My quest has begun for concocting the best chocolate chip cookie. Most bakers go through this challenge once in their lifetime and it does take quite a while to find the perfect batter. My trick was to try out many different recipes and to use little touches that I enjoyed the most from each one . Now, after baking dozens of different kinds, I have found the first recipe that I would like to share with you. Although it may not be the last one that I show you, I can guarantee that these will be a hit!

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So first and foremost, I gotta let you in on one of my top 3 pet peeves. Crispy, hard and overbaked cookies!!!

To tell you the truth, this is one of the reasons why I began my baking extravaganza. A lot of the hobbies that I start in my life are primarily because I want to conquer a problem of mine in some way. For example, you may ask why I tried to become more like Arnold Schwarzenegger when I was in high school? Well, like many boys, I was born. And then 17 years later I realized that becoming like Arnold just made sense. I started pumping iron as a hobby with a goal in mind to become the next Mr. Olympia. Of course I chose the one goal that I was never going to attain, mainly because I prefer baked goods to steroids! So there ya have it. But back to my original reason for this post…:)

When I first began baking I had a goal of figuring out how to uncrispify my cookies and make them into delicious mounds of chewy. It took me many burnt cookies and frustrating nights before I slammed on the panic button and realized that I had just jumped into this whole baking thing without any knowledge. Major NO NO. A little background research and I was on my way to baking in a burnt free kitchen! Quick, join me in learning more!

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An original from The Male Baker kitchen! I just got sick of using other recipes and only adding my own touches. Instead I made this recipe from scratch and it went great. The last few weeks I have been doing a lot of research about proportions in baked goods, including cookies, and the flour mixture ingredients and their functions. Pretty cool stuff I know. I have been really interested in the science behind baking so I thought that I would put it to use. If you are curious about the proportions to make your own from scratch, keep an eye out for a post that covers some of what I have been learning. In the mean time, grab all you favourite baking tools and mix this concoction up!

By going out on a limb with this recipe, I wasn’t sure if it was going to work out or not. That is the kind of territory that I didn’t want to get into for the first few years of my baking hobby. But I figured out that

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