I've perfected my chocolate chip cookie over the years, always working from memory. To my sons, they are so much more than a dessert.

The author's sons love her chocolate chip cookies so much that her older son asked for a giant chocolate chip cookie instead of a cake for his 11th birthday. Courtesy of Kristina Wright I make chocolate chip cookies from a recipe I've been tweaking for over 25 years. My sons say they're the best cookies ever, and have been asking me to write down the 'real' recipe. The cookies are the taste of their childhood, and I understand why they're so connected to them. According to my two teenage so...