Bakery quality cookies
Everyone has their favorite recipe for chocolate chip cookies, and I’m no exception. I’ve been making cookies since my early teens and chocolate chip cookies were always my favorite cookie to bake.
I recently purchased a Cook’s Illustrated cookbook at a thrift store that is quickly becoming one of my favorite cookbooks. It is a wonderful resource. What I like about Cook’s Illustrated is they tell you why certain ingredients work and don’t work, and how to get the results you are hoping for in your recipes.
Better than a bakery cookie
I have always liked bakery-style frosted brownies and bakery cookies. This newly found chocolate chip cookie recipe is so much like a bakery cookie with a soft center and crisp edges it is now officially the only recipe I use.
Here’s the recipe:
Chewy and Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour + 2 Tbs
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 12 Tbs unsalted butter melted and cooled until warm
- 1 cup light brown sugar packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg | plus 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 1-1½ cups semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Adjust oven racks to upper and lower-middle positions and heat oven to 325°. Line two large cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in medium bowl, set aside
- Either by hand or with electric ixer, mix melted butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Beat in egg, egg yolk, and vanilla until combined.
- Add dry ingredients and beat at low speed just until combined. Stir in chips to taste.
- Roll scant ¼ cup dough into ball. Holding dough ball in fingertips of each hand, pull into two equal halves. Rotate halves 90° away from center, and with jagged surfaces facing up, join halves togehter at their base, again forming a single dough ball, being careful not to smooth dough's uneven surface.Place dough onto cookie sheet, leaving approximately 2" between each cookie dough ball.
- Bake, reversing position of cookie sheets halfway through baking. (switch racks and turn cookie sheets)Bake until cookies until light golden brown and outer edges start to harden and centers are still soft and puffy.15-18 minutes. Cool cookies on sheets.
I just had to add brown sugar to my shopping list. Baking seems to be how many people are using all their time at home these days. Hopefully, I’ll be able to find that brown sugar!
If you are looking for a good comfort food recipe, my chicken pot pie is a family and reader favorite. My friend, Marian reviews it on her blog here
Hang in there friends and stay safe,
