Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hey I know that you're all probably sick of hearing about everyone's "best" chocolate chip cookie recipes, but I feel like I want to weigh in. I've been raised on grocery store, thick, chewy, chocolate chips cookies, and all the recipes I've tried so far leave me with thin, deflated slivers of chocolate-chip-cookie-flavored leaves. Here's a recipe for an honest-to-goodness, hearty, chocolate chip cookie that's soft, but gives you that nice bite that you want.

Butter, 1 cup
Light brown sugar, 2 cups
Eggs, 2
Vanilla, 2 teaspoons
All-purpose flour, 16 oz
Coarse sea salt, 1.5 tablespoons
Baking powder, 1.5 teaspoons
Baking soda, 1 teaspoon
Chocolate chips, 11 oz

Preheat oven to 350F. Cream together the butter and brown sugar. Add vanilla and eggs. Beat for another 2 minutes. Add flour, sea salt, baking powder, and baking soda. After it's homogenous, add the chocolate chips. Scoop out with a standard ice cream scoop (usually 6 per a half baking sheet). If you want a little flatter cookies, press them down, otherwise, they will turn into perfect little mounds. Bake for 15-18
minutes (just before they start browning), cool.

It's really simple, but to me it was a long journey to my favorite cookie.


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