Chelsea Morgan

If there is anything that's sure to please a room full of actors, it's free food. Anything will do, but you get extra points for baked goods. I've found that baking for my fellow actors is a great way to make friends in a new show, and a great way to put on lots of unnecessary weight. Golden Boy is now officially over (and was an amazing experience - thanks to all involved!) but I thought I'd share these treats with you anyway. Make some and bring them to all your starving actor friends. 

I'm a bit of a bakeaholic, and chocolate chip cookies are my ABSOLUTE favorite. Over cake, over cupcakes, over any other cookie, over brownies, over anything.  And I've been experimenting with various recipes for a long time. My favorite for a while was the Betty Crocker packages that you add egg and butter to, but I'd been longing for my own from-scratch recipe. These are a bit unusual for a cookie in that the butter is melted, not soft when you mix the dough. That coupled with a few tasty substitutions make this one of my favorite sweet-yet-salty snacks. Or meals, depending on how starving your actor is. 

You'll need:

3 mixing bowls

Measuring cups/Spoons

Cookie sheets

Parchment paper

Electric mixer

Pyrex container to melt butter

Spatula

2 c. flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

3/4 c. SALTED butter, melted (Use salted. I promise you will not be disappointed.)

1 c. brown sugar, packed

1/2 c. white sugar

1 egg

1 egg yolk

1 Tbl. vanilla extract

AS MANY CHOCOLATE CHIPS AS YOU WANT

 My Original Hand-Written Recipe

Go ahead and preheat your oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. 

To begin your cookie dough, melt the butter either over the stove in a small saucepan or in the microwave with a paper towel on top. Let it cool slightly once it has been fully melted. Next, whisk together your dry ingredients in one of the bowls (the flour, baking soda, and salt). Separate one egg and one egg yolk into another another bowl, set aside. 

Combine the brown and white sugar together in your largest bowl. I'm lazy, so I'll add the vanilla during this step as well. VERY GENTLY, add the melted butter you just left lying around to the sugar, and mix on low with your electric mixer. Pour as you mix. 

Now in an alternating fashion, add the dry ingredients mixture and the eggs. Once all the dry and wet ingredients are combined, remove the electric mixer from the equation. Using your spatula, mix in the chocolate chips until they are fully immersed in the buttery goodness that is your cookie dough. 

Eat several clumps of cookie dough. 

Place parchment paper on the cookie sheets. Force it down. It is in a rolled up mess and you will have to spend several minutes making sure it stays flat. Oh, wait, you're not me? Ok, then simply turn it upside down so it flattens naturally. Whatever. Show off.

Now you're ready to spoon the dough onto your cookie sheets, but here's the kicker: for extra big jumbo cookies, I use a little less than a quarter cup per cookie, and I fit about 6 to a sheet. Pop those suckers in the over for (I kid you not) 16-20 minutes, remove, and eat!

If you like your cookies a little cakey, try adding more flour. If you want a little more chewiness, try letting the butter cool to an almost-solid state before you mix it in. I personally love both dark and milk chocolate chips, but you can do anything! These cookies are my favorite, hands-down, and I hope you enjoy gobbling them up as much as I do. 

Now if you'll excuse me, there is one hungry actor that I need to feed...