Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies I Made It Ii

Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies

mommyluvs2cook 6 years ago
By: Shandy

Omg, these are SO GOOD! I followed the recipe EXACTLY. I always have trouble baking cookies. They spread too much, or they don't spread at all, or the middle is raw but the outside is overdone, etc. So I was really worried about these since they are so huge, not turning out right. Somehow, they ended up perfect! The insides were still soft and gooey and the outsides were slightly crisp. My family inhaled them, lol. Thanks for an amazing chocolate chip cookie Shandy :)

Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies
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eastcoaster 6 years ago said:

My those look wonderful.Lovely photo mommyluvs2cook.

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mommyluvs2cook 6 years ago said:

Thank you Manella!

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chuckieb 6 years ago said:

Ooooooo....they're gorgeous! NOM!

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mommyluvs2cook 6 years ago said:

Thanks Janet, they really did turn out pretty :)

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Good4U 6 years ago said:

YUM! They look perfect!

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Cosmicmother 6 years ago said:

Wow, that looks like cookie perfection!! YUM! :D

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LindaLMT 6 years ago said:

OH WOW!! They are picture perfect ... now I want a chocolate chip cookie.

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mommyluvs2cook 6 years ago said:

Thanks everyone!!

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mommyluvs2cook 6 years ago said:

Just so you know for anyone who plans on making these, they are about 3 times bigger than a regular cookie lol, HUGE!! I could only fit 4 to a baking sheet :P :) I make my kids split one when it's dessert time!

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bakerme 6 years ago said:

Oh my gosh, those are beautiful cookies, Mommyluvs! Chocolate chip are my favorite and these look just the way we like them, thick and chewy - yummy! They may be three times as big as 1 regular size cookie, but my "problem" is, I could eat a huge one (or two ;)) and not blink twice!

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DIZ3 6 years ago said:

Beautiful cookies! Would love to have one right out of the oven.

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bakerme 6 years ago said:

I forgot to ask if you added the chopped nuts and how long you baked them. Also, how many cookies do you think it would make if you made the dough balls smaller, like about 1-1/2 inches??

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CherylsCookingNow 6 years ago said:

Great photo! The one thing that I learned of baking cookies so they'll rise is to use salt in while beating the dough. Some people use butter. I use buttered flavored crisco. That will also help. Glad everyone loved them.

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bakerme 6 years ago said:

The best trick I've found to get thicker cookies is to use bread flour instead of all-purpose. Most of my cookies were coming out as flat as pancakes until I switched to bread flour. *None* of the other tricks worked - chilling the dough, increasing the amount of flour, using shortening instead of butter, using half shortening and half butter, raising the oven temp, lowering the oven temp - aarrgghhhh! I still use all-purpose in my more delicate cutout sugar cookies and meltaways, but use bread flour in all of the others. Success at last!

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mommyluvs2cook 6 years ago said:

Thanks ladies!

Bakerme, I would have LOVED nuts in these, but the hubs is not a fan, so I didn't add them. I'm thinking you would get at LEAST 48 cookies Bakerme rolling them smaller, I would halve the batch if you don't want that many, but I'm also sure that you can freeze them as well :)

Great tips for cookie making as well y'all! Cookies are usually my least favorite thing to bake, mainly because you have to do batches and it can take a while with constant watching and checking, and because I just can't seem to get the science down lol. I'll keep those tips in mind :)

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DIZ3 6 years ago said:

Mommyluvs2cook, I feel the exact same way about cookies. Just when I think I have it down, a batch fails for no reason at all. If I bake for the holidays, I just plan on a 50% fail rate so that way I won't get frustrated. lol!

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bakerme 6 years ago said:

Mommyluvs, I love chopped pecans in chocolate chip cookies, but my husband doesn't like what he calls "stuff" (nuts) in any baked goodies. And I would definitely have to halve the recipe or OD on that many cookies!

Oh no on the cookie fails, DIZ! I can't imagine planning on a 50% fail rate when making them, especially at the price of butter and vanilla these days - ouch! Cookies are probably my most favorite thing to bake and, other than the flat issue, have really good luck with them. Try using bread flour in recipes like chocolate chip, oatmeal, snickerdoodles, peanut butter, etc. and save the all-purpose for more delicate cookies.

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mommyluvs2cook 6 years ago said:

Lol DIZ, that's one way to look at it! Well at least the one's that fail still taste good and you can crumble them over ice cream or something, that's what we do!!

I love pecans in cookies too Bakerme :) I'll have to try the bread flour in my cookies soon!

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bakerme 6 years ago said:

Mommyluvs, whenever I try bread flour in a cookie recipe for the first time, I make 2 test cookies first. I roll the dough into 1-1/2 inch balls and leave one as is and flatten the other slightly so I can see how the cookies bake up and spread in the oven. Then I make the rest the dough the way I think whichever test cookie came out best. Does that make sense?? Let me know how it works for you :)

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