Alton Brown's "The Puffy" | Beantown Baker

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Alton Brown’s “The Puffy”

As you all know, I love Alton Brown. I’ve made a few of his recipes recently including his overnight cinnamon rolls and his famous chewy chocolate chip cookie. He did a great episode of Good Eats where he created three very different versions of chocolate chip cookie by making slight variations of the Nestle Tollhouse recipe.

To say I really enjoyed “The Chewy” is an understatement. It is delicious. I can’t rave about it enough. I decided to try out another recipe from the episode “The Puffy”.

I didn’t have any butter flavored shortening, so I ended up using 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening. Other than that, I followed the recipe exactly. These cookies were very puffy when they came out of the oven, but they deflated quite a bit as they cooled. The cake flour gives these cookies a great texture and this is another great chocolate chip cookie recipe, but I much prefer The Chewy. I just like chewy cookies.

The Puffy – from Alton Brown – I got 4 dozen cookies using my cookie scoop1 cup butter-flavored shortening – I used 1/2 cup shortening + 1/2 cup unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 1/4 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Combine the shortening (and butter), sugar, and brown sugar in a bowl, and cream until light and fluffy. Sift together the cake flour, salt, and baking powder; set aside.

Add the eggs 1 at a time to the creamed mixture. Add vanilla. Increase the speed until thoroughly incorporated.

With the mixer set to low, slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and combine well. Stir in the chocolate chips. Chill the dough (I chilled the dough overnight). Scoop onto parchment-lined baking sheets, 6 per sheet (I used a my regular sized cookie scoop to get smaller cookies). Bake for 13 minutes (mine baked for about 9 minutes) or until golden brown and puffy, checking the cookies after 5 minutes. Rotate the baking sheet for even browning. Cool and store in an airtight-container.

Cookies, Dessert

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17 Responses to “M&M Surprise Cookies”

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stephchows — December 4, 2009 at 2:01 pm

WOW total sugar coma! I love that it’s a PB cookie with a whole PB cup put into it!! Such a fun idea 🙂
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birdutmasali — December 4, 2009 at 3:32 pm

and peanut butter
and chocolate
and aMrshmallows
süpppppeer 🙂
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Jelli Bean — December 4, 2009 at 3:38 pm

Considering it’s not even 10am and I’ve just polished off my 4th cheesecake brownie, I’d better stay as far away from these cookies as possible. They look phenomenal.
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Ingrid — December 4, 2009 at 7:01 pm

Looks good. I bet they’d be super festive looking with the holiday m&ms.

Happy Friday!
~ingrid
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nutmegnanny — December 5, 2009 at 1:26 am

These look sugary and delicious 🙂 I tend to find mini M&M’s either in the check out lane or at Christmas I find them over where they have little stocking stuffer candy.
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Molly Jean — December 5, 2009 at 2:49 am

I have the sugar shakes just thinking about these 🙂 They are waaaay too cute!
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Julie — December 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm

I’d love that sugar party in my mouth…wow!
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oneordinaryday — December 8, 2009 at 1:53 pm

My kiddos would be all over this. All that candy PLUS a cookie?! They’d love it! LOL
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oneordinaryday — December 8, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Oh – the mini m&ms? I can usu. only find them in the check-out aisles in the small tubes. I haven’t seen them in bags in a long time.
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Jen — December 8, 2009 at 2:36 pm

I’ll have to look up by the checkout next time I need mini M&Ms. I was definitely looking for a bag…
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Amy — December 8, 2009 at 10:12 pm

OMG your pictures are TDF
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Lisa — December 8, 2009 at 11:33 pm

The only place I can find M&M minis now is in the bulk candy aisle. I haven’t seen them in any sort of packaging in ages.
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bridget {bake at 350} — January 3, 2010 at 1:03 am

“super sugar overload cookies” sound good to me! 🙂 Thanks for linking!
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Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com} — January 3, 2010 at 3:40 am

Very Clever!
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Katie — January 7, 2010 at 5:04 pm

Wow those look great, I’ll have to try them. I love your photography!
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