Hands down the best cookies ever. No Bacon Needed!

It's Sunday, November 29th. You wake up and think. "Mein Gott ist es schon die erste Adventsonntag??" bestimmt! And you need to make some cookies because your neighbours are having coffee time to celebrate this wonderfully joyous season. What you do NOT do is make bacon cookies, because they're just gross, no matter what anyone says. Meat does not a cookie make!

So what to bake? The Neiman Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie, of course. This is the cookie of the famous urban legend, but of course the recipe given in the legend is nothing near what the actual cookie is. NM, just to show how wrong that recipe is, and how they would never charge $250 for the recipe, have posted it on their website. I discovered the recipe years ago and it immediately became my favourite home-made cookie (my favourite store-bought is of course President's Choice The Decadent. I mean it is afterall 40% chocolate).

Here then is the fool proof, low-tech guide to making the perfect chocolate chip cookie:

The recipe calls for creaming together a stick (1/2 cup) butter with a mixture of brown (1c) and white (3tbsp) sugar. The trick here is if you don't have an electric mixer, just make a double boiler and let the butter slowly melt. Don't let it go to far though, just enough to let is soften up and then mix it good with a fork. For this you'll need a good sized metal bowl and a smaller pot. put your sugar and butter in the bowl and set it over the hot water. For the rest of the mixing, the recipe also calls for an electric mixer, but your fork will do you just fine!

Note the double boiler:

You should end up with something like this creamy smooth mixture of sugar and butter:

Add and egg and 2 tsp of vanilla extract:

For the dry ingredients mix 1.75 cups flour, 0.5 tsp baking powder, 0.5 tsp baking soda and a 0.5 tsp salt:

And slowly add it to your buttery sugar egg vanilla mixture:



Now come the two best parts. The secret ingredient is espresso (1.5 tsp). The recipe calls for instant, but I don't see why you shouldn't use regular. Go for something dark if you have it, and grind it fresh if you can.

And of course the chocolate chips (1.5 cups). I use PC's The Decadent, or course! (Yes, I brought a kilo of chocolate chips to Germany with me, do you know how hard it is to find chocolate chips here??)

Mix it in good:

The recipe says you can get two dozen cookies, but I made them a bit bigger and got 18:

Bake for approximately 20 minutes at 150C

Awesome, Awesome, Awesome! They are soft and delicious. The combo brown sugar, coffee, and decadent choco chips is amazing. I pig out every time I make them. There aren't gonna be enough for Adventsontag. ENJOY!