Since J is gone for the entire summer, working at an internship all alone in a strange town, I’ve decided to put together care packages to send to him. Cute, right? Right. They’ve got themes and everything. One thing that will be in every package though, at the request of the J man himself, is homemade cookies. I found this recipe forever ago and saved it to my computer, and I thought it’d be a good one to try for my (first ever) attempt at from-scratch cookies since apparently they’re the “best in the world” or something. Here goes.

Since the photo that I saved only lists the ingredients, I went online and found directions here, from the Great Homemaker herself. If you plan on attempting this recipe, make sure you have the right flour! My grocery store had the bread flour over to the side of all the usual flour, and I found the pastry flour over in the organic food section.

Also, when buying chocolate, the entire 2 lbs is not necessary, depending on how chocolate-y you want your cookies. I bought three 10-lb bags and that was more than enough.

At the top of the ingredients list, it says that the recipe makes twenty-six 5 inch cookes or eight and a half dozen 1 1/4 inch cookies.
Lies.
Baking 3 inch cookies, this recipe made about… a million. Give or take.
Okay, maybe closer to a hundred. But still! I was baking cookies for HOURS, literally from noon up until the time I had to leave for work at 430. And I still wasn’t finished, I had about another baking sheet worth of dough left I had to put in the fridge. Geez.

This recipe’s final rating:
Delicious Multitude 

{post by hellokorin}