Chocolate Chip Cookies

As you may or not not know, and as I may or may not have previously mentioned, I detest chocolate. For my entire life, (my mother can attest to this, as can many other people) I have been entirely grossed out by all things chocolate. Sugar cookies that shared the same box as chocolate chip cookies? Sorry, not eating them. The flavor and smell of the chocolate rubs off onto anything it touches. A smudge of chocolate frosting on my vanilla-vanilla cupcake? You must be kidding.

My point in telling you all of that is this: today, for the first time in my life, I baked chocolate chip cookies. That's right. I BAKED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES and hell did not frozen over. Woah.

Before he left for work today, I told BF I wanted to bake cookies and asked him what kind he wanted. He countered that I wouldn't want to make the cookies he wanted, I assured him I would. So he left to go to work, and two grocery stores later, (the first one was out of flour.) I had my ingredients to make chewy chocolate chip cookies. I followed the recipe exactly, braving the chocolate-ness of the whole thing, and here are the the resulting cookies:

I must say, it was not the worst experience. And if I liked chocolate chip cookies, I'd think these look pretty damn good. Of course, I don't know how they taste, but I'm clearly assuming they're delicious.
Here is the recipe I used.

BF isn't home from work yet, but when he tastes them, I'll add an update on what my first chocolate chip cookies taste like.