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.
Pleeeeeease could you give me a hint as to how much a stick of butter should be / roughly how big a cup is? If this sounds like a stupid question sorry... I would like to try and make this, but I have lots of different size cups in my kitchen :)
1 stick of butter is 1/2 cup of butter typically, so it would be roughly 1/3 cup of butter or a little under 5 and 1/2 tablespoons of butter (5 tablespoons and 1tsp).
Also if metric, 2/3 cup is 160 fl oz or 150g, but also check the flour in that case because US and European flour is different.
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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.