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Hi Reader!

If you're here just for the recipes, scroll down to see all of my chocolate chip cookies with links! If you'd like to hear a bit about my recipe testing thoughts and the journey of a humble pound cake, keep reading!

I have never hidden my love for a chocolate chip cookie. I would go so far as to say, it's my baking muse. And I can never seem to find enough ways to get creative and make something that seems new and fresh in this self-contained treat.

When The Cookie Book came out someone commented in a review that some of the recipes in the book were the same as on the blog with just some minor tweaks. 💀

This comment killed me and frankly, it just wasn't true. My editor only allowed three recipes to come over directly from the blog.

But it leads to a more interesting conversation that I want to share and that is that a few tweaks in recipe does, in fact, create an entirely new recipe!

For the past several weeks I have been working on a pound cake recipe specifically for the blog... (Jump below the recipe photos to finish reading about how pound cake and chocolate chip cookies collide...👇🏼

Happy Wednesday!

PS Some of the older recipes don't have weight measurements...comment on the posts that you'd like them and I will add asap for you! xx
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​Chocolate Chip Cookies
with Dried Cherries​

This one is a little crispier around the edges than my usual cookies. The sweet chewy pop of dried cherries is just fabulous in these. I love to get my dried cherries from Trader Joe's as that's the best price/quality combo I've found around!

​Double Chocolate Chip Cookies​

Also known as, The Cookie I Made The Most Last Year!!! If you have a chocolate craving, THIS IS YOUR COOKIE!!

​Giant Olive Oil
Chocolate Chip Cookies​

The first chocolate chip cookie EVER on DisplacedHousewife! This one is all oil, no butter, and Gavin's favorite of the two on the site.

​The Other Salted Olive Oil
Chocolate Chip Cookies​

A half-olive oil and half-butter hybrid that has all of the delicious flavor of butter and the bonkers delicious texture of olive oil. I just love this cookie so much. She's a beauty, too.

​Really Fabulous Brown Butter Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies​

So much flavor! So much texture! Yes, they're gluten free! I created this cookie especially for Solvang Bakery year's ago and I love it so much.

​Aloha Chocolate Chip Cookies​

From the early food blog days before I even knew what SEO was and I would name cookies after whatever I felt like naming cookies. Other names I had in mind for these cookies: Stoner Cookies, Wake and Bake Cookies, Jeff Spicoli Cookies, Kauai Cookies...

These cookies have Frosted Flakes cereal, shredded coconut, chocolate chips and macadamia nuts. A very old recipe that's worth revising!

​Toasted Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies​

This one uses a trio of flours (oat flour, bread flour and all-purpose flour) for a really flavorful cookie! For the oat flour you can grind your own (or purchase) and bread flour can, as always, be replaced with all-purpose flour.

​The Best Everyday
Chocolate Chip Cookies​

One bowl, ready in 30 minutes, no-chill, loaded with flavor and this is basically my mid-week go-to chocolate chip cookie. She delivers everything.

​The Best Chewy Oatmeal
Chocolate Chip Cookies​

Soft, chewy, hearty and flavorful! Another one-bowl, no-chill cookie dough recipe to satisfy your cravings stat.

​Chewy Mega Vanilla
Chocolate Chip Cookies​

The cookies my daughter, Stella, has made the most! This is a small batch cookie (the dough freezes like a dream) and can be made start-to-finish in under 30 minutes!

​Grab All of The Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes Here!​

This post would have been wicked long if I would have included all of them! Hop over to the blog to view the rest and leave any recipe questions, comments or thoughts and I will get back to you asap. Have fun! xoxo

How Pound Cake & Chocolate Chip Cookies Collide

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I started with the pound cake recipe from The Cake Book, but was looking for something different. For this recipe I was looking for a lot of height...more than the usual pound cake.

I wanted a beautiful, dramatic crack down the middle to occur naturally, without any of the fuss of placing melted butter there (typically very unnecessary and more for Instagram theatrics).

I wanted the crumb to be dense, but light, and rich and buttery.

I wanted the exterior to not be excessively brown.

I wanted MOISTURE. I wanted one bowl for crying out loud!

I love the pound cake in The Cake Book and think of it as very much a classic, traditional pound cake. It's foolproof, delicious, fabulous.

But to add something new to the online world, and have you spend money on ingredients, I want it to be something special, unique.

All of this is to say...you won't be getting it this week.

If you were to look at my recipe testing notes (I'm currently on test seven), they range from:

"This one baked perfectly. The sides are soft, which I like. The crumb feels a little more textured and not fluffy. Now I don’t even know what pound cake is supposed to taste like…texture wise. Kinda bummed this didn’t rise as much as I would like..."

to...

"This one needed more flour…the middle was underbaked."

to...

"This tastes great! Needs more rise..."

