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My famous Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

Instructions

Whisk together the dry ingredients.

Beat together the melted butter and sugars until well combined and slightly lightened in color. Add the eggs one at a time and beat until combined. Continue beating until lightened in color. Mix in the vanilla extract.

Add half of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and slowly mix until just combined. Add the second half and slowly mix until mostly combined, with some flour still visible.

Fold in the chocolate wafers (but not the chips!).

Refrigerate dough overnight.

Preheat oven to 350°.

Measure out 55g balls of cookie dough and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Sprinkle a pinch of flaky sea salt onto each ball.

Bake cookies for 10-12 minutes, until the peaks of the cookies appear golden brown.

As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, push 3-4 chocolate chips into the top. (This is mostly to make them look better).

Transfer cookies to a cooling rack when they are sturdy, and let cool for ~10 minutes before eating.

Notes

Many of the ingredients are listed by weight. This is because it's hard to get a consistent recipe if you're measuring by volume, especially with things like flour and chocolate! Use a kitchen scale to make things easy and consistent.

To brown butter, start with ~10 oz of unsalted butter. Melt this in a saucepan and continue heating until it starts bubbling. Watch the butter and occasionally stir. Eventually, the bubbling will somewhat subside. Now, continually stir and watch the color of the milk solids floating around, they should slowly turn from whitish to golden brown to dark brown. Remove the butter from the heat when they reach dark brown, almost black. Strain to remove the milk solids, or let settle and pour off the top. Let cool before using in the recipe to prevent cooking the eggs.

Allowing the dough to rest overnight helps hydrate everything and lets the flavors infuse, which makes things more delicious!

Getting good chocolate for cookies is hard. I've found that using flat shaped chocolate chips provides a better taste, and makes delicious layers. I use Guittard's baking wafers: Milk Chocolate Wafers and Semisweet Chocolate Wafers.