Article: All-American treat Chocolate chip cookies are everywhere

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There was nothing quite like plunging a warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie into a big glass of milk after school, or before bedtime or any time you could get your hands on one.

Now that you're grown up--well, old enough to bake cookies for your own children--you've been trying to replicate the experience.

Why else would there be hundreds of recipes for such a simple sweet?

You can make them with nuts, rolled oats, bran, raisins or peanut butter. If you're adventurous enough, you can even have them with zucchini.

The cookies can be made crispy or soft and chewy, or a combination of both. As testament to the wide variety of preferences, commercial brands crowd supermarket shelves and seem to ...

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