This past winter I found the Jacques Torres recipe on a blog and started playing with it. What I've ended up with is a combination of a CCC recipe called Addictive Chocolate Chip Cookies from Baking Bites blog, the Jacque Torres recipe, and my own changes. The most important change I made was to use KA white whole wheat flour. The Addictive CCC recipe uses instant oatmeal -- that and the white whole wheat flour and the 1 lb. plus of good chocolate makes for a wonderful cookie. I have to admit, when I'm making CCCs for home, I use chocolate chips but when I really want to wow someone and I have the funds, I go the extra step and use a quality chocolate -- usually Scharffen Berger or Callebaut mainly because I can find them easily. High humidity seems to kill them though so for me, these are winter cookies.

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