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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie

Funny story of the day. Eight years ago, my mom asked if I could help her bake something for her company’s potluck. I noticed that our peach tree in the front yard was overflowing with peaches, so I offered to make peach cobbler. Also, just as a disclaimer…I suck at baking. And cooking. Basically everything that involves being in a kitchen. I have so many more fail stories to share it’s quite embarrassing. ANYWAY. So. I looked up some recipe from Google on how to make peach cobbler. Followed the steps all the way through, and 1.5 hours later I had a delicious looking peach cobbler cooling down on the kitchen table.

My mom came by and was pleasantly surprised! She said I could cut out a slice for myself. I told her I didn’t want to ruin it with a missing slice but she insisted. So I cut out a piece for myself, took a bite, and legit almost spit that thing right back out. Actually, I’m pretty sure I did. Something was VERY wrong.
I panicked and looked back at the recipe. Guess what happened….wait for it…I swapped the sugar with the salt. FACE PALM. I put in a whole freaking CUP of salt. No wonder. I was pouring salt out of that Morton’s container going “wtf why do we need so much salt this doesn’t seem normal.” So hey, at least I noticed. Sort of. But I just thought it was cause we used so many SWEET peaches that you needed to balance out all that sweetness. I put in a single tablespoon of sugar. Oh my goodness I was so embarrassed. SO happy my mom made me take a slice for myself. Probably would have gotten my mom fired (jk…but really). She brought cookies from Safeway instead, so it was all good.
Now speaking of cookies…..

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I’ve been craving cookies A LOT lately. Ever since I discovered Antoine’s in San Mateo. I briefly talked about this cookie shop in my August Foodgrams post, but I decided I would dedicate a whole post to it because everyone needs to give it a try! Seriously. The BEST cookie I’ve had in my entire life. I don’t know how they do it. Their chocolate chip cookie is to die for. Super simple, nothing fancy, but man the texture is perfect, the cookies are warm, and there’s a perfect layer of molten chocolate going across the middle of the cookie. Like a cookie sandwich but the cookie is…not any thicker. It’s really incredible! Level of sweetness is perfect, and there’s a hint of salt (nothing disastrous like my peach cobbler failure) that actually brings out the flavor really well. And they manage to get that slight crisp on the outside of the cookie while the inside is still chewy.
This place is 40 minutes away from my house. And since discovering it last month, I’ve gone 4 times. Get a dozen if you go. I always try to get by with a half-dozen but they’re usually gone by the next morning. So so good. They have some other flavors that are pretty popular and some of them sell out by mid/late afternoon. I’ve tried a couple other flavors…but I always go back to the good ‘ol chocolate chip. Favorite cookie of all time. Thank you, Antoine!
*Featured picture credit: Antoine’s Cookie Shop
XOXO,
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  1. I still have yet to go there and it takes half of your time to drive there from my place. I’ll try it soon because I do love a good chocolate chip cookie!

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