TWD: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Tuesdays with Dorie this week is all about my (and probably most everyone else's favorite cookie - in this case the cookies are known as My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies chosen by Kait at Kait's Plate.

Now, I have used many, many chocolate chip cookie recipes over the years and haven't ever really met a cookie I didn't like. That said, I have made this recipe two times, and both times, for some reason the results were less than stellar. In fact, the first time the cookies practically melted on the pan.

The second time I tried chilling the dough and following some of the high altitude changes suggested by King Arthur Flour since that has usually been the problem in the past when cookie recipes have somewhat failed for me. The cookies pictured here are the high altitude version, but since the results were still not what I was hoping for, they still don't beat out the NY Times Chocolate Chip Cookies for me (recipe here). I still give Dorie partial credit for that recipe as well since she is one of the sources consulted for the article, so it is still a TWD in my book! I don't know what it is about that recipe, but those cookies behave so nicely here at my Utah altitude (about 4,300 ft) that I'm still not switching.

I know the problem isn't just Dorie's recipe though because I've run into the same issue with several different recipes - it is just an altitude thing and I'm not knowledgeable enough to fix it on my own, so there you go. I hope that others fared better than I did. While you might think that altitude may not make too much of a difference, to give you an idea of the difference between where I live vs Dorie's elevation in NYC - well, the difference is drastic. While I'm at about 4,300 ft, NYC is pretty much at sea level.

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