place several spoonfuls of dough on a parchment lined baking sheet. Pop in oven- about 10 minutes.