By Svara Jayasinghe
Last weekend, I decided to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch, using the Magnolia Table Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe by Joanna Gaines. The recipe is fairly simple, but I do have a few tips that can help. If you are using a hand-held electric mixer instead of a standing mixer, when you are mixing the flour mixture with the mixture from step 3, make sure you put small amounts of the flour mixture at a time, so flour doesn’t fly everywhere. Another tip is, when the dough is getting thicker, you might want to switch from using a hand mixer, to using a wooden spoon or spatula. This is because when you add more ingredients and the dough gets thicker, it will easily get stuck in the beaters of the mixer, so using a spoon or spatula would be much easier. Do the same when you add in the chocolate chips. If your dough is a little too thick, and not close to being light and fluffy, try adding another egg, or even adding a little bit more butter to the dough.
For me, the cookies turned out amazingly well. They were gooey, chocolate-y, a little bit crunchy on the edges, but were extremely soft towards, and in the middle of the cookie. I had a bunch of fun making these cookies, and I’m 100 percent going to make these cookies again. The recipe is straightforward and easy, and I definitely recommend making these cookies. Here is the link to the recipe:
https://www.thekitchn.com/joanna-gaines-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe-257520