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Does anyone happen to have the recipe for the very delicious Midwest Airlines chocolate chip cookies???

I flew on the airline for the first time in June and fell in love with the cookies. Maybe they're just normal cookies, and they seem good because I'm in the air and they're warm and gooey and way better than a 0.05 oz bag of pretzels.

But one of my co-workers just came back from flying Midwest and was rubbing it in big time. I'd like to show her...by finding the recipe and making them!!!

They sell them in the stores too, but only in a couple markets...and I'm not sure they'd be as good as the ones on the plane.

It looks like they're keeping the recipe secret and selling the dough.

Yeah but I can't get it here! At least make it available!

And my personal opinion, those refrigerated dough cookies are never as good as the fresh ones. I love homemade tollhouse cookies but the nestle tollhouse dough is not even close.

I was hoping maybe someone knew someone who was related to someone by marriage...who knows the cookie recipe!

This is a great request, good luck with it.

My mom worked at the high school cafeteria for a long time, and one of the students LOVED the chocolate cake. He talked her out of the recipe -- take one 25-lb. bag of flour, add one 10 lb. bag of sugar, etc. -- and broke it down into a one-cake size recipe, which worked great after a little experimenting. I forget where the adjustments were required, I think in the liquid amounts.

Anyway, I think that if you do get the recipe, you'll be breaking down some large amounts into something more manageable. Happy baking!

All I could find was that they use vanilla from Madagascar and "exquisite chocolate"...so my only recourse at this point is to stop at Whole Foods on my way home, pay way too much for vanilla and chocolate and pray.

And don't forget the fleur de sel!

sunflower wrote:All I could find was that they use vanilla from Madagascar and "exquisite chocolate"...so my only recourse at this point is to stop at Whole Foods on my way home, pay way too much for vanilla and chocolate and pray.

I am a believer that excellent vanilla makes an amazing difference in the taste of everything it touches. The same is true for chocolate. While (probably) unrelated to cookies, I also like Julia Child's rule: "Never cook with wine that you wouldn't want to drink by itself."

Thanks to o-man for the article and recipe from the New York Times. I'll try it one of these days and report back.

After that, I'll invent the chocolate shiraz wafer.

I agree with the good vanilla concept. Imitation should be illegal. I hate paying the price for it, but just bought some this week for that German Chocolate Cake I made today. I just finished frosting it.

So who knew a little sea salt could make a CC cookie better? I have sea salt in my pantry. It also appears the frozen dough may actually turn out better than the dough you make yourself. Well maybe not, but I can think that anyway.

I use real vanilla, but I don't think it's from Madagascar. I've never tried the imitation stuff, the price difference isn't that great to warrant it. I only use real vanilla and real butter.

I have the sea salt so it's worth a try, I can try it on one batch and see.

sunflower wrote:Does anyone happen to have the recipe for the very delicious Midwest Airlines chocolate chip cookies???

I flew on the airline for the first time in June and fell in love with the cookies. Maybe they're just normal cookies, and they seem good because I'm in the air and they're warm and gooey and way better than a 0.05 oz bag of pretzels.

But one of my co-workers just came back from flying Midwest and was rubbing it in big time. I'd like to show her...by finding the recipe and making them!!!

They sell them in the stores too, but only in a couple markets...and I'm not sure they'd be as good as the ones on the plane.

I searched the recipes of a Yahoo group I belong to, but no luck. If you join the group you can put a request in for the recipe. Who knows, maybe someone will have it!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SendintheClones/

There is a web site:

http://www.copykat.com/home-topmenu-35

that has a lot of restaurant copycat recipes. I did a quick search there and didn't see it, but there are others.

Someone I know got the Wendy's Chili recipe from here.

sunflower wrote:I use real vanilla, but I don't think it's from Madagascar. I've never tried the imitation stuff, the price difference isn't that great to warrant it. I only use real vanilla and real butter.

I have the sea salt so it's worth a try, I can try it on one batch and see.

I am known for my Chocolate Chip Cookies. I buy really good vanilla from Trader Joes for my cookies, I also use real butter and good chocolate.