Easy-Peasy Night: Part 2 - Word!!, to the homies!

The curried eggs took about 2.2 seconds to make so I needed something a bit more challenging this evening! Tom includes a hometown favorite - chocolate-chip cookies - in his Afters chapter as an accompaniment to ice cream, but really, they could be eaten with anything or even perfect on their own.

10. A simple chocolate chip cookie - *Afters*

So after having a very non-American, and dare I say, Anglo-Indian dish like the Curried Eggs on Toast, I thought I'd give a shout-out to my homies and make this quintessential American cookie!

I would have to say that this cookie, bar-none, has to be one of the simplest around. Methods don't often change, and these cookies spread out quite thin so do not take long to bake at all.
The dough is basically a combination of butter and caster and brown sugars. Tom asks for golden caster sugar, which I learned this week (peace to my homies on N.com!) is just an unrefined caster sugar. It is not widely available here so I used the American superfine sugar, which is the closest we have here to the very fine caster sugar. To the fluffed up butter and sugar, an egg is added, and then sifted flour (with baking powder) is folded in. Last come the chocolate chips. Tom suggests that he has had a hard time finding good chocolate chips in the U.K., but since I am making a very American type of cookie, I thought I'd add the household favorite (and cupboard stand-by) Toll House semi-sweet morsels.

Yo, can you see my reflection in the bowl?? I am wearing lavender! Far out!

To get big m-f'er cookies, you would need to measure out about a tablespoon of batter. I didn't want my cookies to be that huge so I measured a teaspoon of batter, and Tom said it would take half the time to bake and come out to roughly 20 cookies. Well I got 20 cookies, but it took way longer to bake than Tom indicated, even with my nuclear reactor oven.

For teaspoon size, Tom said 5 minutes! I think it was closer to 15 minutes for me, even with a bit of squidiginess in the center. I let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a little bit, and then I transferred them to the cooling rack.

Hey, this evening was two for two!!! Awesome! Man, I should start out every night with the feeling that I can't be arsed! Look what masterpieces I can come up with when I'm being a lazy bugger!