Old Fashioned Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

[Saviolo]

More holiday baking! This recipe is based on the old Toll House recipe that used to be on the back of the package of chips. The recipe changed years ago to be easier to measure and scale, but the cookies weren't as nice! This one is adapted from the earlier recipe, and we've just added some toffee chips. If you can find the Skor branded toffee chips, I definitely recommend them, 'cause they're amazing buttery toffee. If you can't, you can just break up any kind of nice hard toffee.

[msongs]

1. also yummy just with the basic dough - no chips or other additive nt

[Saviolo]

2. Yeah, it's a sort of basic sugar cookie.

A really simple blank canvas to add stuff to.

[OregonBlue]

3. The favorite at my house. Yum

[pansypoo53219]

4. meh.

my grandma made better cookies. i make better cookies.i made the best peanut butter cookies using my great GREAT aunt's sugar cookie + crushed peanuts. best sugar cookies. cam add coffee grounds, toasted coconut. hmm, i should try sesame seeds.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. Is there a print version, so I don't have to spend so long watching?

I use a chocolate chip cookie recipe that comes from the 1930s. It's so old, that it tells you to chop up a semi-sweet bar. Makes the very best cookies ever. Here it is:

Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 ¼ cups unbleached white flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup shortening
½ cup brown sugar, packed
1 cup granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 package chocolate chips
1 cup chopped walnuts

Cream together the shortening and sugars. Add the vanilla and eggs, mix well. Add the dry ingredients and again mix well. Last of all add the walnuts and chocolate chips.

Bake on a lightly greased cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes, depending on your oven.

Done right, these are a combination of crispy and chewy when fresh out of the oven that is amazing.

Notes: Always use real vanilla. Always. Use Crisco for the shortening, and not the butter-flavored one. The walnuts are optional, but I like them a lot.

For a variation, you can substitute butterscotch chips and pecans for the chocolate chips and walnuts, and they are likewise excellent.

[Saviolo]

6. The whole recipe and method is in the description.

We wanted to make sure that we always put the whole recipe in the description so that you don't have to go somewhere else for the method and ingredients list. I love watching Chef John at Food Wishes, but he doesn't give all the amounts in the video, and he doesn't give the whole method on his blog, so you have to visit both. I get that it's a method for driving traffic for revenue, but it's a hassle if you're trying to do it off of your phone in the kitchen! XD

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. Well, I don't take kindly to someone who can't give exact measurements

at least in the video. Expecting someone to go back and forth between video and blog is beyond rude and selfish. So I guess I'll go through life not knowing just how he does his.

You can try making my recipe and let me know what you think.

From the look of the cookies in his, I'm guessing he uses butter, which I don't care for in chocolate chip cookies. Personal preference.