Rose’s Chocolate Chip Cookies

March 10, 2015

Does anyone remember Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies when they were hard to find and exotic? They were bite size, crunchy cookies that for me had just the right amount of everything. Gosh I loved Famous Amos when I was a kid.

Instructions

MAKING THE COOKIE DOUGH

After browning and cooling the butter.

The milk solids that eventually went back into the cookie dough.

Toasting the nuts

Roughly breaking up the nuts with my hands.

Making the cookie dough, I refrigerated it overnight.

Cookie dough without the chips or the nuts.

ROLL THE COOKIE DOUGH INTO BALLS

Now that I’m back on the Weight Watchers wagon (deep breath), I made these cookies half the size Rose suggests, so in the end I made (42) 1” cookies (4 WW points for each tiny cookie!!!) (very deep breath). I weighed out 15 grams per cookie—about the size of a Canadian Toonie (and a Famous Amos).

Preparing to bake the chocolate chip cookies.

BAKING THE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

They baked in about 8 minutes.
Tasting them I had be strict with myself.

Rose’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, The Finer Cookie.

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