Perfection is overvalued
I found the perfect cookie recipe at Annie's eats . I used Nattuchakkarai or the south Indian organic brown sugar and repeated her recipe with very little changes here. Result? Perfection! I dare say, even Annie might agree, nattuchakkarai takes her excellent recipe up a notch with its fudgy gooeyness. Also it has some chunkier bits amidst the powdery stuff and the chunky stuff hangs on to its shape stubbornly through mixing, even with a hand mixer and baking, finally giving up the ghost when you bite into the cookie. Delicious. And to top it all, I made it with chapathi flour (whole wheat) not maida. I used a combination of ghee (i had forgotten to switch off the gas when I was melting ghee for my son's breakfast and ended up browning it up a tad too much) and melted butter. The butter ghee mix was truly at room temperature and I did not have any issues with the dough some of the other commentators had talked about. I felt the size of the do...