Stone Baked Candied Pecan Chocolate Chippers

Chocolate Chip Cookies usually don't make for every exciting pictures,  but the "photographer" almost gobbled these up before this was snapped!

 Walking into that magical wonderland of Williams Sonoma, to me, is like taking a 5 year old to Toys R Us -  toys as far as the eye can see, and you know you're probably not gonna' get out of there without plunking down some cash.

I knew I was in trouble the minute I walked in last week. Yes, there it was in all its glory - that Emile Henry pizza stone I'd been eyeballing for a while.  Yeah, I splurged caved and bought it on the spot.  Can you blame me?  I mean, look at all it can do, it's a real workhorse:  it makes breads, cookies, and incredible thin, crispy crust pizza like you'd find at your local coal fire oven pizza place. You can use it on the grill or  in the oven, and it's even dishwasher safe (cleaning is a breeze so that's not even necessary). And unlike most pizza stones, it doesn't absorb oils from previously baked foods.  If that isn't enough to hook you, it's lighter than regular pizza stones, you can cut right on it without so much as a scratch, it has handles so you can easily pop it on and off the grill, and  it's pretty enough to serve your masterpiece right on it. Talk about a multi-tasker!

Remember the other day when we made that monster of a cookie in the cast iron skillet?  Well, this time we're gonna' give cookies a whirl on the pizza stone to see how they turn out.

But these aren't your garden variety chocolate chip cookies. Take a bite and you'll experience slightly crispy edges, revealing a melt in your mouth center exploding with the caramel, chocolate and maple nut flavors.  Besides being baked on a pizza stone, a few other changes make these cookies bliss in every bite:  a combo of all purpose and cake flour create tenderness; toasted pecans are wrapped in a vanilla maple glaze before adding to the cookies; the ratio of light brown sugar to granulated sugar is higher, which adds caramel flavor; and chocolate oozes out with every bite because lots of extra chips are added.  No way you can eat just one of these!

Let's get baking>

"C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C."  ~ Cookie Monster