I think I mentioned before that I love trying different chocolate chip cookie recipes. This one here may be my favorite recipe……well, my 2nd favorite. It has the look that I like, it’s buttery, crispy on the edges and chewy on the inside. It is everything I like in a chocolate chip cookie. I found this recipe on the Food Channel awhile back. I changed it up just a wee bit. If you like CCC’s, you will love this.  Trust me.
Enjoy!

Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie

1 stick of butter not too soft
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 granulated sugar
1 large egg
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons all purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips (semi sweet or milk or bittersweet)

With the mixer on load speed, cream together butter and sugars till smooth but not overly mixed. Add the egg and vanilla. STIR in the dry ingredients gently…Don’t go crazy. Stir just until combined. Mix in the chocolate chips. Chill dough for 20-30 minutes. Heat oven to 350.
Scoop cookies into 1″ balls and set 2 inches apart on a sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake 12-15 minutes, rotating pan once. My oven is electric and I bake these for 14 minutes. let them cool on the pan. You may not see those wonderful crackles at first, but as they cool, the cracks and crannies will appear. Delicious with a glass of milk or with a scoop of ice cream on top.

Those of you who follow me, know by now that Fridays are known as cupcake Friday in my office. Sometimes I do switch it up and do something other than cupcakes. Tomorrow is one of those days. It’s going to be Pineapple Peach right side up cake. Instead of putting all that yummy goo on the bottom of the pan and then flipping it over hoping that all the goo and the fruit stay together and still look pretty, I put the yummy goo on top of the cake batter and then bake. When it is done, I sprinkle more brown sugar goo all over the top of it and stick it under the broiler just till it starts to melt. On this particular one you see pictured, I added even more decadence and melted some brown sugar and butter together, mixed a little peach juice in it,  and drizzled it on! Hey, why not?!

Pineapple Peach Right Side up Cake

For the cake I use my coffee cake recipe:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
2 1/2 cups flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1  cup milk

3 fresh ripe peaches or 1 medium size can peaches (drained)
1 medium size can pineapple tidbits or crushed (drained)

For Gooey topping, mix together:
1  1/2 sticks of soft butter
3 cups brown sugar
after mixing, divide in half.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. For the cake, mix together butter, sugar and egg.  Alternately add the dry ingredients and the milk.  Spread the batter into a 9×13 baking dish. Scatter the peach and pineapple pieces all over the top of the batter. Sprinkle half of the Gooey topping mixture all over the fruit. Bake for 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick poked in the middle comes out with a few crumbs  on it. Sprinkle with the other half of the Gooey topping mixture  and place under the broiler  just until  the sugar  STARTS to melt. Remove from oven.
Optional: After removing from oven, sprinkle some additional peaches and maraschino cherries on cake. Melt 1 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup butter together and drizzle over the cake. serve warm or at room temperature.

I have never met a person who didn’t like Snickerdoodles. Some people like them crispy (me), some folks like them chewy (me). Either way, it will always be a favorite cookie. I have been making them for years. In her Japanese accent, my mother used to ask me “you make a me the sneeka-doo-doo?” For the longest time when she was little, my daughter thought that is what they were called!! I don’t claim to make THE best Sneekadoodoo. All recipes for them are pretty much the same. But I know several people who do claim to make the best. Hooray for you!! All I know is that it is a fun cookie to make and they are so very yummy. Most recipes call for both shortening and butter. Mine does. But I also love them with just butter. It makes them a bit less snickerdoodle-ish, but delicious!
Hope you make some soon….

Snickerdoodles

1  1/4 c sugar
1/2 c shortening
1/2 c butter
2   eggs
2   3/4 c flour
2  tsp cream of tartar
1  tsp baking soda
1/4  tsp salt

Coating

2  tblsp sugar
2  tsp cinnamon

heat oven to 400. mix together the sugar, shortening, butter and eggs. Stir in the dry ingredients. Chill the dough for 30 minutes at least. Roll into round balls and roll them in the sugar/cinnamon mixture. place on an ungreased cookie sheet, 2″ apart. bake for about 8-10 minutes until set. Remove from cookie sheet immediately. Eat many!!