How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies

hey kids welcome to another edition of cooking with dad i'm dad and we're cooking well actually not yet but we're gonna today i'm gonna show you how to bake chocolate chip cookies uh my first cookie that i actually ever made was peanut butter cookies uh so we'll do that at some point but i'm gonna show you today how to make chocolate chip cookies you know when i made biscuits before a lot of my followers in the uk um made sure to point out those aren't biscuits those are scones and then so there's some confusion there i guess with what they call what do they they call cookies are our biscuits or our cookies or their biscuits something like that and i think actually um my understanding is a cookie in the uk can be called a cookie if it's a chocolate chip cookie and we're making chocolate chip cookies today so i guess i'm hoping that passes so anyway i do have a dad joke for you before we get started um and it's actually from my book uh so it's actually the first um first joke that joke in my in my book uh so the brownie told the vanilla wafer he was crazy but the vanilla i'm blowing this here let me let me start over so i do have a dad joke for you so the brownie told the vanilla wafer he was crazy i'm not crazy the wafer said i'm just a little kooky cookie ah so anyway let's get started okay so i've got this all laid out for you um first we're gonna do first thing we're gonna do though and i'll put the recipe in the uh in the description of my video too first thing we're gonna do though is preheat the oven to 375. so i'm gonna go ahead and do that okay so so i got this all laid out for you like i said just to kind of speed things along so i've got two and a quarter cups flour in here okay and then i have a teaspoon of baking soda and a half a teaspoon of salt in here okay um i'm showing you off my fancy pottery here it's actually a local company um that i picked up at a craft fair last summer actually two summers ago we bought some of the stuff actually i think three summers ago because then we had covet and then last year i sought them out and found all that and i bought pretty much everything they have it's a it's a local company called cascadia stoneware and i bought all their designs out i love these so anyway i got a pretty much a complete set here uh so anyway so we have the flour we have the salt and a cup of butter so each stick of butter is a half a cup right so just get two and then um it says softened uh because it just makes it easier to work with and here's something i learned the hard way when i was younger and i went to make cookies i just went ahead and you know warmed up the butter and the butter was hot and then when i mixed it in and then when i added my chocolate chips my chocolate chips melted so don't do that learn from learn from my mistakes so um anyway so it's good to just set it out depends on how warm it is in your area um but i microwaved this for uh 30 seconds and then i just let it set here for a while so it's all nice and cool but it is softened okay um then we need three quarters cup of sugar so i have that here okay and then i have three quarters cup of brown sugar okay and i have an egg i'm gonna get that out of the fridge so you need one egg and you need one teaspoon of vanilla okay we got that here and then you'll need two cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips i just have the white chocolate i don't didn't happen to have any um uh brown chocolate so i'm just gonna use this white and it's just good too it's still chocolate um and then i like nuts and they say to use coarsely chopped nuts i like to have bigger chunk nuts in my in my cookies so so that's what we're going to do there so anyway i'll start adding all this stuff together i just wanted to show you the layout here because when i move the camera you're not gonna be able to see me and i'll just kind of we'll get through this pretty quick okay like i've talked about before you usually want to combine your dry ingredients together to make sure that they get good and mixed because you know if you added your baking soda um kind of with the wet ingredients it might not get mixed properly so it's good to add this together we're going to add this with the flour this is your salt and your baking soda okay so we're going to add that and kind of sprinkle it around okay and then we'll mix that up all nice and good okay okay and then i'm actually gonna mix the sugar uh the two sugars over in this bowl okay and you'll see why in a second okay and we're gonna we're gonna add the butter to this okay so let's do this add the butter actually you know what i'm gonna mix that first okay so i'm gonna go ahead and mix this together right just make sure that that baking soda and salt gets mixed in good with the flour okay so that looks pretty good now we're gonna mix these two together i don't know this is critical but you don't have to make sure these are perfect because they're both sugar okay now we're gonna add this butter okay let's see if i can get it to come out of there i have to get a rubber spatula to get it to get the rest of it out there but let me go ahead and mix the rest of this up okay and you can use a blender with this too an electric mixer you know um you don't have to though i've always just used a fork because you know you dirty up more stuff the more stuff you got to clean but a mixer would work probably better it'll be quicker okay so we're good here do this for about a minute probably takes you about a minute okay got the rest of the butter out of there there we go and i don't know that it really matters too much which one you add next i'm going to go ahead and add my egg okay and you could if you wanted to you could mix that before you added it but i'm not gonna okay now we're just adding that egg and then we'll add that teaspoon of vanilla okay oh a little bit spilled it over the top that's okay i don't mind a little extra vanilla okay so