Thursday 3 March 2011

Chocolate Chip Cookies

 Chocolate Chip Cookies
The word cookie is derived from the Dutch word cookie koeki meaning "little cake," and arrived in our language through the Dutch in North America. Cookies are though to have emerged in 7th Century Persia when the use of sugar in cooking became popular. Making cookies at home is now a favourite pastime for children and adults alike.
Since then cookies have been enjoyed as a more decadent take on the traditional  British biscuit and hundreds of cookie recipes have emerged using chocolate, nuts and fruit, presenting us with a variety of recipe ideas for home-baked cookies. The classic chocolate chip cookie is an American favourite and is baked for a small amont of time to create a soft and chewy texture.
Chinese fortune cookies are served after a meal in America and some parts of Europe, although the tradition is not practised in China. The cookies contain small messages of prophecy or fortune. The batter contains sesame and miso and originated in Japan before being introduced to the United States.
Baking cookies at home is a popluar treat for children and a good way of introducing them to baking. Making peanut butter cookies is a good way of serving them a protein packed snack whilst still being flavoursome. Simple cookie recipes are tasty treat to make and enjoy at home.

The chocolate chip cookie was born in America and said to be discovered in 1933 by Ruth Graves Wakefield of Massachusetts. Ruth was said to be baking cookies and had run out of regular bakers chocolate. She substituted it with Nestle chocolate chips thinking the chocolate would melt and mix in to batter but It did not melt and world got new dessert that was chocolate chip cookie. Ruth sold this recipe to Nestle in exchange for a lifetime supply of chocolate chips.

A chocolate chip cookie is a drop cookie that originated in the United States and features chocolate chips as its distinguishing ingredient. The traditional recipe combines a dough composed of butter and both brown and white sugar with semi-sweet chocolate chips. Variations include recipes with other types of chocolate or additional ingredients, such as nuts or oatmeal.

The recipe for chocolate chip cookies uses a thick dough containing flour, sugar, vanilla essence, butter, baking soda, salt and of course, chocolate chips. The chocolate chips can be substituted for peanuts or oats and for a truly soft cookie recipe are baked for only a short amount of time to give them their famous doughy texture.

It will depend upon requirement that what type of cookie you want. According to the need ratio of ingredients, its mixing and cooking time give you a softer, chewy style cookie while others will produce a crunchy/crispy style.  Regardless of ingredients, the procedure for making the cookie is fairly consistent in all recipes.

Since its birth, there have been many variations on the original Nestle toll house recipe. Double chocolate chip cookies are popular and substitute the vanilla flavoured dough for chocolate, giving the cookie an additional richness. Flavour combinations such as white chocolate with macadamia, toffee, oatmeal and raisin and peanut butter have all grown to become classics in their own right, tweaking the simple chocolate chip cookie recipe of 1933.

Today practically all commercial bakeries have their own variation of the chocolate chip cookies and many chains sell their own freshly baked-cookies on premises. Millie’s Cookies sells freshly baked cookies with a large selection of flavours to choose from.  Supermarkets stock favourites such as the Maryland cookie, designed to recreate the home-baked chocolate chip cookie recipe. Popular ice-cream brands such as Baskin & Robbins and Ben & Jerry’s have a chocolate chip cookie-dough flavoured ice cream, containing chunks of soft cookie dough in vanilla ice cream.

In 1997 Massachusetts paid homage to the chocolate chip cookie by declaring it the Official State Cookie, after it was proposed by a school in Somerset, Massachusetts. To make your own easy chocolate chip cookies, see our selection of quick cookie recipes at MyDish.

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