Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe?

Question

There is this recipe from Emeril that i make. but everytime i make it is so watery. it tastes great, but the cookies always run into each other and don't look like cookies. they are very thin and are hard to get off the pan. i put vegetable oil (the spray can ones) but it still is very hard. i wait for the cookies to cool so that isn't the problem. i have provided the recipe below so that you can try it and see if yours end up like that. thank you for your effort.
Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe courtesy of Emeril Lagasse



Recipe Summary
Prep Time: 55 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Yield: 2 dozen cookies
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1/2 cup softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
5 tablespoons brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
3/4 cup flour
1/8 teaspoon baking soda
1 pinch salt
8 ounces semisweet chocolate, cut into small pieces
8 ounces toasted macadamia nuts, chopped
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1 scoop vanilla ice cream
1/4 cup chocolate sauce
Powdered sugar and cocoa powder

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place the butter, and both sugars in a mixer bowl, and cream until well mixed. Add the vanilla extract and egg. Mix well. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt. Add small amounts of the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and mix well. Fold in the chocolate pieces and nuts. Refrigerate dough for 1/2 hour. Spoon out 1/2 tablespoon portions on a parchment lined baking sheet, 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes, or until golden brown. Allow to cool. To make an ice cream sandwich: Use 1 scoop if ice cream between 2 cookies, drizzle with chocolate sauce and sprinkle with the mixture of powdered sugar and cocoa powder.

Answer 1

Try to make you dough balls smaller or place them a little further apart........another thing is that your oven may cook faster than Emril's so don't cook them quiet as long.

Answer 2

In all honesty, the best chocolate chip cookie recipe I've ever had is the one on the Tollhouse chips package. They even stayed soft and chewy for a week! Last time we put peanut M&M's in instead of the chips for Valentine's Day. The red, white and pink were really pretty in them.

Answer 3

I agree with shpicey about the flour. I've never made that specific recipe but I've made several different chocolate chip cookie recipes. (I think the Nestle Tollhouse cookie recipe is the best.) I use more flour than the Nestle recipe requires because I get flat cookies if I don't.

Answer 4

Um... thanks for the lousy recipe. Why don't you just use the one on the chocolate chip package?

Sarcasm aside, I looked at your recipe, and there isn't enough flour for the amount of liquid you would get from the egg & the butter when it melted. If you're really attached to this recipe, just experiment with increasing the flour. I would double it myself.

Answer 5

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Good luck and hope this helps.

Answer 6

try bettycrocker.com

Answer 7

ok