Chocolate Chip Cookies
photo by Rita1652
- Ready In:
- 28mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
30
ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1⁄4 cup white sugar
- 1⁄4 cup light corn syrup
- 1⁄2 cup light brown sugar, well packed
- 1 large egg
- 1⁄2 vanilla bean
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 pinch baking soda
- 1 pinch salt
- 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chunks (either high quality milk or dark chocolate)
- 1 cup grated chocolate (semi-sweet or other)
- 1 cup nuts, chopped (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the softened butter with the sugars and corn syrup. Beat at medium-high speed for 3 to 4 minutes until the butter is light and fluffy and much of the granular sugar is dissolved into the butter. Add the egg and the scrapings from the inside of the ½ vanilla bean.
- In another mixing bowl, combine the flour, baking soda and salt.
- Reduce your mixer speed to medium and combine the dry ingredients into the liquid. Only mix enough to fully combine the ingredients. Over mixing toughens the cookie up.
- Using a spatula fold the chocolate chunks and shavings into the dough.
- Scoop mounded tablespoons of dough onto a parchment lined cookie sheet. Bake for 8-9 minutes. Actual baking time depends on the size of the cookie; 2 inch cookies are about 8 minutes, very large 3-4 inch cookies are more like 10-11 minutes.
- Remove from oven and allow them to cool for 1 minute on the sheets before removing to a wire rack.
- Serve with milk and a smile.
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Reviews
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Excellent chocolate chip cookies. I too have never used corn syrup or vanilla bean in my cookies but it worked well with this. I liked the not so sweet taste that you can sometimes get with chocolate chip cookies. I left out the nuts but added in some toffee chips with only about 6 ozs of the semisweet chocolate chips. Really a yummy cookie. Thanks Toni
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