Chocolate Chip Cookies for a Chocoholic
I was checking email at Yahoo today and when I logged out I was greeted by this beautiful picture of the most scrumptious looking chocolate chip cookies.
The title of the article declared that this was THE BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe. So what else is a chocoholic to do? I clicked for more. Since I know that I'm not alone in this love of anything chocolate, I thought I'd share the recipe. As soon as I have a chance I plan to make these and see if the rumor is true. If you decide to make them, let me know how long they last in your house. :)
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Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes 1 1/2 dozen 3-inch cookies
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These truly chewy chocolate chip cookies are delicious served warm from the oven or cooled. To ensure a chewy texture, leave the cookies on the cookie sheet to cool. You can substitute white, milk chocolate, or peanut butter chips for the semi- or bittersweet chips called for in the recipe. In addition to chips, you can flavor the dough with one cup of nuts, raisins, or shredded coconut.
INGREDIENTS
| 2 1/8 | cups bleached all-purpose flour (about 10 1/2 ounces) |
| 1/2 | teaspoon table salt |
| 1/2 | teaspoon baking soda |
| 12 | tablespoons unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), melted and cooled slightly |
| 1 | cup brown sugar (light or dark), 7 ounces |
| 1/2 | cup granulated sugar (3 1/2 ounces) |
| 1 | large egg |
| 1 | large egg yolk |
| 2 | teaspoons vanilla extract |
| 1 - 2 | cups chocolate chips or chunks (semi or bittersweet) |
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2. Either by hand or with electric mixer, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Mix in egg, yolk, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients; mix until just combined. Stir in chips.
3. Form scant 1/4 cup dough into ball. Holding dough ball using fingertips of both hands, pull into two equal halves. Rotate halves ninety degrees and, with jagged surfaces exposed, join halves together at their base, again forming a single cookie, being careful not to smooth dough’s uneven surface. Place formed dough onto one of two parchment paper-lined 20-by-14-inch lipless cookie sheets, about nine dough balls per sheet. Smaller cookie sheets can be used, but fewer cookies can be baked at one time and baking time may need to be adjusted. (Dough can be refrigerated up to 2 days or frozen up to 1 month—shaped or not.)
4. Bake, reversing cookie sheets’ positions halfway through baking, until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy, 15 to 18 minutes (start checking at 13 minutes). (Frozen dough requires an extra 1 to 2 minutes baking time.) Cool cookies on cookie sheets. Serve or store in airtight container.
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Interesting about breaking the dough ball in half and reforming it. Never seen that before in a recipe.
