Another Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe & a Journey For The Future

So, here I am, I've been having a hard time writing and baking. Have you ever had a time when you are totally up to doing something but it always ends up badly or you don't even have a chance to start? (This has been one of my longest questions ever!) Well, I'm in this time. Now I've been more into writing my personal feelings about what is going on in the other side of the screen; trying to combine that with food sounds easier than it is, at least for me.
It's been a while since I wrote my last post, and today I felt like I should finish this one that has been saved as draft for so long now, that I don't even remember what I was thinking when i started typing.

They're awesome in flavor

Well, in my Journey for the Future I've been looking for a place to live now that I'm leaving to college, actually it's harder than I thought. There are a couple months left for me to enjoy in my hometown, but it feels like time is running out, almost like water in my hands. I have a lot of things planned here, that I don't even know if I'll get to do half of them, so much pressure is on me right now with final exams in high school, all the paperwork that has to be done for college, housing, etc. But another thing that's been in my thoughts lately is finding the Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe that makes me go wild, the One! And it's not like I'm not going to bake when I'm gone, but the new tiny apartment kitchen and limited tools will make it very hard.

My goal for this summer vacation is to find THE recipe and bake a lot other things. I have a huge list of "What to bake next..." that I want most of the recipes there crossed by the time I'm in another city.

But let's get to the fun stuff, OK? The next Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe, that has been the one with the best flavor so far. This recipe is from David Lebovitz's Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes. One more time they were flat. What’s wrong with my karma?? I'm starting to think it may have been because either one of these things:

Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies (K1)

This is the second recipe for the cookies I've tried on the Cookie Quest!

These cookies were great in flavor, but after a day or so they were really hard, maybe it was something I did wrong, so if you want the recipe, it's after the jump! (:

Ingredients

• 220 g flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chip

Cookie Quest Part II

I'll tell you something about this Quest! As I've found that everyone has a differet opinion about how they like their Chocolate Chip Cookies the most, I decided to make every wednesday a different recipe. First one chewy and then one crunchy recipe. So I´ll put a name in brackets like (Chewy 1) for you to know what I´m talking about. Later for not saying (or writing) it all, I'll just use C for chewy an K for Crispy-Crunchy, each one with their number. This will also be helpful for the pictures and if you like any recipe you can email me or leave a comment (down there) with the name of the recipe you like and also the number so I know and I can answer as soon as I can.
So... let the battle review  BEGIN....
[DING DING DING... ]

CHEWY VS CRISPY

This has been a great battle, the first two recipes were really tasty, but there were some things that I disliked a bit.

1. CHEWY 1: They were in fact chewy, but while in the oven they fell flat, really flat. They were huge but thin and that's what I disliked of the first one. Also, they were a bit too sweet for me, and the reason for that is that I used milk chocolate chips, so there was nothing to balance the sweet+sweet flavor. My bet, I know, but as it was the beggining of the quest and I couldn't find any semi-sweet chocolate chips in this tiny city I decided to go forth with milk ones! I´ll never do taht again, unless I mix them with semi-sweet ones.
2. CRUNCHY 1: The flavor was waaaaaaay better than the first ones, great balance of sweetness, but there was something BAD. They came out of the oven and they looked GORGEOUS! really (you can see in the pictures) I tasted them like 5 minutes later and they were almos perfect, yeah, something was missing, something that I hope I'll find in the next recipes. But, anyway, after they cooled I stored them in a container and the next day, when I took them to my friends they were all hard, but really hard. I don´t know what happened, maybe next time I have to leave them less time in the oven! but we´ll try that later.

Cookie Quest Part I

Hello Cookie Monsters! This post is dedicated to chocolate chip cookies! The reason why it is called Cookie Quest is because I'm in one! I'm looking for the best choc chip cookie recipe!
Each week I will post a recipe that I've tried and what do I think about it, obviously with it's photographs and if you like you could try it and leave a comment. You know I appreciate what you think! So, I wanna know which cookies you like the most, chewy or crispy edges & chewy center or maybe just crunchy?
Personally I prefer crispier cookies! Maybe that's why I didn't love the first recipe I tried, the cookies were chewy and... well, I'll start with my review for this recipe.
This recipe tasted good! Nothing really amazing, and also they were chewy, and flat! I don't know what happened but when they entered the oven they were round, but as time passed they became flatter!! I didn't like so much that look, but anyway, the other persons who tasted them said they were great, well, some of them were good to me and told me that maybe they were a little bit sweet. Maybe it's that I'm so demanding when it comes to cookies+chocolate or any kind of thing I cook/bake!
So, tell me, do you have any favorite recipe? Which one is it? Would you like to share it with me?
Later in part II (of an indefinite number of parts) I'll post the recipe and some photos.
Hope you like and join me throughout this cookie quest!

Cookie hugs and choc chip kisses
V