http://www.chocolatefunk.com/chocolate/chocolate-chip/making-chocolate-chip/making-chocolate-chip-cookies/ Making chocolate chip cookies means making memories for your family. Not only do most kids enjoy making chocolate chip cookies, but everyone enjoys eating them--especially warm, with a cold glass of milk! en-us Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:32:15 EST Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:32:15 EST Weblog Editor 2.0 Okay, we've all heard it before. You have to be careful about eating raw cookie dough when you're making chocolate chip cookies because of the eggs. But you probably grew up eating raw cookie dough when your mom was making chocolate chip cookies and somehow you survived, right? You probably still do it today, in fact. And why not? Eating the cookie dough is one of the best things about making chocolate chip cookies! The Many Joys of Making Chocolate Chip Cookies Why is it that making chocolate chip cookies is an experience that's unlike making any other kind of cookie? Is it the fun you have as a kid putting all the ingredients in the bowl for your mom? Or is it sneaking a chocolate chip or two before they're added to the bowl? Or is it just the fact that chocolate chip cookie dough seems to taste just a little bit better than any other cookie dough? Maybe it's the fact that when they are still warm from the oven, they're better with a tall glass of cold milk than any other kind of cookie. That's not to say that making other kinds of cookies isn't fun, but with sugar cookies, you get flour absolutely everywhere when you're rolling the dough out. (It is fun to use the cookie cutters though.) Peanut butter cookies are sort of fun too because of dipping the tines of a fork in sugar then making criss-crosses on the balls of dough, but nothing compares to the experience of making chocolate chip cookies. One group of women who work together enjoy it so much that every year at Christmas, they meet at someone's house and they all bake different versions of chocolate chip cookies. Some make "moster cookies" which are just big oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chunks and M&Ms on top, some are peanut butter chocolate chip cookies, some are made in mini-muffin tins with the dough lining each tin and a Hershey's kiss in the middle and some are just plain chocolate chip cookies. Then they would trade cookies and share cookies. Most of them went home with a variety of cookies. But this was more than a cookie exchange--they were getting together to do something they all loved: baking. And baking is even better when you do it with friends and family. Thu, 03 Nov 2005 11:32:15 EST