By Paris Breakfast.

French Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 10:04 AM PST

Another French bone (or cookie) of contention today. I got all steamed up over the weekend after reading Raids-Patisserie'sevaluation of the best chocolate chip cookies in Paris(!?) You're looking at a Laura Todd 'classique' (burp) chocolat noirhere.. Here's your basic New York chocolate chip($3.) from City Bakery. OK maybe the sugar is too carmelized etc. but the texture and surface is day and night from those Frenchie chocolate chips.
How could it be otherwise, when the flour, water, eggs, bla, bla, bla are completement different. Even the altitude counts I was told in France. Not to mention the chocolate...ahem

These sad looking samples were being sold dans le rue in Montmartre...

For a celebration of terroir/regional products. OUCH

I know the French love new trends and maybe choc chip cookies are 'cool', but Hey, I'm very chauvinistic about these.Disclosure: I'm not a true chocolate chip cookie connosisseur. I'll eat a chocolate-chocolate chip before I go for the classic. My fav is at Cafe Petrossian but they were cleaned out by 2 pm on Saturday (and they are a FRENCH cafe!). Even mass-market Whole Foods cookies look better to me than the French samples. Wish I'd gotten the pumpkin-walnut sitting next to these...

Union Sq. Farmers Market gets them right.

Laura Todd is a huge very clever chain that introduced choc chips to France. I broil whenever I see their stands at thesalon du chocolat or Galeries Lafayette Gourmet :(

Grrrrr....

HMPH

Did you know New York cheese cake is big in Paris?

Fortunately our pound cake (or is it British) they will never get but that's another post...

Why the French can't be satisfied making the most seductive pastry on the planet (except for the Japanese perhaps)

Is beyond me...

Photo by Robyn Lee

If you want to find the 10 best choc chip cookies in New York here's a list from Serious Eats. There are many others.

Au Revoir French Chocolate Chip Cookies!