Uneasy Cornmeal Chocolate Chunk Cookie

Maybe. Sharing the recipe for my cornmeal chocolate chunk cookie might serve as a welcome distraction from endless covid testing lines and intensifying anxiety.

If you’re isolating in your home, lapsing back into day drinking and sourdough making, try:

170 g sugar
220 g light brown sugar
5 g salt
188 g butter
2 eggs
1 yolk
8 g vanilla
210 g ap flour
55 g cornmeal
22 g spelt flour
5 g bs
250 g good quality chopped dark chocolate.

Melt the butter.
You must now wait for it to cool so fling yourself, meanwhile, onto your nearest lounge-object and try to parse whether you are dreading a return to some form of lockdown or are subliminally thrilled to leave behind the hyper productivity/socializing you’ve fallen into.
Mix together the sugars, melted butter, and salt until the batter is ribboning.
Add the eggs and vanilla.
Toss in the dry ingredients.
Accidentally let the mixer start on high speed until you are caked in flour.
Yelp as if you’ve been wounded (you’re a whore for attention when you bake) and when someone finally notices and tries to aid you, be sure to make them feel that somehow it's their fault.
Now that you’ve alienated your only ally, return to fold in the chocolate chunks and anything else you might like to add (citrus, dried fruit, gloom).
Form cookies and push down so the centers are flat.
Sprinkle with flaky salt.
Bake in the oven at 350 for 9-10.

You know these are, unequivocally, the platonic ideal of a cookie, crisp edges, incredibly thin, chewy middle, but take it extremely personally when someone you care for says they prefer them with milk chocolate. These are the conditions of your suffering.

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