The ingredients I am mostly playing around with are: sugar, sour cream and flour. Some tests have the addition of milk (or not) and one had an extra egg yolk (my least favorite test).

Sometimes the adjustments in ingredients are measured in tablespoons. They may seem like small edits, but they yield big changes.

And this, my friends, is where pound cake meets chocolate chip cookies. Because all of these cookies have roughly the same ingredients (sans add-ins), but yield wildly different textures, flavors and experiences.

Next time a weekend rolls around and you haven't seen a new recipe from me, it's typically because I have fallen down a recipe-testing rabbit hole and I've decided it's just not quite good enough for your time.

New Recipe This Weekend!

So this weekend, instead of a really fabulous pound cake recipe, I'm sharing with you an equally fabulous *NEW* chocolate chip cookie recipe (see photo above!)! And yes, the answer is yes, we need another chocolate chip cookie recipe.

This one is a brown butter cookie on steroids! I have been reading for several years now about how Milk Powder can add oomph to your brown butter chocolate chip cookies and indeed it does. The verdict is in.

Since we've just baked with Malted Milk Powder (for our Guinness Cake with Malted Chocolate Buttercream), I used that. And it worked, beautifully. Why get extra ingredients if we don't have to?!

I prefer chopped chocolate to chips in this one, but you move forward accordingly.

The start to this year has been bumpy, to say the least! Computer broke? Check. Back went out? Yep (I'm blaming my foot recovery for that one). Camera broke? Lord help us. Taxes, a cold...but we persevere because that's what we do. And we're stronger than we think we are.

Instagram Update

I am taking a bit of a sabbatical from Instagram for various reasons and I'm finding it LOVELY. Thank you for your notes inquiring where I'm at...I'm here. Writing newsletters and laboring over pound cake and still wanting to chat about things as we did in the DMs.

Please please please feel free to use the recipe comment section on DisplacedHousewife as our new venue for that. Questions about recipes? Life? Anything pertaining to that moment in time? Yep, that all works! I check for comments daily, so you're bound to get a quicker response time than you will on Instagram where I'm only checking in every few weeks.

In July I'll reevaluate my Instagram relationship and we'll go from there. As always, you'll be the first to know about it all.

I'm glad you're here and I look forward to hearing how you're doing.

Enjoy these cookies, enjoy your Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (made with Milk Powder!) and eventually, I will get the unabashedly fabulous pound cake recipe to you and I can't wait for you to bake it.

What I'm Currently Into...

Stocking up on this sunscreen (I get Sunrise in the 2.5 fl. oz) that I wear everyday. I mix it with these bronze drops (these last forever!) and that's my face. That's the glow. Try it.

​The White Lotus Podcast...because discussing character development in shows like they're real people is my kink.

​This Mel Robbins Podcast and this 7-Day Reset Checklist (you *may* need to sign up...but I think this link should work!).

​2020 Highliner by Hitching Post is the Pinot I'm loving.

My son came home from college last week and I made him Chicken Schwarma with this pita recipe, my favorite pizza dough (we decided this was the best meal last week!) bowls of berries for dessert (in season!!), frozen peanut butter cookie dough (this dough freezes great!) and lots of lemon, honey and smashed ginger hot water for this cold I'm battling.

​My New Yorker subscription. Being off of Instagram has left me with an abundance of time and I am obsessed with it. Setting aside time to read every day has felt like pure luxury.

This face mask that feels like a facial followed by my favorite LED face mask (look for discount codes online if you're interested...this price is too high!)...I love this mask so much!

Being out in the sun. Period.

Cosmic Crisp Apples (so crisp! so...juicy?) and making sourdough bread (see pic below, I'm so proud of that crumb!).

Sending you a heap of love and wishing all of you the very best week possible! xoxo

PS I haven't done a long newsletter in a while and this felt great! I've missed you! I love you! You're awesome.🫶🏻

PPS I have to have two more eye surgeries in May 😳...I'm sharing because my eyesight is shit right now...no other way to describe it. So please forgive errors and typos! Come June I will be able to see much better (yippee!).

​ "Following up on her acclaimed debut, The Cookie Book, writer, photographer, and recipe developer Rebecca Firth tackles cake in her new book. You may have trouble picking which recipe to start with: Chocolate Stout Cake with Champagne Buttercream or a tart, sticky Glazed Tangerine Donut Cake?” ― Epicurious, 25 New Baking Books for Cozy Fall Treats THE CAKE BOOK

​ "Writer, photographer and queen of cookies, Rebecca Firth teases my sweet tooth and I am not mad about it. Love following her and her tempting creations and can't wait to see what she comes up with next." ―Tiffani Thiessen, actress and author of Pull Up a Chair ​ ― Food & Wine, Best Baking Cookbooks to Own Right Now THE COOKIE BOOK