Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

I found brown sugar! But it's not like I was seriously searching for it.  I felt like it was a necessary kitchen ingredient, until we didn't have it, and I realized that I didn't use it that much.  It's pretty strong though, like, I can taste the molasses.  Maybe it's more like dark brown sugar?  I don't know, but it's not like the Domino light brown sugar that I used to have in my pantry.

Okay, I wrote this post before I actually researched it.  I thought I found brown sugar because it was brown and I one of the many German words on the back was "melasse" (molasses).  It's whole cane sugar.

Whole cane sugar is an unrefined sugar places that from the juice of the sugar cane by filteringis obtained, thickening, drying and grinding. Depending on the clarification of the final product is gray to bright brown. Whole cane sugar has a characteristic taste of its own and is composed of 95% sucrose and other sugars .  The natural taste is described caramel-like, but also licorice-like. (Wikipedia) 

The main issue was chocolate chip cookies.  I started making a new version of chocolate chunk cookies and we LOVE them.  Seriously, I don't have any self control when it comes to these cookies and a glass of milk.

It's derived from the Original Nestle Tollhouse recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies with all white sugar and half the amount of butter.  Thanks to Meredith, I started halving the butter which we definitely prefer.  And chocolate chunks because there are no chocolate chips here.  The white sugar happened because we didn't have brown sugar.  Apparently other people have found it to be pretty good, too, after google searching it.

I need to stop making cookies on a weekly basis!  [side note: in the USA, probably 5 out of 7 days a week, we would eat ice cream after dinner-just a little in a mug-and we have yet to find reasonably priced good ice cream here.  This is why I'm making cookies so often...we have some sweet teeth in our house.  Our favorites were Turkey Hill All Natural Vanilla in Blacksburg and Blue Bunny All Natural Vanilla in Oregon.  With a little chocolate syrup.  Which also doesn't exist here.]

Favorite Chocolate Chunk Cookies
2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
100 g chocolate bar-average size, chopped (45% cacoa)
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 large eggs

Preheat oven 375 degrees F.  Mix flour, soda, salt.  In a separate bowl, beat butter, sugar, vanilla until creamy.  Add eggs.  Mix dry ingredients with wet ingredients.  Fold in chocolate.  Drop by tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheet.  Bake 9-11 minutes.