Official Duke Toll House Cookies

[dukepsy1963]

Duke Archives just sent me the "classic" Duke Dining Halls recipe for the Official Duke Toll House Cookies.....just in time for the NCAA. Eat 'em and urge the team on!!!

Here it is:

Ingredients:

1 cup butter
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 white sugar
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp.salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 cup chopped nuts
2 packages semi-sweet chocolate morsels
1 teaspoon of vanilla

Procedure:

1. Let butter stand at room temp until softened. Combine butter with sugars in a round bottomed bowl and work with a wooden spoon until creamy. Add the eggs (well-beaten) to the sugar and butter.

2. Sift flour with salt.

3. Dissolve baking soda in hot water and add alternately with flour to the sugar and butter mixture.

4. Add nuts, chocolate morsels, and vanilla and mix until evenly distributed

5. Drop on greased cookie sheet by tablespoonfuls for a 3" cookie. Yields 6 dozen cookies.

6. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes, or until done.

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Enjoy them during the games! Let me know how they worked out for you!

BTW. They also sent another official recipe that I will be sharing with you shortly. ... the Hermit cookie one.


Go Duke!!!!

[DukieInKansas]

Good Job! I know what I will be doing this week.

[pamtar]

Since their officially Duke it means they're good for me right?! ;)

[CathyCA]

Thank you!

These were my favorite Friday treat at Duke!

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Good Job! I know what I will be doing this week.

Are you going to make enough for everyone? Shipping address will be sent under separate cover!

[Windsor]

oh happy day!!!!

Thank you thank you thank you!

Classic Duke cookies in time for the tournament. Perfect.

[DukieInKansas]

Are you going to make enough for everyone? Shipping address will be sent under separate cover!

I was thinking about it - but not sure if I have enough time to bake for all. :D
Sticking with tradition - I'll be making them Thursday night to have them Friday.

[Windsor]

I just made these (the last batch out of the oven is still warm)

It is very very close to the dining hall version (whenever you cut down a recipe from institutional quantities for home use something is lost)

After the first sheet came out of the oven I tweaked a little bit...dropping a tablespoon size gives a normal size cookie. Since we all know that 3 cookies = meal I wanted mine bigger. I added a touch more floor, doubled the size of the dough per cookie rolled it in a ball in my hand (hence the more floor) and then flattened it my hand on the cookie sheet. I had to drop the temp in the oven about 25 degrees and kick the convection on and the result was a lightly browned Pits sized genuine Duke chocolate chip cookie. In an oven without convection or 'speed bake' I'd drop the temp by 50 degrees and adjust cooking time accordingly - 375 will leave you with burnt edges and raw middles.

(Edit: if has just occurred to me that the slight difference in taste may be due to a faulty memory or the fact that I use real vanilla and they probably used the imitation stuff that most people have)

I apologize the tradtionalist that I could not wait until Friday to eat them.
In fact, there may be none left by Friday....