chocolate chip cookies without the chocolate chips??

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does anyone else really like to make chocolate chip cookies… but then think they'd be better without the chocolate chips? i'm generally not a big chocolate person and can easily be overwhelmed by too much chocolate in these cookies (unless heated up and served w/vanilla ice cream… COMPLETELY different story).

what would you call such a cookie? other than something like chocolate chipless cookies. i don't know that i'd call them sugar cookies because of the brown sugar. would they be butter cookies? 

is there a better recipe for chocolate chipless cookies other than making chocolate chip cookies and omitting the chocolate chips?? 

anyone else similar to me put something else in these cookies instead of chocolate chips that they really like? peanut butter or butterscotch won't do it for me… maybe i might try toffee bits or caramel nubs. but i still think i prefer just the dough...

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The dough IS pretty darned good. It makes a nice cheesecake crust or the bottom of some kind of bar cookies...

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Yeah. I have an old recipe for a brown sugar cookie. It's pretty much the Toll House recipe without the chips. It's very tasty. You could put nuts in it.

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Cooks Illustrated has a great brown sugar cookie recipe.

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You could make a chipless batch and then divide that into a few bowls- try one with sliced almonds or whatever nut you like, one with toffee bits, etc. 

If you leave them plain with no mix ins you could finish the tops with a little raw sugar to add some texture

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I always bake a few chip-less ones for myself when making CCC. Oh and I eat a lot of the dough too before I add the chocolate chips. :)

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We make the Tollhouse recipe with half the chips and nuts -- more dough is the way to go.

Maybe add oatmeal or dates in place of the chocolate, and still keep the nuts.

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I make them with raisins instead

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Yes! I often make half my chocolate chip cookie batch without chips, because I just love the cookies plain.

My latest obsession is a brown butter chocolate chip cookie that is simply awesome plain, or with just some pecans.

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I don't like chocolate. Neither do my kids. I got a recipe once from a friend for cookies that I made for our local school bake sale and they were titled "The best chocolate chip cookies ever" - so I made them.
However, I made them without any chocolate chips and with 1/2 the sugar. Instead of the chips, I made them with 3/4 chopped walnuts and 1/4 rice krispies. They came out delicious and my kids loved them (so did their friends)

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Sure! We make them extra large and sandwich ice cream btwn two cookies and freeze.

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We love chocolate chip cookies(with out semi-sweet chocolate chips)with white chocolate chips and butterscotch chips. We call them Double Chippers:)

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Toffee bits sound delicious 
Nuts
Dried fruit
Crushed pretzels

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This is a great cookie base with an After Eight tucked inside, half a peppermint patty, or just plain. 

http://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/recipes/2009/12/01/starlight_mint_cookies.html

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Yep, I've seen them as brown sugar cookies too. :) I always use like 1/2-2/3 of the chocolate chips called for cuz I'm also not a gigantic chocolate person.

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I believe that they were originally called New England Butter Drop Do's.

I don't remember where I first read that, but here's an article that backs me up.

http://articles.courant.com/1995-11-01/features/9510310077_1_nestle-toll-house-cookie-popular-cookie-semi-sweet-chocolate

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IMO not a lot can beat an unchipped cookie sprinkled with coarse sea salt before baking. 

we've played around with so many mix-ins and a combination thereof including:

-all flavors of chips - white, semi, cinnamon, caramel, homemade "nutella chips"

-dried fruits - chopped dates (the pre-chopped sugar dusted ones), currants, dried cherries (great with nutella chips), chopped dried apples (good with caramel bits and sea salt), freeze dried corn (not the powder but the whole kernels)

-other randoms like marshmallow bits, graham cracker pieces, potato chips, pretzels, saltines, malted milk balls (white chocolate or semi or whatever you find that you like), candy corn (don't ask, we were using it up), licorice bits…

i don't know; maybe it's just me, but i think it's hard to beat the naked cookie. sometimes just the smallest quantity of additions give the best end product. one or two chips or whatever in each cookie allow the dough to cook around them, adding a certain je ne sais qua...

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I'm a chocoholic so no, you can't beat chocolate chip cookies but I do like the cookie dough with a sweet & savory pecan or walnut mix in it that incorporates dry mustard, cinnamon, cloves, garam masala, ginger, cayenne and sea salt

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Not much I can add---walnuts, raisins or other dried fruits, white choc---except that they can be baked in a Pyrex dish and cut into squares or rectangles.

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I much prefer my chocolate chip cookie recipe without any flavor chips. Substitute toasted pecan pieces instead.

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OMG, I'm so happy I found this! I've felt like a weirdo all this time, it's so awesome to find out I'm not the only one who feels this way!!!
I've wondered the same thing because I love the cookie part of chocolate chip cookies but not the chocolate so much.. 

I've recently been on a baking bonanza so here's a few things I've put into cookies (or seriously considered putting into cookies) that AREN'T chocolate or toffee, they may or may not taste good with Chocolate chip-free cookies:

Coconut
Pistachios
Walnuts
Macadamia nuts
Cashews
Caramel bits
White Chocolate
Cranberries
Red (usually cherry) chips
Cherries
Reeses pieces
Praline almonds (or other candied nuts)
"White" Raisins (green grape raisins)
Dried pineapple
Dried Mango
Dried papaya
Dried guava
Yogurt drops
Date bits
Candy bar bits (sturdier stuff like Heath bar, Butterfingers. Nougat based ones lie Snickers, 3 Musketeers and Milky way wouldn't likely make it and cookie based ones like Oreo and Twix would be a bit redundant..)
Mini Marshmallows (the tiny, hard kinds used in hot cocoa would probably survive the oven best, though regular ones would probably make a pretty good filled-cookie.)

I'm sure there are more, that's just what I've come up with.

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