Gooey Goodness Tuesday: Chocolate Chip Cookies

I like cookies. Cookies like my hips. I hope you like classic, yum cookies.  I got this recipe from my great grandmother, who was French. Her name was Nessle Tulouse. 

Or, Nestle Tollhouse.

No lie, the best simple chocolate chip cookie recipe. A little extra salt, a little extra flour and you're good to go.

Ingredients. Exciting, no?

Dry ingredients in the bowl. The recipe calls for 2.25 cups of flour. I don't even off my flour on the last scoop and so it comes out likely to about 2.3 or so, which I think makes them a bit fluffier.

Baking soda. Wee!

My second tip: a bit extra salt. I think what makes chocolate chip cookies so yum is the saltiness of the dough juxtaposed with the sugary chocolate morsels. So I do a bit extra salt and it's just yum.

Yay, butter! Lightly softened so that it's room temp.

Mix it all together and you turn yourself around...

That's what it's all about! I love brown sugar. I use dark brown for the extra molassassy- flavor.

Mix it all up!

Oh, dough, how I covet thee.

Super fun this time around? I chopped up a Lindt chocolate reindeer I got for Christmas and used those chocolate bits with my chips for extra creamy yum.

Dump in that chocolate.

So, the other day, Topher and I were at Crate and Barrel. We had some gift cards, I don't know why, but Topher did. Perhaps left over wedding gifts? Or Christmas gifts? Anyway, we had money to spend.    We went in for dish towels, since the week before, Topher put our white and black striped dish towels in the washing machine with our yellow table cloths. And, welp, we now have pee colored towels with black stripes. So, new dish towels were needed. Thank everything Topher is the domestic one because he, for one, knew we needed these new towels because, for two, he actually washed our old ones.

Ok, so. We were at Crate and Barrel. For so long, I've longed for a dough scoop. Just those little moving parts of metal to help me even out my cookies and cupcakes. I picked up the cool-to-the-touch handle, said "ooh!" and promptly dropped it back into its bin, telling myself to be smart and good and let Topher spend the magical gift cards because well, for one, he somehow found them or received them, and for two, he washes our dish towels and I didn't even know they needed washing.

And what did hubs do? Picked up that cold metal and sneakily carried it in his hand through out the store, plopping it on the counter for purchasing, surprising me! 12.95, well spent, as you can see above.

Plop those cookies on sheets.

Do as I do, and admire our new Crate and Barrel kitchen towels and the perfectly sized cookies courtesy of hubs surprise gift.

Then enjoy those crispy-edged-soft-inner cookies.

Do you really want the recipe you can find on the back of the bag? Just in case:

I've heard the New York Times recipe is amazing, and think it looks great- just not as simple. What's your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe?