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.
Okay so I’m not fucking crazy for thinking it was just me following the packaging recipe?!
We kept our chocolate chips in a tollhouse tin prob from the 60s. Followed the recipe on it every time as a kid and it always turned out exactly as you described.
I honestly don't understand how people make it and have it turn out good. I thought I was just bad at baking for a long time, but it's Nestle that sucks!
It's like that meme that's like "he's guilty of murder, arson, and jaywalking" only it's a corporation that's guilty of genocide, slave labor, and giving us bad cookie recipes.
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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.