Original Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Series Summary

No one bakes cookies like grandma, no one. Whether the extra ingredient is love or butter is debatable; yet somehow, those time tested recipes always deliver the richest of tastes and the fondest of memories. Sweets like cookies, brownies, fudge, and cakes remind us of simpler times, when all the cares of life could be swept away by the aroma of freshly baked pastries on a timeless afternoon.

In this free baking video series, learn to throw caution to the wind once again. Forget your diet and drown your sorrows in the sweet, chewy warmth of freshly baked original tollhouse chocolate chip cookies. Our expert grandma will walk you through her secret recipe step-by-step, including an ingredient list and baking tips. The end result is delicious. Enjoy!

This series is an Equilibrio Films production.

Video Transcript

"I'm Helen McMahon for Expert Village. Today we're going to make old original toll house cookies. This is the old original recipe that came from Pennsylvania when they started the turnpike. First thing we need to do is set the oven to 375, this is a convection oven, so the heating is very even and that will get that started. I'm going to give you the recipe so you can write this down and then you'll know what the ingredients are as we talk about them. You need: 2 sticks of butter or margarine and it's best to have them at room temperature so they'll be easier to beat and 3/4 of a cup of white sugar, 3/4 of a cup of brown sugar. I use the dark brown and be sure it's very fresh. You'll need 2 eggs, 1 tsp of salt, 1 tsp of baking soda, 1 tsp of vanilla, 2 1/4 cups of enriched unbleached flour and 1 cup of walnuts or you can use pecans and they should be chopped and a bag of chocolate chips, that's a 12 oz bag of any brand of chocolate chips. GR Deli Chocolate is particularly good and the oven as I mentioned should be set to 375 before you begin."