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The quintessential American baked good was this week’s Tuesdays with Dorie baking project; chocolate chip cookies. For as common and popular as chocolate chip cookies are, I find them one of the most challenging things to bake well.

Not because it’s a complicated batter to mix up, but because it’s difficult to find the right recipe to produce the style of chocolate chip cookie desired. Crunchy, chewy, thick, thin, what do you like? But more importantly how do you know if a given recipe will result in what you like? I don’t know the answer to this most vexing question even though I have finally managed to create a chocolate chip cookie recipe that produces the perfect cookie for me. All I know is now that I have my recipe I have stopped looking for others.

How do Dorie’s “My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies” rate for me? Good, but I’m still sticking with my recipe. I found these to be better than most in that they were chewy, but they were a little greasy, though less so after sitting for a day. These baked up thinner than I like. I made the recipe as written with the exception of skipping the nuts, chopping my own chocolate from a really good bar rather than using chips, and sprinkling a little flake salt on the top of each one prior to baking. If you don’t have a favorite recipe for chocolate chip cookies, I would encourage you to give these a try and see if they might just be your cookie nirvana. Kait, of Kait’s Plate picked the recipe for this week and has it posted on her blog.

Over 350 baking bloggers are baking our way thorough Dorie Greenspan’s book, Baking: From My Home to Yours . 113 recipes completed 108 to go! Look we are over the hump!

All photos by David Peterman unless otherwise noted

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