make my own cookie recipe

How I did it:    It
really started with an accident, really. I put too much brown sugar in the recipe.
I was following the Toll House recipe...only the wrong one. But I liked it. I

also put more chocolate chips in mine. So I decided to keep the brown sugar
like that. But the dough was too thin. I added more flour. Finally, one
weekend, I sat down and wrote down ingredients. I made 5 half batches. I tried
it with cinnamon, without cinnamon, with milk, and without milk. I wanted to
add things to make it my own and to make it perfect. I wrote down notes as I
made the cookies and how they tasted afterwards. I marked the plates and got my

mom, who is a very good cook, to try them. And I narrowed it down to two:  without the cinnamon and milk and then with
both those ingredients. But I didn’t think there was enough flour still and she

thought there were too many chocolate chips. A couple weekends after that, I
rewrote the recipe and made a half recipe again. This time they were perfect.

And I was sooo happy. I then tried it out on my French class. They loved it.
One guy asked me if there was coconut in it. But I told him it was the cinnamon.

I got high compliments from my mom. Trust me, she has been cooking since she was
a little girl. She doesn’t give out compliments like that. I’m very proud of
myself for making this recipe. 

Lessons & tips: Basically just keep trying over and over again till the texture and taste is right. Always have a second opinon next to you. Don't worry if it turned out horrible. You're learning. 

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Dec 13, 2008, 09:38AM PST | 3 comments | 2 cheers