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Default Choc chip cookies: chewy or crisp?

On Thu 30 Mar 2006 07:18:02a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Kate
Connally?

> Jude wrote:
>>
>> Good topic for debate. Do you like your chocolate chip cookies flat and
>> crisp, or puffy and chewy?

>
> Neither, flat and chewy. Crisp on the outside and chewy in
> the middle. The puffy ones aren't really chewy (the way I
> define chewy) they're more cakey. The secret for good crisp/chewy
> cookies is to use the Nestle's Tollhouse recipe but use all
> shortening - no butter - and don't over bake them.
>
> Kate


Well, it's not a secret anymore, Kate. You told! :-)

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