Michelle Obama's Chocolate Chip Cookies
For this recipe, I recommend using toasted pecans tossed in butter. They're perfectly fine without them, but I think any sort of nut really enhances this recipe, which is just a variation on the Toll House recipe. For the traditional flavor, stick with Nestle Toll House chips. Even though there are a lot of really good brands of chocolate chips, I think Nestle's have the most nostalgic taste.
Servings 50
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 1 cup pecan halves feel free to use more plus a teaspoon of butter
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (weigh for best results) (285 grams)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup salted butter, softened (114 grams)
- ½ cup Crisco (96 grams Crisco)
- ¾ cup granulated sugar (150 grams)
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar (150 grams)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs**
- 2 cups Nestle Tollhouse Morsels or whatever brand you like Semisweet Chocolate Chip
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lay pecans on a rimmed baking sheet and toast for about 5 to 7 minutes or until they start to release their oil. Toss the pecans with butter and let them cool, then chop them up. Set aside.
- Adjust oven heat to 375 degrees F.
- In a medium size bowl, mix together flour, baking soda and salt.
- In a large bowl with an electric mixer, beat butter, Crisco, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract. With mixer on low, add the eggs and beat on low just until mixed -- don't beat a lot of air into the batter.
- By hand, or if using a stand mixer use the paddle on low, stir in the flour mixture.
- When flour is blended, stir in the chips and nuts.
- Drop batter by tablespoons (I use a medium cookie scoop these days) onto ungreased or regular foil lined baking sheet and bake at 375 for 10 to 12 minutes.
- Let cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Notes
I like to use slightly less than two large eggs, which means cracking the eggs into a little cup, mixing them up and weighing out about 90 grams. Feel free to ignore the egg shenanigans, but I think the cookies are better with less egg.
