I Bake For One - Chocolate Chip Cookies

The gooey, soft, personal chocolate chip cookie recipe you didn't know you always needed.

Growing up I could make a large batch of cookies, blink, and my younger brothers would have them devoured. Living on my own that just isn't the case anymore. I set out to scale down my chocolate cookie recipes while still achieving the soft, chewy texture. (In my eyes soft cookies will always reign supreme over those crunchy hard bricks that require massive amounts of milk)

Now I've seen publications with a chocolate chip cookie recipe that yield two perfect cookies, or a brownie recipe that can be baked in a mug in your microwave for personal consumption, but leftovers are a beautiful thing. My recipe yields approximately 12 cookies that will remain soft as the day you baked them. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", but the dentist won't notice if you eat a cookie a day, Nor will your scale for that matter.

Before you stop reading this post because you were narrow-mindedly only interested in one or two cookies... consider this, I've made a list of possible outcomes for the remainder of the batch.

1. Bring them to work. Nothing screams office hero quite like turning up with baked goods.

2. Thank someone via sweets opposed to a hand-written card. I for one am a big fan of the thank-you cards, but even I can speak for this being a great alternative.

3. Find your way into someone's heart. We've all heard it before, the stomach is indeed the way to a man's/woman's heart. Don't believe me? Give them your extra cookies and await the outcome.

4. Scoop half of the batch onto a cookie sheet and freeze it. This way you can bake them off as you find fitting. You may also decide that eating the frozen cookie dough is an outstanding alternative.

5. Be realistic with yourself, had you made one or two cookies, you would find yourself wanting the other 10 anyways.

While I could go on and on about how there is no such thing as too many cookies, I'll stop there. For I have no intentions of boring those who read this and just want me to cut to the chase and give you my recipe.

I Bake For One - Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 & 1/8 cup All-Purpose Flour

1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda

1/2 cup Unsalted Butter, room temperature

1/4 cup Granulated Sugar

1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar, packed

1/2 teaspoon Salt

2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract

1 each Egg

2.5 cups Dark Chocolate Chips

Directions:

1. Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees

2. In a small bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, baking soda, and salt.

3. In a stationary mixer, combine room temperature butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar. Mix on medium speed until fully combined and aerated.

4. While on medium speed, add the egg then the vanilla extract.

5. Turn mixer to low speed and gradually add in the dry ingredients you had first combined.

6. Remove the bowl from the mixer and fold into chocolate chips with a rubber scraper or wooden spoon.

7. Eat some cookie dough to make sure it tastes alright. (step not necessary, but highly encouraged)

8. Scoop the cookie dough onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, leaving cookies approximately 2-3 inches apart because they will spread while baking.

9. Bake cookies for approximately 8 minutes. The edges should be slightly brown but the center will not take on much color.

10. Remove from oven, allow to cool slightly on cookie sheet, after a few minutes cookies may be moved to a wire rack.

There you have it, the perfect chocolate chip cookie dough recipe for someone living alone in a studio apartment. After all, any pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard enough. I have no doubt in my mind that this batch of cookies can be devoured by you personally if you set your mind to it.

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