One Chocolate Chip Cookie

It's like built-in portion control.

This is a recipe for not a dozen, not a half dozen, not even 2 dozen, but for one, sole cookie.

I got the idea to create a recipe for just one cookie when my friend Olivia said she wished that you could mix ingredients together for just one cookie, instead of always having to make a full plate of them.

At the time I suggester to her that you could simply make all the dough and just freeze it to take out only what you need at a time, but this suggestion didn't satisfy her and so I decided to take on the challenge.

What I figured was that the main issue was the egg, because using a teaspoon of egg wouldn't work well for a recipe. However, cookies have eggs for a reason, so I needed an ingredient that would help coagulate the batter just like an egg would. For this, I turned to a recipe from All Recipes for yogurt chocolate chip cookies and scaled it down a ton and tweaked it a bit.

Recipe:

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons packed brown sugar

1 teaspoon sugar

2 teaspoons butter

2 teaspoons plain yogurt

2 drops vanilla extract

2 tablespoons and 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour

1/8 teaspoon baking soda

Dash of salt

Dash of cinnamon

2 teaspoons semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F and grease a cookie sheet.

In a small bowl, cream together the brown sugar, white sugar, and then stir in the yogurt and vanilla. Add in the flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon until incorporated, and then mix in chocolate chips.

Form the dough into a ball and place on the greased cookie sheet.

Bake for 9 to 11 minutes in the preheated oven, until the edges begin to brown. Cool for a minute on the cookie sheet before removing to wire racks to finish cooling.

The one, lonely cookie.

What's really good about this recipe (other than the fact it tastes good) is that if you love dough, you can just eat the uncooked cookie without worrying about salmonella from eggs. 


If you like this recipe and would like to make more than one of these, here is the recipe:

½ cup packed brown sugar

¼ cup sugar

½ cup butter

½ cup plain yogurt

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 cups flour

½ teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon cinnamon

1 ¾ cups semisweet chocolate chips