Chocolate Chip Cookies

This week, I've become a bit of a celebrity at school. I've always been a hot commodity amongst the kids due to my funny accent (my students have never actually heard me speak in French even when we're out and about in town and I see them with their parents) but, the minute that I brought in some chocolate chip cookies, I became a star. 

 

Chocolate chip cookies aren't a huge thing in France. With my students, I decided to do a week-long unit on the song "Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar." Using a cute ook that my boss had, we worked on some desert animal vocabulary for a couple of days and then read the book. We then sang the song and made our way around the room accusing each other. Eventually it got to me and I owned up to stealing the cookies but told them that I brought them back to share and everyone tried a cookie. These went over much better than my previous attempt of bringing some American cuisine into the classroom with some homemade pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving (only 7 out of 39 students liked it).

All week, my students were asking for the recipe so I ended up making a lesson on how to make chocolate chip cookies. I grabbed all of the ingredients from our kitchen and set off to enlighten the young minds in my class. The lesson went without a hitch except for one student laughing at me and my bowl (it has a hole in the bottom because of a popcorn incident in our apartment. I calmly explained to him that I wouldn't mix cookies in this bowl, it was just pretend.)

Right before we left for vacation, my roommate and I made a batch because we were bored. Brought some down south with me and have been sharing them with my cousins. Honestly, it's the little things like a chocolate chip cookie that brings a smile to someone's face that make it memorable and worthwhile!

Here is the recipe for my cookies that brought so many laughs this week. Enjoy!

 Ingredients
1 cup of butter (about 225 grams)
1 cup of white sugar
1 cup of brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons hot water
1/2 teaspoon salt
chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 fahrenheit (175 celcius)

Cream together the butter and the sugars. (melt the butter a little bit first or else it'll be a big mush ball. May or may not be speaking from experience...)
Beat in the 2 eggs.
Stir in the vanilla.
Dissolve the baking soda in the water and mix into the batter with the salt (if you forget and put it into the mixture without dissolving, not a huge deal...).
Stir in the flour (it helps putting it in a little at a time and stirring but, if you're like me and always dump it all in, it'll work too).
Add chocolate chips (didn't have enough so I cut up a dessert chocolate bar into chunks. Did the job).
The cookies are softer and keep their shape better if you refrigerate the dough overnight.

Cook for 10 minutes (I usually cook mine for 7-9 because I like mine undercooked).
Enjoy!