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Bake & Share: Chocolate Chip Cookies as Christian Hospitality
A flexible chocolate chip cookie recipe with a simple purpose: bake enough to share, use the kitchen as a place of welcome and turn a familiar treat into practical hospitality.
Faith, Food & Fellowship
A tray of cookies is ordinary enough to be useful. You do not need a special occasion to practice hospitality; sometimes you only need enough dough to make a few extra.
This is the dessert recipe I am keeping from the older Jack Righteous recipe archive because it has a simple, repeatable purpose: bake with family, package a few for neighbours, bring them to somebody’s home or put them on the table when people come through the door.
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 cups chocolate chips
Method
- Heat oven to 350°F / 175°C and line baking sheets.
- Cream butter with both sugars until combined and smooth.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla.
- Whisk flour, baking soda and salt separately, then mix into the wet ingredients just until combined.
- Fold in chocolate chips.
- Scoop onto baking sheets and bake about 9–12 minutes, depending on size and preferred texture.
- Cool briefly before moving to a rack.
The sharing rule
Before the first tray goes into the oven, choose a few cookies that will not stay in your house. Put them aside for a neighbour, coworker, family member, church friend or somebody who could use a small reminder that they were thought of.
Hospitality does not need to be expensive. The point is not the cookie. The point is practicing generosity often enough that sharing becomes normal.
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