On Sunday, I bit the bullet and made batch two. I don't know why I was dreading it so. I guess I was just thinking about how much work it takes to get to the final result. In fact, my neighbor who was eagerly awaiting the taste of a homemade cookie straight from the oven said, "I can see why people do slice-n-bake now. This is a lot of work!" But then again, when you're trying to make The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie, I guess that should be expected.
In making this batch, I realized that I had done somthing wrong last time: I didn't separate the wet and dry mixtures. You're supposed to mix up all the wet stuff and the sugars in one bowl, all the dry stuff in another and then mix them slowly together. I'm not sure what difference this makes but I thought that I should follow the directions as written.
I also made some changes that I had mentioned earlier. First, I used regular chocolate chips instead of semi-sweet. Batch 1 just didn't seem as sweet as I thought they should be and my testers (see earlier blog) seemed to agree. Second, I made them smaller. The cookies seemed to large last time which made them a little more cake-like than I prefer. I had a bigger cookie sheet than last time so this meant that I didn't have to use 10 different panfuls in order to make them the right size.
The only feedback I've gotten so far is from my neighbor who enthusiastically said that "homemade DEFINITELY beats slice-n-bake!!"
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