Slab Cookies

I married a cookie person, which is only unfortunate because I'm a cake person and I don't like making cookies, which is why (can you use "which" twice in a sentence?) I'm always looking for a way to make cookies without really making them. This may be just the thing. Thank you, Pioneer Woman. For the step-by-step instructions, straight from the source, go to Pioneer Woman Cooks.

Slab Cookies

or Spreads or the Lazy Man's Chocolate Chip Cookie or CCC Deconstructed

Ingredients:

1 cup Brown Sugar
1 cup Butter
1 whole Egg
2 cups Flour
½ teaspoons Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla
1 cup Chocolate Chips

1 cup toasted Walnuts or Pecans, chopped finely (optional)

Preparation Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Mix together brown sugar and butter. Add egg and mix together. Add flour, salt, and vanilla, and mix together well.Spread dough onto cookie sheet to a thickness of 1/4 to 1/2-inch.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until slightly brown. At this point, pull out of the oven and sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over the top. Return to oven for 1 minute. Remove and spread melted chips over the top. Sprinkle with nuts or MnMs. Cut into squares.

Crispy Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

I am not a cookie person--give me cake, cake, cake!!!--but I married a cookie person. Not only that, but his mother was a fabulous, top-notch cookie baker. Crap. Almost ten years of trying and not quite getting it right, and finally, Marko liked these. So, these will be my/his cookies from now on; that is, when we're not eating cake.

Crispy Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

(adapted from http://www.smittenkitchen.com/2009/03/crispy-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies)

2 cups all-purpose flour, minus 2 Tbl.

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted

1 cup packed brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 Tbl. vanilla

1 egg

1 egg yolk

2 cups mixed semi-sweet/milk chocolate chips

1 cup toasted pecans, optional but not if you're baking for a Purves

1. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
2. Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended.
3. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended.
4. Stir in the chocolate chips and pecans by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup at a time (for giant cookies) or a tablespoon at a time (for smaller cookies) onto the prepared cookie sheets. Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.
5. Bake larger cookies for 15 to 17 minutes, or 10 to 12 minutes for smaller ones (check your cookies before they’re done; depending on your scoop size, your baking time will vary) in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.