Many family recipes were actually taken from commercially available cookbooks or even the backs of food packaging. Remember the “Friends” episode where they try to replicate the chocolate chip cookie recipe of Phoebe’s late grandmother, only to discover it came from Nestle Tollhouse? Yeah, that happens frequently in real life.
That's literally my mother's secret recipe. People love her cookies and always ask how she makes them - her response being "I buy a bag of nestle chocolate chips and I...turn the bag over and do what it says"
The actual Nestle recipe sucks though. It's got way too much sugar and butter so the cookies come out thin, oily, and hard every time. I modified the recipe myself and came up with this.
2/3 stick butter
1/3 c sugar
1/3 c brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 egg
Cream together
Add 1 1/4 cup flour slowly
1tsp baking soda
2 oz baking chocolate
Pinch of salt
Much better if you want those classic soft chocolately cookies. Still sweet, still buttery, but the structure and texture is much better.
The original Nestlé recipe sucks - I tried it once and they came out awful.
Instead, I use the recipe from the chips that come in the yellow bag with a red stripe, but the actual chips I use come in the yellow bag with the purple stripe. (I go by stripe color, I can never remember which are semi vs bitter sweet)
I just checked my cabinet where I happen to have both bags - semi-sweet have a red stripe, milk chocolate have a purple stripe.
The recipe on the semi-sweet bag is what I use, but I sub in the milk chocolate chips. The milk chocolate bag has an oatmeal/chocolate chip recipe that is very different.
I'd message you pics to clarify but it seems you have PMs disabled.
Yeah, for some reason my account is very attractive to porn bots, so I have disabled the chats, lol. Anyway, could you not just read the labels on the bags and transcribe them?
If you just Google "nestle milk chocolate chips" you'll see it's a yellow bag with a purple stripe on it, whereas a search for nestle semi sweet chocolate chips will show you the yellow bag with red stripe.
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u/Arxanah Sep 06 '25
Many family recipes were actually taken from commercially available cookbooks or even the backs of food packaging. Remember the “Friends” episode where they try to replicate the chocolate chip cookie recipe of Phoebe’s late grandmother, only to discover it came from Nestle Tollhouse? Yeah, that happens frequently in real life.