I had flagged the cookies as my next recipes to try and made sure that I had all the ingredients but I made the fatal error of not reading through the instructions first. Turns out that the chocolate chip cookies needed to rest for 6 hours and the peanut butter for 3. I like to bake because the reward is also instantaneous. It takes me 2o minutes to mix something up, I get it in the oven and then I get a tasty treat when it's done baking. Ta da! I don't want to wait 6 hours for cookies! But alas, I'm following the instructions exactly as written so I mixed up all the dough on Saturday night and baked them all on Sunday. Let me just tell you that there is nothing worse than scooping cold cookie dough except for scooping cold cookie dough with giant chunks of cold chocolate. I decided that I hated these cookies before I even had the chance to taste one.
The Verdict: With the waiting period and the cold dough scooping - I really really wanted to hate these cookies but they cannot be denied. They are tasty. Super tasty even. Even though I want to bake the recipes exactly as written, I couldn't help myself and in the chocolate chip cookies I added 2 cups of semi sweet and 3/4 cup of milk chocolate, I just love the mixture of two chocolates in one bite. The chocolate chip aren't the prettiest and there are 2 sticks of butter in each recipe but dammit, I loved these cookies.
Tips for Next Time: They're pretty solid cookies as-is. Aside from my mixing of 2 kinds of chocolate chips, I wouldn't change a thing. I had enough foresight to add some milk chocolate to half the peanut butter cookies so my husband couldn't eat the entire batch, he was annoyed but his coworkers seemed to enjoy the little addition.
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