I've had some requests for our "Gollum's Cookies" recipe, so here it is. We entered these cookies in a contest once (thus the "Gollum's Cookies" title; we were trying to set our cookies apart from the rest) but we didn't win. :( I don't think the judges even saw the recipe, as it turned out. Nevertheless, we think they deserved to win, because they're our favorite cookies, and they always seem to turn out great. Enjoy!
Gollum’s Precioussss Golden Chocolate Chip Cookies
(Do not feed to nasty hobbitses!)
2 C. sssugar
2 C. brown sugar
1 ⅓ C. sweeet cream butter, softened
1 ⅓ C. butter-flavored shortening, sssoftened
4 medium eggses
1 T. + 1 tsp. vanilla
2 T. sssour cream, yess
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking ssoda
7 ¼ C. flour
1 C. tasty semi-ssweet chocolate morselsss
1 C. milk chocolate toffee bitsses
We creams shortening and sugar until light and fluffy. Then we adds eggs, vanilla, and sour cream; we mixess well, we does. In small bowl, we sifts together salt, baking soda, and flour, then combines it with rest of dough. Is it tasty? Stir in chocolate chips and toffee bits, my preciousss. Form dough into juicy 1 ½-inch balls; place on ungreased cookie sheetses. That’s what we wants now; yes, we wants it! Cooks at 350° for 10 minutes, it does. Is it nice, my precious? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable? Then we takes it out of oven and letss it sit on pan for a few minutes. Then we eats it, my precious, we eats it, yesss.
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(Note: I've found that the best way to tell the amount of flour needed is just to add it little by little until the dough kind of pulls away and falls off the beaters or spoon. You pick up the beaters, and the dough sort of peels off in a hunk, with maybe a few moist crumbs left on. It shouldn't be sticky enough to stick to your fingers, but it should easily stick together into balls without having to be squeezed together.)
(And another note: This makes a VERY LARGE batch. We usually half the recipe unless we're taking them to neighbors or something.)
