I first got the recipe from an advertisement page in one of my cooking magazines and I tried the recipe. The batter is almost like a brownie batter and the cookie almost has the texture of a brownie. Please don’t be afraid to form the dough into a log. This is really easy and it’s key to the perfect cookie. Just take two pieces of wax paper (for 2 logs). Pour 1/2 of the batter width wise onto the paper. Wrap the back side of the paper over the batter and start rolling inside the wax paper. It will be shaped like a rolling pin. Move your hands up and down the wax paper as you roll to form the log and twist the ends. Repeat for second log. Place them in a 13 X 9 dish and put in the refrigerator.

In about 30 minutes place the logs on the counter and roll them so they will be circular. Forget about them until you get ready to cook them. Cut them into 1 1/2 inch slices and bake. Here’s the second hint, I cook them at exaclty 13 minutes (just until they are done, and the center is set) There will be a little shine on the outside of the cookie. These are perfect.

One mistake to avoid: Believe it or not, these will not taste the same if you don’t use the Ghirardellie 60% Cacao bittersweet chocolate chips and the Ghirardellie semi-sweet chocolate chips. I made the mistake once of substiting Hershey’s semi-sweek chocoate chips for the Ghirardelli semi-sweet chocolate chips and you can really notice a difference. They are not as good. Many of my friends noticed too.

As far as I’m concerned, these are the very best chocolate chip cookie!

The cookies look wonderful, probably better than if they HAD been rolled. I thought I’d share a trick with you when gloppy dough calls for rolling. I take some WAX paper, a long piece, spoon the dough all along it and then twist the ends. That pretty much does it, you can refrigerate or freeze and you haven’t done any more hard work than scooping them out individually.

Great web page, I’ll have to visit more often.