This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe is One Big Break-Apart Chipper from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking with Dorie – basically a giant chocolate chip cookie that you break up and serve so people can nibble as much or little as they like!
This cookie dough is a keeper – whether you bake it as individual cookies or as one big cookie, this is buttery and crunchy (with a bit of give!) – with some spices – I didn’t use cardamon and cinnamon (no thank you in a chocolate chip cookie, sorry Dorie) and a hint of coffee – this is a grown-up cookie. Well, the fact that it’s not a chewy chocolate chip cookie makes it feel more like it’s for grownups than kids, in any case!
My only issue with this recipe it the yield. I made 1/2 the recipe which produced nearly a full (European-sized) tray of cookie dough when rolled out – my oval was roughly 9 x 11 inches. The full recipe is meant to be rolled out to 3mm thickness and 12 x 15-inches (30 x 38cm) and I can’t imagine that it would be this small?
Any other bakers confirm that this makes a GIANT cookie and way more than 8 serves? We’ve both had a few pieces and I think that our 1/2 recipe will definitely make 8 serves.
In any case, I’ll for sure make this again – and I’ll use the “big cookie” method again too!
Get the recipe for One Big Break-Apart Chipper on p 152 of Baking with Dorie or here.
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I can confirm that the big cookie was enough for more than 8 people! I left the cardamon out of mine as well, but I did put in the cinnamon because I wanted to see how it tasted with it. It was a yummy easy cookie to make. Yours looks great and like enough for more than 8 people!
Yes, this was like a bark more than a cookie – and I loved it like that.
“Sort” of along the lines of a ginger snap…but, well, without the ginger LOL.
Appreciated that while it was sweet, it wasn’t overly sweet like so many of those “bark-type” things usually are, help together by a kilo of melted sugar…
Definite repeat. (Says the one who simply enjoyed, and did not actually do any any of work…) 🙂
I used the cinnamon and the cardamom and we loved it! I think because of my nuts and chocolate I wasn’t able to roll it out to “bark” level, more like a thin cookie bar…which was about the size of my 15 in cookie sheet 👍..definitely more than 8 servings.
Yeah, I am not the biggest cinnamon fan and I just don’t like cardamom in cookies very much (sorry Dorie!). Mine was NOT “bark-like” – it was the correct thickness per the recipe (about the thickness of a chocolate chip because that’s how it rolls! I think Neil is referring to the way it’s served?
It was giant! I cut the full cookie into 16 serves.
My son would have preferred your version without all those spices. It did make a big cookie and served plenty. We snacked off of it all week and I shared at work. Nice to roll one big cookie.
i like the “big cookie” method, too, and a third of a recipe got me about a quarter-sheets worth. still a lot for two people, but it kept nicely in the cookie tin, so we nibbled on it for a few days and i shared some with the gym bros.