choco choco chip!

Cookies

Chocolate chip. Oatmeal raisin. White chocolate macadamian nut. Chocolate chip. Vanilla wafer. Peanut butter. Macaroon. Chocolate chip.

Seems to be the consensus when you ask someone "Name a Cookie" Chocolate chip is the first and only one you can think of.  Took me a good 60 seconds to think of a 2nd and nothing after that. How many times have you tried and failed to make a new cookie recipe? For me, I can't even count. I've had the cookies that didn't rise and mashed together, the cookies where you added powdered sugar instead of flour, the cookies that had to wait 4 hours til someone could run to town and get eggs, the cookies that got half a bag of chocolate chips or a quarter bag for that matter. Then of course theres the cookies that didn't get baked because family members ate all the dough and got belly aches, the cookies that forgot to set a timer and burnt, the cookies that tasted like butt and only you're dad would eat, and thennnn the cookies you made today which you thought would be amazing because you substituted splenda brown sugar and splenda white granulated sugar for regular. Surely to be a tasty Neiman-Marcus cookie you could eat tons of because they were low-calorie. NOPE. Not that tasty, in fact taste like cardboard. Texture of sand that fall apart immediately after picking it up, but of course my dad tells me "they're not that bad with a little milk" :)

Why oh why do I continue to try new chocolate chip cookie recipes? Why don't I just stick with the traditional Jane's Chocolate Chip cookie recipe scribbled in Sharpie on the cover of my mom's cookbook? Instead I decide to try and out-do myself and think I'm going to come up with some AMAZINGLY spectacular new never before tried recipe of chocolate chip cookies, when let's get real just impossible.
Now, go eat a cookie. Make sure it's choco choco chip.