Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Best Big, Fat, Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie


This is one DANG good cookie! I have been searching, and I mean SEARCHING for the best chocolate chip cookie recipie. I have found a whole lot of good recipies, but this is by far THE BEST! You will not be disappointed! I am definately thinking the "secret ingredient" is the extra egg yolk. Who knows why, but man-oh-man, these are the best! I made the dough today, but I won't bake them until Friday or Saturday. I can't wait to take some pictures so I can post them for you to see. Also, I doubled the batch and didn't realize that I didn't have 2 bags of chocolate chips....so I used 1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips, 1/2 bag white chocolate chips and 1/2 bag Reece's peanut butter chips. Mmmmmm, perfection :)


INGREDIENTS:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg
1 egg yolk
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper.
Sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside.
In a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended. Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. Mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended. Stir in the chocolate chips by hand using a wooden spoon. Drop cookie dough 1/4 cup at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets (these cookies are HUGE bakery style cookies, but can be made smaller). Cookies should be about 3 inches apart.
Bake for 15 to 17 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are lightly toasted. Cool on baking sheets for a few minutes (about 10) before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

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