I was trying out a new recipe in my crock pot "Easy Cheesy Chicken" from my AllRecipes.com iPhone app. I had read the reviews and they were good, but many who tried it recommended adding a bag of chopped broccoli and some mushrooms--two of my favorite ingredients. So I do, and when Bobby and I got home this afternoon we walk through the door and the apartment REAKS! I can't even describe it properly, but it was like stench coming out of every corner of the apartment! Bobby started gagging. Thank goodness I usually use crock pot liners (found with Ziploc bags at the store) so even though it was still hot, we could tie off the liner with our dinner in it, trash it, and move the trash to the balcony. We are so classy like that. But the whole apartment still stinks to the point of Bobby having to hide in his office. So I go to work with my Clorox wipes and lemon spray cleaning everything and lighting candles. And I decide to fight fire with fire...get rid of one stench by baking something that will smell really yummy!
Brilliant, I know, but turns out I don't have any eggs. So I yell to Bobby to Google me anything to bake without needing eggs, and he finds a Mrs. Field's Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. About halfway into it I discover I actually do have one egg hiding in the back of the fridge, and toss it in. Turns out, this recipe not only cures my kitchen of overcooked broccoli stench, but has won our hearts and is our NEW GO-TO CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPE. Seriously they came out huge! look! they're like the size of biscuits!
Anne's Adaption to Mrs. Field's Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 1/4th cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/8 (few sprinkles) of salt
1/2 cup butter, softened (didn't have any of that either, so I used butter-flavored Crisco and still best cookies ever)
1/4 cup white sugar (used Splenda)
1/2 cup honey
1 to 1.5 cups chocolate chips (less if you don't like sweet cookies, more if you do)
1 egg!
Preheat oven to 300. In a small bowl combine the flour, soda, and salt with a wire whisk, and set it aside. With an electric mixer, blend butter, sugar, egg, and honey (I poured the honey straight into the mixing bowl and kind of eyeballed-it). Beat at medium speed until soft and scrape sides with a spatula if needed. Add flour mixture and chocolate chips, and mix until well blended.
Drop spoonfuls of dough onto ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 18-20 minutes.
The recipe calls for 2 dozen, but I use a *little* more than a spoonful, and just made 12 giant cookies, as shown above. SO GOOD!
