What's your favorite, perfect chocolate chip cookie?? I need DU

[radwriter0555]

help about preferences in chocolate chip cookies because I'm thinking of starting a small business... Be my LAB ANIMALS please!

So gang, how do we prefer our chocolate chip cookies? If you were to buy fresh made....

My interest is in texture and appearance. I have the flavors down perfectly, and now need to figure out what is most visually appealing to people, shape wise, and appealing as far as actual in-the-bite texture.

Now, don't necessarily reflect what's available, but what you in your heart of chocolate chip cookie loving hearts DESIRE. What you crave most in a cookie.

At this point, I'm not doing any add ins, so I don't need to hear about nuts or m & m's and stuff. Let's stick to the purest, simplest form of the ultimate chocolate chip cookie!

THANKS, and I'll find some way to get some samples uploaded!

[Frank Cannon]

1. Kind of hard to beat the Toll House variety

The crisp on the outside, chewy on the inside kind. They're easy to make and they ALWAYS taste good. (If they're not burned.)

[kay1864]

2. Do you have The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook?

It's by the Cook's Illustrated people. They do dozens of variations on a recipe, until they find the best version. So they have the ultimate CCC recipe.

If you don't have the cookbook, if you like I can fax the recipe to you.

[radwriter0555]

4. Awww thanks! You are so nice to offer! My cookies are perfect, it's now

all about the shape, size and texture. It's all in the marketing you know; appealing on a visual and emotional level to the consumer. Once they've tasted them, they're sold. I have to appeal to the broadest audience to make them want to taste them and spend far too much money on them.

You're absolutely right about Cooks Illustrated. I LOVE them, and have really relied on them for a lot of top quality kitchen stuff, from cookware to outstanding recipes. They can't be beat!

And it looks like the crispy outside, gooey inside and rather flat and symmetrical is the way out front leader, even if only in a small sampling. It's as I thought, but I wanted to run it up the flagpole.

I may go ahead and rent a table and have selection and see which type is the most popular... maybe.

[LeftyMom]

3. I prefer them a bit chewy since I freeze and mail more than I eat.

The freezing dries them out a bit and I don't want them to be tough by the time they get to thier destination. I prefer moist cookies anyhow so it works out nicely for the dozen or so I keep and eat too.

[u4ic]

5. My preference is

milk/white/dark chocolate chunks with pecans, held together with a bit of dough. :9

[Duer 157099]

6. Much as I love "the usual suspects" there's one I love even more

It's the one they make at Ghiradelli Square in San Francisco. When I first saw them, I asked if they were scones!

The dough is scone-like in some ways, but not as flakey.

Oh, I just did a search and there are recipes on their site, but I can't be sure if any of these are the ones they sell at the store:

http://www.ghirardelli.com/bake/recipes.aspx

[LaraMN]

7. The first option, but of course, I prefer the dough to the baked cookie...

:rofl:

[SmokingJacket]

8. With nuts.

I know you said no add ins, but nuts ROCK!!!