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A secret is a secret. Such is the formula for the famous chocolate-chip cookies served at Doubletree hotels. Don't even ask. Original’s a secret,
but try thisThe cookies will be handed out on Saturday free to participants in the Visitor Industry Charity Walk, courtesy of the Doubletree Alana Waikiki Hotel.
Treats like these are what make it treacherous, calorie-wise, to undertake the Charity Walk, good cause though it may be. At each of 18 checkpoints throughout the 7-mile walk through Waikiki, restaurants and hotels will feed the walkers. At the end comes a plate lunch, plus entertainment.
The Charity Walk is the largest single-day fund-raiser in the state, taking place simultaneously on Oahu, Maui, Kauai and Big Island. Last year 13,800 walkers statewide raised $780,000 for more than 150 local charities. This year's goal is $1 million in pledges collected by the walkers.
Oahu's top money-maker will win a trip to London for two. The statewide "Golden Slippa" winner earns a mega inter-island trip that includes hotel stays on four islands.
But getting back to those cookies: Philippe Padovani of Padovani's Bistro & Wine Bar in the Doubletree Alana offers his recipe for a bar version of a Padovani-style chocolate-chip cookie, in lieu of the Doubletree secret recipe. His is probably way better anyhow.
Deb Wong had requested a chocolate chip bar cookie that would bake up crispy. This one fits the bill.
To make these precisely, Padovani specifies Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate chips. If they're too hard to find -- or too expensive -- substitute the best chocolate you can afford. The chef also specifies bread flour, which will yield a denser cookie than all-purpose flour. You get a very nice cookie substituting all-purpose, though (I tried).
These bar cookies differ from most recipes because you cut them up before baking, not after. This tends to make them more crisp than chewy.
Now, here's a secret: The website www.cookierecipe.com offers a recipe it purports to be Doubletree's. It includes cinnamon, lemon juice and rolled oats. Might be worth a try.
Hawaiian Vintage Chocolate
Padovani's Bistro & Wine Bar
Chip Cookie Bars8 ounces butterCream together butter and sugars. Add flour, baking soda, salt, vanilla and eggs. Fold in chocolate chips and chopped nuts.
8 ounces (1 cup) sugar
4 ounces (1/2 cup) brown sugar
1 pound 4 ounces (2-1/2 cups) bread flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
12 ounces Hawaiian Vintage chocolate chips
4 ounces chopped nuts
Divide dough in half. Cover a large cookie sheet with parchment, or lightly grease it, unless using a nonstick sheet. Place one section of dough onto cookie sheet and cover with another piece of parchment, wax paper or plastic wrap. Roll out dough between the parchment sheets, forming a rectangle about 8-by-12-inches, and about 1/2 inch thick. Repeat with remaining dough on a second cookie sheet. Refrigerate 4 hours.
Cut dough into 1-by-3-inch bars and separate, spreading them out. Bake at 350 degrees 10-15 minutes, depending on crispiness desired. Bars will harden as they cool.
Nutritional information unavailable.
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