we're good there make sure this is mixed good okay now we can add our flour okay and this you just gotta be careful so it doesn't slosh over the sides okay and then then one of those two two cups of the which is basically a bag of chocolate chips it's basically two cups come in a bag in a normal sized bag but i laid them out there for you so you could see that it was two cups and this is how i mix too you have a fork right see how you have a fork you can't even really see it but i just kind of push the the dough through it okay like that and that's how you mix it so you want to have a you want to make sure you have a fork that has a good solid handle on it otherwise you're going to be bending that thing right okay just about got it okay and it wants you want it to be kind of sticky like this you don't want it to be runny right because when you go to put this on the on the cookie sheet you'll be able to just they drop you drop uh spoonfuls is how they say it i've seen different people do different things use a small ice cream scoop or something like that i just use a spoon so there we go now we can add this okay you got that and then like i said i like to have my nuts see how they're uh they're not finely chopped right and these are just walnuts okay there you go oh my oven's ready to go and i'm just about ready to go here not sure how many cookies this will actually make but i'll let you know at the end once we're once we're all done i'm guessing if i had to guess they always say it seems like most recipes are three dozen cookies um maybe i make mine a little too big i always end up with not quite three dozen so we'll see how these turn out okay looking good okay let me move all this stuff out of the way and we'll put them on a cookie sheet okay so here's how i do this and you can do this many different ways it doesn't matter so i usually try to get about that much and then you just put it down it doesn't have to be anything fancy just like that okay looks like we're gonna probably put i think about a dozen per sheet something like that you could even just you know grab a small amount like that they don't have to be perfect because when they come out of the oven they'll they kind of make themselves into their own circle when they bake and and squash down right so they don't have to be perfect as you're doing this don't have to be perfect anyway right we've talked about that before they're perfect because you made them okay so that's all there is to it like i said you can use a spoon if you want but you got the rough idea of how big you want them right and you just got to space them out to make sure that they don't run into each other right and if you make them too big i mean maybe maybe that's okay too it doesn't honestly really matter so there we go so that's that one and what i'll do is i'll go ahead and prepare the second one so that when this is done um then i can just pull this one out and then stick in the next one and you want to put it in there for eight to ten minutes so i'm gonna go ahead and throw this in and timer i'm gonna put it at nine okay and i'm gonna fill this one up you don't need to watch me do that okay so we have about 30 seconds left uh i ended up um adding another minute because it didn't look like it was quite cooked still learning the you know each oven's a little bit different it's at eight to ten minutes looks like mine's ten minutes for this so we've got about 15 seconds left as you can see i got the next ones left you can hear my dogs tap tapping around as usual so we'll pull this out and we'll put the new the uncooked ones in okay ah looking good okay go ahead and put these in okay timer off timer back on 10 minutes start so as you can see they kind of flattened out but it's okay that they you know you don't want circles complete circles you want a little bit of chunks and because of the nuts it does that you know you don't have to add nuts like we said uh but i i love walnuts pecans uh you know the macadamia nuts are good although they're expensive uh so anyway see this one's kind of a little bit wonky but that's okay you know it's still a cookie and people will be digging that cookie so um so we want to let this cool off for for a little bit um you know you could you know get a spatula and slide it under there and then um put it on a cooling rack if you wanted to or even on a plate um and then the thing is though so this this is hot right this pan is still hot so if you start to put those new cookies on there they're going to want to start to to melt a little bit not a big deal it's just that's just what it what's going to start happening um so i usually just wait for it to to get pretty close because to make uh another row of these is only takes doesn't take a minute so um i'll just let this cool until we get close here and then i'll put these on a plate and then we'll finish off the last little bit of our dough [Music] well look at that this recipe i just went ahead and filled up this last uh batch and first batch was 12. one in the oven's 12 and this is 12. it actually came out got one minute left on my uh the ones that are bacon but that's amazing i think that's a first for me where i actually did them right where they came out this one might be a little i mean i've fudged a little bit this one's a little bit small but really i mean you almost always come out with uh 24 and then six you know so it hardly ever comes out where it says three dozen then you actually get pretty much three dozen cookies so pretty cool okay so the last batch just came out we got three dozen cookies already ate a couple but um here you go so i hope that was helpful for you um you know just trying to break things down baby steps kind of uh makes simplifies things for you right so that you can do it yourself and if you stick with me you're going to run out of excuses for why you can't do things so and that's the goal right so anyway i hope this was helpful for you thanks for watching and god bless you