allrecipes.com's best chocolate chip cookie

These are seriously amazing cookies, and I think I agree that they are the best.
I discovered them in a baking phase maybe 4 years ago and was in complete agreement.
I'm posting a link to the original recipe, along with how I do it differently.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/10813/best-chocolate-chip-cookies/


Preheat oven to 350


you need:
cooking trays

ingredients are:

1 cup softened butter- I use olive oil and I use half a cup
1 cup white sugar- I use half a cup
1 cup packed brown sugar- I use half a cup

With the fat and sugars in recipes I tend to cut them in half and replace them with unsweetened applesauce. I have found that this is a rougly perfect ration to substitute and make changes with.

2 eggs

2 tea spoons vanilla extract

3 cups flour

1 tea spoon baking soda

2 teaspoons hot water

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips - I was making these and only had semi-sweet chocolate chip mini-morsels, so I used them and I used the entire bag without measuring. Actually really liked it!

1 cup chopped walnuts (I say this is optional. I'll try them out and put an update of how much I like the in here. I'm not a huge nut fan, but I've been changing my mind on them recently).

Follow the recipe, Cream together the sugars and olive oil, plus the applesauce.
Beat the eggs in one at a time. Stir in the vanilla. Dissolve  the baking soda in the hot water, then add with the salt. Stir in the flour (this will take a bit of time and be a bit challenging. Stir in the chocolate chips and optional walnuts.

The recipe says to drop by large spoonfuls on ungreased pans. I have done that and they are amazing.
I however recently bought a cookie dough scoop, so I used that. And I plopped them down on parchment paper.

Bake for 10 minutes.

I really love how they came out.

 

They are soft and fluffy, yet firm. And al the mini-morsels fit so well. I believe the applesauce helped them keep their form from the scoop. I have made chocolate cookies with that same scoop and witout applesauce, they expanded out rathre than up.

Here's what they look like when I only add a couple tablepoons of apple sauce rather than half a cup.

They came out delicious and amazing, just not quite the same.