Thursday, October 6, 2011

The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies!

It's true, these really are the best chocolate chip cookies I've ever had. I was pretty sick of the recipe I had for chocolate chip cookies, they never turned out the same and most of the time they were all thin and spread out and weird. I Googled and this recipe kept popping up over and over again. So I made it and it was awesome and made really soft, chewy cookies.  I will use this one forever. I've even cheated and made it with margarine when butter wasn't a decent price and it was still pretty good. I recommend using real butter though, they just taste better!

Start by preheating the oven to 325 and gathering your ingredients:

Stuff you need

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 cup melted unsalted butter (if all you have is salted butter or margarine skip the salt in the recipe!)
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla 
  • 1 egg
  • 1egg yolk
  • an entire bag of chocolate chips (I used this bag of Caramilk thingies I had in the freezer)
Butter, sugar, vanilla and egg
Start by melting the butter and mixing it with the sugar and vanilla for a few minutes until it's nice and fluffy, then beat in the eggs. Combine all of the dry ingredients in a separate bowl and add to the mixer. Mix until just combined ( it should look pebbley) and then add the chocolate chips and give it another quick mix. You don't want to overmix it, the dough will be tough and the cookies will be hard.

Dry ingredients added and just barely mixed
Your finished dough
Chopped Frozen Tiny Caramilks

Grab a good sized handful of dough and lightly flatten it into a "cookie patty", no need to roll it into a ball or anything.  Bake at 325 for 16-20 minutes.  Make as many as you want and freeze the rest of the patties for whenever you get a cookie craving.


Handful of dough

Squish!

4 cookies for us to nom right away about to go in the oven


The rest can go in the fridge or freezer

Hot cookies!

OM

NOM!

    1 comment:

    1. Hi thanks for following me!! I like your blog too, its going to be soooo bad for my waistline!those cookies look amazing! :-)

      jo xx

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