We all know by now not to trust a thing you see, hear or read on the internet.

It’s also no secret that I’m a Marketer’s dream.  I am super brand loyal and very susceptible to advertising.  So when someone’s internet blog says, “this is the perfect chocolate chip cookie”, I say, “let’s try it!” 

Well, I tried it…and it’s not that great.

I like the Vanilla Bean Blog.  I’ve baked her cookies before- and I’ve bought her cookbook, 100 Cookies.  So I trust her.  So I was super excited when I got the email this week saying she had created the “perfect” chocolate chip cookie, I was keen to try it. 

Everybody loves chocolate chip cookies.  I mean, everyone loves cookies but everyone loves chocolate chip cookies.

Last week’s Kitchen Sink Cookies were a hit- one of the top 10 cookies I’ve made apparently.  But they can be divisive.  Anything outside of the standard, comforting chocolate chip cookies can cause… feelings.  So no matter how crazy a recipe I make each week, I like to also make one comforting, plain-sh, normal cookie.  

And because everyone loves chocolate chip cookies, everyone also has a favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe.  There are SO many out there.  Even the 100 Cookies cookbook has like 5 different recipes for them.  So what was meant to make these so good?  

Not sure.  But they weren’t great.  I ran out of vanilla and substituted a teaspoon of bourbon, I increased the recipe from 20 cookies to 32 so maybe it didn’t quite scale well.  Whatever it was they are/were disappointing.  Not an outright fail but not great.

Luckily, I always make at least two types.  The second batch is Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies- which were excellent.  They look good too.   They are dark, velvety, rich and coffee adjacent.  They’re gorgeous. I love them. I think they will be a hit.

The chocolate chip ones… not so much- but we’ll see. People are always surprising. But one thing I know, we can’t trust everything we see on the internet.