Grandmother Hilda Memorial Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

Great Aunt Suze is famous for her words.  She actually writes on the walls, paints really, when she finds a quote that she really likes.  Sometimes she makes them up, like these:

         No one in the world knows where I am.

         Surprise me.

         Let’s have a viewing. (This is for when she has finished a garden task and wants to step back and enjoy the result.)

Great Aunt Suze is also famous for her cooking, baking mostly.  She loves cinnamon toast, grilled tuna and cheese sandwiches and her favorite vegetable is roasted brussel sprouts.  She loves to make cookies for the kids and for herself, and she is including cookie recipes for you to try out.  Grandmother Hilda Memorial Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies are her favorite cookie with Nutmeg Cookie Logs coming in a close second.  You really should try them.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 C          Butter – Soft, Let it sit on the counter over night

• 1 C              Sugar

• 2                 Eggs – I crack them in my black cereal bowls so I can see if I get any shells in there.

• 2 C             Flour

• 1/2C           Cocoa Powder

• 1/4 t           Salt

• 2t               Baking Powder

• 3T              Milk

• 1 1/2t         Vanilla

• 1 package chocolate chips

• Up to 1 cup of chopped walnuts

Tools:

• Mixer with big mixing bowl

• Second bowl to hold the dry ingredients

• Measuring cups, 1 and 1/2 cup sizes

• Measuring spoons, 1/4t, 1/2t, 1t and 1T sizes

• Spatula

• Ice Cream Scoop

• Cookie sheets

• Pot Holders

• Turn on oven.  375 degrees. 

Now, in the big mixing bowl, cream together soft butter, sugar and eggs.  You will know this is “creamed” when you don’t see any butter or eggs, just a good smoosh of them together. 

Next, measure the flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder in a bowl of their own.  The “t” means teaspoon and the “T” means tablespoon.  People decided on the little “t” and the big “T” way back in history.  You will see in your drawer where you keep the measuring spoons that you have 1/4 t, 1/2t, 1t, and 1T spoons.   You will need all four.  The big “T” spoon is much larger.  Three times larger, I think.  Anyway, measure all of the “dry ingredients” into the second bowl. 

Mix the dry ingredients gently with a fork.  You will know you are done with this when all the dry ingredients are brownish.  No white should show.

Put about half of the dry ingredients into the egg/sugar/butter mixture.  Mix. 

Add the vanilla and the milk. Mix.

Now, add the rest of the dry ingredients.  Mix.

Add a package of chocolate chips and walnuts if you like walnuts.  Mix.  Scrape the bowl with the scraper to be sure everything is mixed.

I find that if I use an ice cream scoop to scoop the cookie dough the cookies all end up the same size and look good.  Ina Garten taught me this on the food channel.  I scoop the cookies and put them right on the cookie sheet leaving lots of space.  Nine or twelve should fit on your cookie sheet.  More scoops on a sheet and they will all run together.  Ina Garten would say that they would end up looking like a dog’s dinner, not good. 

Bake for 10 minutes and see if the cookies look done.  It is hard to tell with these because they are dark brown.  How would you know if they burned?  You wouldn’t!  But they should be firm, like a baked cake.