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Radu - Chef Extraordinaire

So today to take my mind off of some stuff I decided to do something that I am very, very good at. I decided to make chocolate chip cookies! Not only did I make chocolate chip cookies, I documented this great moment in history so all of you can see my impeccable chocolate chip cookie making technique.

The first step is fairly obvious, I needed to acquire cookie dough. Luckily, we had two packs of it in the fridge. Being me, I didn’t use just one of these packs of cookie dough. Nope, I used both because the more the merrier. We all love calories, right?

Now, I had the cookie dough and was preparing to make the cookies. How could this possibly get any better? Simple, the greatest tennis player of all time; the Swiss magician, Roger Federer stepped out onto the court to play Simon Gruel. I now had something entertaining to watch while making the cookies. (The one in black is Federer.)

Back to the cookies. I started cutting the cookie dough into pieces. I had to make an executive decision, small cookies or large ones. Honestly, this wasn’t much of a decision, bigger is always better.

Unfortunately, my decision also had some consequences. I could only fit 8 cookies on each try and I only had two trays at my disposal. Consequently, I was forced to leave 3/4 of a cookie dough roll out on the counter while the other cookies were in the oven.

I preheated the oven to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and then put the cookies in for 13 minutes and 21 seconds. As you can see, they started looking really tasty while in the oven.

Finally, my timer went off and it was time to take the cookies out of the oven. Sadly, the timer went off right as I was taking my popcorn out of the microwave so this batch of cookies stayed in 2 minutes longer than the others. The difference is noticeable, I am not pleased.

Don’t those just look great? Now it was time to cut up the remaining cookie dough. This was done with absolute precision. As you can see, I am very talented when it comes to cutting up cookie dough.

I repeated the prior steps, set the oven to 300 Fahrenheit, put them in for 13 minutes and 21 seconds (this time I made sure that I took them out right as the timer went off!).

Once again, it was time to take the cookies out of the oven. By this point I was becoming very impatient, all I wanted to do was eat these cookies. But no, I couldn’t. I had to find some sort of plate that would allow for all the cookies to coexist in complete happiness. It wasn’t easy, but I found the perfect plates for them.

...And that is my guide to making the worlds best Chocolate Chip Cookies.

If anyone can tell me exactly how many cookies I made, I’ll give you a prize. If you’re lucky, it may even be one of my world famous chocolate chip cookies.