Typically my rule is that the movie I review has to be a movie I haven't seen before. I've changed the rules so that I can do one throwback movie of the month. Last month it was Jaws, and now this month it will be Christmas Vacation.
I'm home in Michigan for the holidays, and I baked these cookies with my brother Ethan, my sister Caitlin, and her boyfriend Jake. They are all pretty stellar people.
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| Caitlin happily cutting chocolate |
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| Jake looking fly. |
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| Ethan looking weird. |
There has been a lot of buzz behind these chocolate chip cookies, so I feel like it's time to give them a try. The original recipe is found here. I know it may seem like a lot of chocolate, but somehow it works. We ended up having to use two different kinds (not the fancy discs like the article) because we didn't have enough of one kind. We also just used all purpose flour instead of a mixture of bread and cake. I hope that didn't affect the recipe too much.
Recipe: New York Times (kinda) Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
3 and 2/3 cups four minus 2 tbsp1 and 1/4 tsp baking powder
1 and 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 and 1/2 tsp coarse salt
2 and 1/2 sticks butter
1 and 1/4 cups light brown sugar
1 cup plus 2 tbsp granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 and 1/4 pounds semi-sweet chocolate (we used a combo of baker's and choco chips)
Mix the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl. Set aside. Cream the butter and sugars together in a mixer fitted with a flat paddle (I softened the butter up a bit in the microwave first). This will take about 5 minutes to be totally incorporated. Add both eggs and mix well. Do the same with the vanilla. Slowly add the dry ingredients until just combined. Fold the chocolate in with a spoon.
Cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 hours.
The next day, preheat the oven to 350. Spoon the cookies out on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 16 minutes or until golden brown. Enjoy!
Step-by-Step Instructions
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| Chop the chocolate into pieces if you got block chocolate like us. |
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| Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. |
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| Cream the butter and sugars together |
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| Add the eggs and vanilla and mix some more. |
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| Slowly add the dry to the wet ingredients. |
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| Remove the bowl from the mixer and scrape down the paddle. |
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| Add the chocolate chips and fold into the batter. |
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| It's going to be very chocolate heavy. Cover with plastic wrap and place in fridge for 24 hours. |
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| The next day, bake at 350 for about 16 minutes, or until golden brown. |
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| Put it in your mouth. |
10 things you didn't know about National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Assistant director Frank Capra III is the grandson of It's a Wonderful Life director of Frank Capra.
- Leaves can be seen on the trees of the family's house when it is supposed to be Christmas in Chicago.
- A minor earthquake took place when Uncle Louis and Aunt Bethany arrive at the house.
- Chevy Chase is seen wearing a black Chicago Bears cap
- When Clark is reading the People magazine with sappy hands, the woman on the cover is producer Maddy Simmons.
- Clark uses a mechanical stapler to fasten the lights to the house. The sounds you hear in the film is that of a stapler powered by an air compressor.
- Squirrels are actually very low in cholesterol
- The moon stays full from December 18th to the end.
- Clark says he has 25,000 lights on his house. These are the old-fashioned bulbs that draw 7 watts each; thus, Clark would be drawing 175,000 watts of power, or 175 kilowatt-hours continuous draw, far more than can be delivered to a single-family dwelling using the U.S. standard 120-volt electrical system. Therefore, Clark's main breaker would have instantly tripped the second he would have plugged in all the lights at once, not counting the lights on his Christmas tree and everything else electrical in the house.
- From the interior of the house, the attic ladder is shown as a slide-down, but from the attic it has a fold-out design.
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