Baked Sunday Mornings: Cream Cheese Chocolate Snacking Cookies

I've been waiting for this moment, all my life--okay, maybe not "all my life"--but I've been waiting to find the perfect chocolate, chocolate chip cookie for a flippin' long time. Let's momentarily step out of We're All Perfect Blogland, because we are about to switch to confessions of a [former] teenaged preprepared cookie dough fiend. Don't worry, I've been long-since cured.

Yes, we should have known better. Yes, my mother is a pastry chef. Yet, there is no comparison for the joy of watching Mean Girls with your adolescent brother, while eating per-packedged cookie dough with a spoon (while drinking margaritas? Sorry, Mom) 

Once upon a time in a Tina Fey as an adorable, yet hopeless, high school math teacher era we fell in love with gory chocolate, chocolate chip cookies. We found a dough--laden with unpronounceable ingredients, weird preservatives, and [when unbaked] potential salmonellas--that made the best chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, well, ever.  Until this week.  I can pronounce every ingredient in these cookies, and, both their batter and their finished product are perfect for soft chocolate cookie lover like myself. 

By the way, look forward to seeing these cookies again soon...  They've made their way into homemade ice cream sandwiches, and I can't wait to share those with you!