Bear Country Cookies

 

Everyone needs a favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. This one is mine. It's only recently come into my life-- I had these for the first time about a year ago and I haven't been able to stop thinking about them since. I consider these a Christmas present from my brother's girlfriend Jamie ( thank you! thank you!) because now I can make them myself instead of going to Utah for my fix. Don't think that didn't cross my mind. I would have found them eventually.

 

As it turns out, they are the creation of a company called Kodiak Cakes, who started with boxed pancake and brownie mixes and now have some stores that sell cookies. Visit their website for mixes, recipes, syrups and all the latest news in their cookie development. I would love to try their lemon cookies, as well as the cookie sundae. Brilliant idea.

 

The website also has a blog that lists some cookie tips- a series of suggestions for cookie-making success. Things like baking for a shorter time at a higher temperature and cutting back on sugar to let the flavor of the chocolate (really good chocolate) come through. This recipe has just enough sugar to make a good tasting cookie, but not so much that you can't taste the chocolate and the butter. The butter (and the vanilla) are what make this cookie so special. It's densely chewy, it melts in your mouth and you'll dream about them after the last one is gone.

 

I thought about whether I should focus on mostly savory dishes for the New Year (for variety and also so my jeans will still fit) but I really wanted to share this recipe with you. I love it because it's so simple; it's perfection and the ingredients are the same as most any other cookie recipe out there. But it's what you do with them, how you bake them, the proportions that are used that make these so unique. Keeping things simple is a good rule to follow in the realm of baking, not just cooking. Good ingredients can make magic happen for a batch of plain, simple, classic chocolate chip cookies. 

 

Bes

Best Milk Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe, by Kodiak Cakes

1 cup butter, softened

½ c white sugar

1 c brown

2 eggs

3 c flour

1 t vanilla

1 t soda

1 t salt

1 cup chocolate chunks

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and vanilla, mix well, then add dry ingredients, and mix just until combined.  Fold in choc chips.  Bake on ungreased cookie sheets from 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees.  

t Milk Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe, by Kodiak Cakes

1 cup butter, softened

½ c white sugar

1 c brown

2 eggs

3 c flour

1 t vanilla

1 t soda

1 t salt

1 cup chocolate chunks

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and vanilla, mix well, then add dry ingredients, and mix just until combined.  Fold in choc chips.  Bake on ungreased cookie sheets from 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees.  

Best Milk Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe, by Kodiak Cakes

1 cup butter, softened

½ c white sugar

1 c brown

2 eggs

3 c flour

1 t vanilla

1 t soda

1 t salt

1 cup chocolate chunks

Cream butter and sugar, add eggs and vanilla, mix well, then add dry ingredients, and mix just until combined.  Fold in choc chips.  Bake on ungreased cookie sheets from 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees.