MSB had a football viewing party on Saturday and I was all geared up to bake the blueberry cobbler for my Bittman Challenge…except I didn’t have blueberries. I also could not find blueberries for less than $3.49/pint, so I decided to just buy white beans for Bittman’s White Bean Puree and some chocolate chips to add to beer bread (made out of MSB’s home brew!).

Anyway, I got home from work at a decent hour on Friday evening and looked at the recipe for White Bean Puree. I needed two cans of beans and only had one. Thus, failed cobbler and puree.

I was still in the baking mood and couldn’t make the bread until the next day, so I decided to use the chocolate chips in a cookie recipe on my to-try list: King Arthur Flour’s Chocolate Chip Cookies. KAF guarantees that these will be good, after all.

These cookies intrigued me with their addition of vinegar (I used cider) and their use of both butter and shortening (I pretended mine was trans-fat free). I wish I had the optional almond extract, but I did not. The chocolate chips were Hershey’s Special Dark because I thought they would taste good in beer bread.

The cookies looked really weird when they came out of the oven–very flat and possibly too brown. Some of them broke during transfer to my baking rack, which is my fault because the directions clearly say to allow them to cool on the sheet first. I was on the phone with MSB at the time and said that I might be making last minute cookies at his house the next day instead.

I decided to taste one of the broken cookies to see if I could serve them. Then I had to test two or three more. I concluded that they were delicious and would be served at the party if I didn’t eat them all first.

The texture is very different from the thick and chewy cookies that I usually bake. These are thin and crispy around the edges, but somehow still soft in the center at the same time. It’s a pleasing consistency and the entire batch was consumed at the party. Beer bread was not consumed–smoke billowed from MSB’s oven while I was preheating it. Apparently there was an olive oil spill. I guess one out of four attempted recipes for the party isn’t bad when delicious cookies are involved.

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