The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
I like a chocolate chip cookie with chewy innards and a slightly crisp edge, buttery crumbs, complex flavors, and lots of chocolate chips. With those standards, this is the recipe for the best chocolate chip cookies.
Servings: 20
Calories: 210kcal
Equipment
- electric mixer
- 2 mixing bowls
- whisk
- Flour sifter
- rubber spatula
- Airtight wrap such as plastic wrap
- Kitchen scale
- 2 baking sheets
- silicone baking mats or parchment paper
- spatula
- cooling rack
Ingredients
- 2 c minus 2 tbsp cake flour
- 1 ⅔ c bread flour
- 1 ¼ tsp baking soda
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 ½ tsp coarse salt
- 1 ¼ c butter softened
- 1 ¼ c light brown sugar lightly packed
- 1 c plus 2 tbsp white sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 11 oz milk chocolate chips I like Guittard
- Flaky salt
Instructions
- In one mixing bowl, whisk together all dry ingredients except the sugars and the flaky salt (cake flour, bread flour, baking soda, baking powder, and coarse salt) until combined.
- In a bowl fitted to an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, then beat in the vanilla.
- Add the flour in 3-4 batches, stirring well and scraping the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula between each addition.
- Mix in the chocolate chips.
- Wrap the dough in airtight wrap (such as plastic wrap) and allow to chill for at least 24 hours (up to 72 hours).
- When the dough has chilled, weigh it in grams on a kitchen scale, and divide your total by 20 (that's how many cookies we're making). If there is any remainder, discard it or bake it into a small cookie.
- Preheat your oven to 350F.
- Divide your dough into 20 even balls and space them out on your cookie sheets. They should be about the size of golf balls. Do not press them flatter; they will spread significantly.
- Sprinkle each cookie with a bit of flaky salt. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Allow cookies to cool for about 2 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack and cool an additional 10 minutes.
Nutrition
Calories: 210kcal
