Halfway Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies!
I LOVE chocolate chip cookies, but remembering to soften the butter, and sifting the flour and, lets be honest here, lugging out the kitchenaid mixer….that was pre-kids for me. I’ll still go the full mile for special occasions, but this cookie hack has streamlined my life and it’s too good not to share!
First things first, get yourself a bag of Betty Crocker Chocolate Chip Cookie mix (her oatmeal chocolate chip works just as well!). It’s absurdly cheap at Walmart, like $1.98. Make the cookies according to package directions (1 stick softened butter, 1 egg, stir). It’s gonna look weirdly dry at first, but trust me, and keep mixing. Eventually it will look like normal cookie dough. Get out your cookie sheet, add a sheet of parchment paper, and use a small cookie scoop for evenly sized cookies.
HACK #1: only bake for 8-9 minutes
Look, if you bake these until they “look done”, they’re gonna be bricks. You want just a hair past raw- where they’ve spread out and just the very edges are starting to get some color. The middles are going to look uncooked. That’s fine. Trust me! Take those suckers out the second they start to get tan on the edges, which is about 8 minutes maybe 9 in my 350 degree oven.
HACK #2: jazz up the tops of the cookies
So now that you’ve pulled your still-look-a-little-raw cookies out, you need to do the important work. Take Ghirardelli milk chocolate chips and shove them into the still-hot tops of your cookies. This is where the magic happens people! They’re going to go from clearly-from-a-package to omg-these-are-homemade with just the addition of a few chips to each one. Perfection isn’t the goal here because you want it to look believable, so just shove a few in every which way until they look really delicious. Then transfer them to a cooling rack and let cool!
Pretty dang obvious which cookies got extra chips, huh?
That’s it y’all- two easy little tricks to make your cookies look (and taste) way better!!!
Now the real debate- nuts or no nuts in your chocolate chip cookies?! Let me know in the comments!
XO,
Han