SACRILEGE! 
I like a balance. Or I’d just eat a handful of chips.
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Are you a Levain fan? For the rest of my family, they’re perfect cookies. For me I’d like half as much chips and twice as much cookie part.
I’ve heard of them but hadn’t had them - and after looking them up, I think I’m glad I don’t live closer to Boston proper. LOL
I DO like a semi-chewy, semi-crispy ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookie. In great moderation, as I could hoover multiple down in one sitting, if forced.
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I tried the Levain chocolate chip cookie on the UWS around 2005.
I am adding a photo from the Levain site for reference, for HOs who are not familiar with it.
The original Levain cookie with chocolate chips and walnuts.
That Levain style of cookie is quite popular in Toronto right now. I am glad I tried it.
My favourite type of chocolate chip cookie is a flatter, crispy and chewy chocolate chip cookie, as well as this pecan caramel chocolate chip cookie from Bakery Pompette in Toronto.
I really liked Mrs Field’s cookies in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Those were amazing for a minute, and then they kind of got greasy at some point. Or maybe they always were, and I just noticed… Either way, I definitely had my fair share and then some of Mrs Field’s calories. BTW her story is really great too.
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hate them so much. Waaaaaay to sweet and dense. Ick.
I have her cookbook if anyone wants the recipe. Although I guess it’s also floating around on the Internet.
haha
I am such a Canadian and not a New Yorker in my reply about Levain cookies.
Which bakeries currently bake a good chocolate chip cookie in NYC?
I can’t remember the last time I bought a chocolate chip cookie from a bakery in the city. I would rather bake them. I buy Tate’s in the grocery store in a pinch because I grew up going to Kathleen’s Cookies, which was the shop where they originated.
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I should add that most of the famous ones over the years-- like City Bakery never wowed me. David’s Cookies was good when they started.
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Tate’s are very good for a packaged cookie, for sure!
balls.
I was just thinking about this thread the other day and I can’t recall ever really having a bad chocolate chip cookie.
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Oh, I have.
Sometimes, there’s a cheap shortening taste, with some cookies people have baked for the Pittsburgh cookie tables I have visited at various Pittsburgh weddings.
My friend’s family makes really cakey cookies that are pretty bad.
Chocolate chip cookies can look enticing and taste like a 3/10.
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Come to the Boston area sometime and I’ll introduce you to a few! Most of the Italian bakeries around here, for some reason, start with some sort of very dry and crumbly cookie dough (I assume originally created for some other purpose entirely). And then they flatten it out and press chips into the top and – voila! – there’s your “chocolate chip cookie.” Seeing chips floating on the surface is a telltale sign that you’re about to have a very disappointing cookie experience.
I think that they just made a biscotti, and called it a chocolate chip cookie to sell to 'Mericans.
that all-purpose crumbly italian bakery cookie dough drives me mad. it’s so bad.
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Hmm.
Culture Espresso. I was in a taste-off and it was the all-around fave.
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