Tuesday, March 18, 2014

start with a classic- chocolate chip cookies



This is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever!  I've tried a whole bunch, but this is the only one that tastes great and look so pretty people might think you cheated and bought them.  These are soft in the middle and puffy, and don't spread out too much on the cookie sheet.  Normally I'd give you more pictures of the process, but I'm not actually making these today, I just happened to take a picture of the finished product from when I made them last week.  They were just so pretty!


Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

ingredients:
3/4 C unsalted butter, softened
3/4 C brown sugar
1/4 C granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 C AP flour (if you want to be healthy and sub whole wheat flour, the cookies turn out just as good)
2 tsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1 C bittersweet chocolate chips

directions:
1. preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer with paddle attachment, cream butter and both sugars together until light and fluffy.  Add egg and vanilla and mix.
3. mix in flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt.  Stir in chocolate chips.
4. use a cookie scoop (this makes nice uniform cookies) and drop cookie dough blobs onto greased cookie sheet.  Bake for 8-12 minutes (depending on the size of your scoop) until golden around edges.  Do not wait until the tops brown to take cookies out or they will be very crunchy.
5.  let cookies cool for 5 minutes.  Makes around 2 dozen large cookies.

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