Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

"This is my husband's favorite cookie...it is from Cook's Illustrated.."
 
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Ready In:
30mins
Ingredients:
11
Yields:
18 large cookies
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ingredients

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directions

  • Adjust oven racks to upper and lower middle positions.
  • Heat oven to 325*.Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  • Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in medium bowl, set aside.
  • Either by hand or electric mixer, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Beat in egg, yolk and vanilla until combined.
  • Add dry ingredients and beat at low speed just until combined.
  • Stir in chips to taste.
  • Roll scant 1/4 cup of dough into ball.Holding dough ball in fingertips of both hands, pull into 2 equal halves. rotate 90* and with jagged edges facing up, join halves together at their base, again forming a single ball being careful not to smooth dough's uneven surface.
  • Place formed dough onto cookie sheet, leaving 2 1/2" between each ball.
  • Bake, reversing position of cookie sheets halfway through baking, until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy -- 15-18 minutes.
  • Cool cookies on sheets . When cooled, peel cookies from parchment -- .

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Reviews

  1. I love these, and had it posted until recently discovered as a duplicate. It looks like the flour differs from the original, as well as the egg. The original recipe is 2 cups 2 Tbps flour, and it has 1 large whole egg, and 1 large egg yolk. Great cookies!
     
  2. This is MY favorite recipe for CCC. Everyone in the family seems to like different one's best, but this is perfect for me. I use ghiradelli 60% cocoa chocolate chips- they are the best for baking! I also chill the dough sometimes even overnight if I can because I think the bake perfectly like that. The dough is obviously firm from being cold, but I don't find the fresh dough stiff like many reviewers.
     
  3. I make this for every guest at our B&B. They always love them and usually ask for the recipe. I make sure to cream the butter and sugars until they turn light in color. Sometimes the batter is thicker, probably due to less humidity or cool weather. If it seems to gooey (before I add the chocolate chips), I add a lit more flour.
     
  4. These are excellent. OMG....this was exactly the type of recipe I was looking for. The picture doesn't look like how they are, they do 'crack' ever so slightly but not like I see in this picture. And to be honest, the picture doesn't do this recipe justice! LOL, so don't let the pic fool ya. You MUST try this recipe. Perfection. The recipe should meant to say 1 large egg and one egg yolk. This is a keeper. I like that it doesn't make too many cookies, too.
     
  5. I have baked these cookies three times now and learnt a valuable lesson the second time. Pay particular attention to not over mixing the dough!!!I I cannot stress this enough! Overmixing will result in a strange gooey textured cookie that just will not cook in the centre, and it will be an absolute waste of your time and ingredients.<br/>Overall I found these cookies quite good, but not the best cookie I have ever had. They sure are chewy though! However, the outside of mine were crunchy, but I did not over-bake them because the centres were done perfectly. The cookie tastes nice and sweet. However, the first time I baked these they were very thin and flat, no matter how high the dough balls are when they go into the oven! I personally prefer chunkier cookies. However, the third time I made them they were chunky! So no idea what went differently!<br/>I used 1 cup of chopped up chocolate, and have tried variations with the chocolate. I have tried 1/2c Whittakers white chocolate and 1/2c Whittakers 50% chocolate. I have also tried 1 cup M&Ms. I am yet to try white, milk and dark chocolate! <br/>Overall, I would recommend this recipe if you are sick of cookie recipes never working out like I was!
     
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I love cooking, and reading Christian fiction..I have 5 grandchildren..4 boys and 1 spoiled granddaughter...I also have a black cocker spaniel named Tobey..who is very spoiled..Love computer games, cross stitch and reading cookbooks..I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia almost a year ago, on September 26, 2005....was in an out of the hospital for 8 months, doing intensive chemo...I am doing well now, thanks for all the prayers...
 
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