Campus Cookie Cravings: Satisfying Your Sweet Tooth on a Student Budget

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Making cookies is a heartwarming experience that many people enjoy for the baking and the sweets. These steps are to make a dozen cookies to appeal to the sweet tooth of your inner child while compensating for the tight budget of a college student.

Baking Necessities

Ingredients ($24.01):

• ½ cup granulated sugar (Granulated Sugar $3.39)
• ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed (Brown Sugar $2.49)
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt (Kosher Salt $2.29)
• ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, melted (salted butter $3.79)
• 1 large egg (Eggs $1.99)
• 1 teaspoon  vanilla extract (Vanilla Extract $3.99)
• 1¼ cups all-purpose flour (All-Purpose Flour $2.59)
• ½ teaspoon baking soda (Baking Soda $0.99)
• 4 ounces milk or semi-sweet chocolate chunks (Baking Chocolate $2.49)

Equipment:

• Oven
• Baking/cookie sheet (Baking Sheet)
• Measuring cups/spoon (Measuring cups)
• Timer
• Oven mitts (Oven Mitts)
• 2 large bowls (Bowls)
• 1 Rubber Spatula (Spatula)

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Baking Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350º F

Step 2

Soften the butter by microwaving it in 10-second intervals until you see it start to slightly melt.

Place the softened butter into a large mixing bowl

Step 4

To the butter, add your ½ cup of white sugar and ¼ cup of brown sugar and mix until the ingredients are evenly distributed using the rubber spatula

Step 5

Crack your egg on a flat surface and add the egg to the butter and sugar, making sure no shell gets into the mixture, then discard the shell and mix the egg into the butter and sugar until the ingredients are evenly distributed

Step 6

Add 1 tsp of vanilla extract to this bowl and mix again

Step 7

Add ¾ cups of chocolate chips to this bowl and mix until evenly distributed (this will be known as your wet mixture from here forward)

Step 8

In your empty bowl, add in all your dry ingredients (1 ½ cup flour, ½ tsp baking soda, ¼ tsp salt) and mix gently until all ingredients are evenly distributed

• When measuring the flour, scoop it into your measuring cup with the standard eating spoon until the measuring cup is slightly overfilled. Then, use the flat side of another utensil (ie spatula, handle of the spoon) to scrape the excess off, thus “leveling” the measuring cup.

Step 9

From this dry mixture, add about ⅓ of it to the wet mixture at a time, mixing between additions until you see no dry clumps remaining each time. Make sure to scrape the bottom of the bowl to get any dry mixture that may have slipped into the bottom

Step 10

Once you have added in all of the dry mix as previously described, shape the dough into ~12 golf ball-sized balls and place these onto your baking sheet

Is Parchment Paper Necessary?

• If you have a non-stick sheet, no preparation is needed.
• If your sheet is not non-stick, line it with oven-safe parchment paper.

Step 13

Once the cookies have finished baking, take the baking sheet out of the oven using the oven mitts and set it on a cooling rack or an off-stove top to cool for ~20 minutes.

Step 14

Enjoy your freshly baked cookies!