"chocolatechipcookies" news and stories

Chocolate chip cookies are magic. Especially when warm. And sprinkled with sea salt.

Jim Mamary and Alan Harding were Brooklyn restaurant pioneers, opening a dozen restaurants in the past decade. But now people are mad because they say their restaurants are chains. Chains are bad. Yuppie fight!

If the above item makes you roll your eyes at New York, consider this: the city has roaming "Sweetmobiles" serving cookies, hot waffles, and crème brûlée. I heart New York indeed.

Eric Asimov gives poor, maligned dry sherry some love.

The Minimalist does cold soup.

A recipe for a pea and raw squash salad.

Fried milk. Cool. See for yourself.

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Midwest Airlines has started selling cookie dough for its well liked chocolate chip cookies in a high end grocery store chain in the Kansas City area, Hen House Market. This comes less than a year after the airline began selling the cookie dough in Milwaukee area grocery store chain Sendik's Food Market. Spokespeople for the airline say that passengers have been asking about the cookies for years, so now the company is able to give the people what they want.

I haven't heard about these cookies, but it sounds like they are pretty popular. The cookies are actually baked in flight, which I found surprising. I have a hard time thinking of any airline food as good. I guess there is an exception to every rule. Has anyone had these cookies who'd like to share their opinion?

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In advance of Valentine's Day the good folks at the San Diego Union Tribune's food section conducted a tasting of chocolate chips earlier this week. Not being much of a baker, I'd opt for champagne truffles as way to express affection through chocolate rather than chocolate chips.

But let's get back to the paper's survey. The eight panelists sampled the chips in cookies and out of hand, one of my favorite ways to, ahem, "test" chocolate chips.

The chocolatey morsels were evaluated for flavor, texture and performance in a cookie. And the winner for best performance in a cookie (and overall winner) was Guittard Real Semisweet Chocolate Chips. I've never heard of Guittard but a quick Google search revealed that the E. Guittard is a purveyor of some mighty fine sounding gourmet chocolate bars, including Venezuelan Sur de Lago.

The runner-up in the tasting was an old-school classic: Nestle Toll House Semisweet Chocolate Morsels.

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It's Christmas evening and I'm sitting around the fire at my parent's house with my favorite baking partners: my sister Abby and my babysitter Katie, a family friend. We're mulling over that question that irks every girl who got a couple of new baking toys and has a Costco bag of chocolate chips to use up: what, exactly, should I bake?

That's when I remembered Heidi's recipe for peppermint bark chocolate chip cookies. What a great way to use leftover Christmas candy! (Or, an excuse to hit those post-Christmas 50%-off sales.) You needn't stop at peppermint bark, either - try chopping up any number of leftover chocolate-based confections. We're planning on experimenting with the recipe over the next few days. Anyone else out there baking tonight?

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