Chocolate Chunk Cookies (with Muffin option)

This cookie mix was a year round favorite with my past customers (story here) which always amazed me since the recipe is very simple.

Looking back I think it was just the fact that they could make 'homemade' cookies that really tasted homemade and not like the came from a package...BUT...they didn't have to start from scratch gathering all of the ingredients.

So I'm sharing the recipe for the mix and I encourage you to stock your pantry with a few 'homemade' cookie mixes of your own!

INGREDIENTS

1 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chunks (or you can use chocolate chips, but the chunks really make a difference!)

{the above ingredients can be bagged as a dry mix and kept in the pantry for quick use in the future}

3/8 cup brown sugar
3/8 cup granulated sugar
{the 2 sugars can be bagged in a smaller bag and then placed in the larger mix bag mentioned above.  You now have a cookie mix to store on the pantry shelf and make as directed below when you  need want them!}
1 egg
1 stick butter, softened

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 and prepare a cookie sheet with nonstick spray.  
2. Using an electric mixer, beat the 2 sugars with the egg and butter until a creamy mixture forms. 
3. Add the remaining ingredients and stir until a thick dough forms.
4. Drop by 1 tablespoon portions onto the prepared baking sheet, spacing the cookies about 1 inch apart.  
5. Bake 9-11 minutes.  Cookies will just begin to turn a light, golden brown but still be soft when done.  

Tami's Tip:
Chocolate Chunk Cookie Muffins are a big hit in our home.  Here is how we make them...

Start by spraying your mini muffin tin with a flour based cooking spray.  Then drop 1 or 2 tablespoon sized balls of dough into each tin. (2 tablespoon sized gives you a muffin top, 1 tablespoon does not)

Place in the oven and bake at the temperature directed on your recipe, only know that you are going to bake them a bit longer than suggested (you'll have to test it the first time and then make a note for the next time you want to make the same recipe)

When the muffins cookies are done, they will look like this if they are 1 tablespoon sized:

Or this if they are 2 tablespoon sized

As you can see, the larger portioned dough balls bake up to form a muffin top.  It's like a cookie on the top and a muffin on the bottom!  Note:  because of the overflowing result, you'll want to be sure you spray ALL of the tin, not just the insides of the muffin holders. 

Let them cool a little bit before you dump them out of the tins. 

NOTE:  the larger cookie muffins do have a higher 'error' rate because the tops do have a tendency to pull away from the muffin occassionally.  You may consider that a nuisance, but I consider it a perk!  The detached tops look like cookies, so I just put them on the plate...and then EAT the damaged muffin bottom!  

Amazing Oatmeal Cookies

Sugar Cookies

Find more dessert recipes to make homemade mixes HERE...look for the Desserts eCookbook.  

Like what you read?   Subscribe to Around the Table with Tami by Email 

After you click above and put your email in the form, don't forget to click the verification link that will be sent to your inbox

...otherwise I can't save you a seat at the table!

Let’s Eat!

Copyright© 2013 Around the Table with Tami

CLICK HERE to find places I may be pulling up a chair and linking this post.  

These are tables I recommend you visit when you have time!

Like it?  Love it?  Made it?  Made it better?

Just click the comment link below to 

say hello, leave us a note or 

just encourage me with a smile!