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Chocolate Chip Cookies

June 15, 2016

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

There are a whole lot of chocolate chip cookie recipe out there. I mean, I have a whole Pinterest board dedicated to chocolate chip cookies. Despite the vast quantity of recipes, they are pretty much all the same, maybe just a few tweaks in the amount of ingredients or the quality of the chocolate.

I have been on a quest to find the best chocolate chip cookies for a while. Actually, don’t be surprised if you see a whole challenge in the future where I pit one recipe against the other for total chocolate chip cookie supremacy (hence the chocolate chip cookie Pinterest board). But I recently whipped up a batch of cookies using a very familiar and classic chocolate chip cookie recipe as my guide. Of course, I made a few tweaks to it, because that’s what I do, and the cookies turned out incredible.

I didn’t use any fancy chocolate or extremely expensive or exotic ingredients. My special ingredients are two things you might already have in your pantry: sea salt and coffee extract. Other than that, my fancy shmancy chocolate chips cookies are basically the Nestle Tollhouse cookie recipe.

[Side Note: does this not remind you of the Friends episode where Monica is desperate to get Pheobe’s ā€œgrandmother’sā€ famous chocolate chip cookie recipe?]

Chocolate Chip Cookies

While I am known to change things up a bit and make a recipe my own, I did follow strict instructions to freeze my dough. I let the dough chill for an hour before I scooped it onto the baking sheet, then I chilled it again for another 15 to 30 minutes. Not only did this improve the shape of the cookies (they didn’t spread as much) but the flavor was better, too.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

The resulting cookie was crispy around the edges and soft in the middle, just how I like them. If you like really soft slightly gooey cookies, then I would recommend baking then just a few minutes less so that the center are just a tad under baked but the edges still have some structure to them.

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie with Sea Salt

I couldn’t stop eating these cookies. They tasted like a better version of the chocolate chip cookies I would eat as a kid. They were sweet and rich. The chocolate flavor was accentuated by the coffee extract. But the sea salt is what really put these cookies over the top. I will never again make a chocolate chip cookie without a sprinkle of sea salt. It just takes them to a whole new level.

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Since I couldn’t stop eating them, I got the out of my house and brought them into my office where my coworkers gobbled them up as well. Even though at that point they were a couple days old, everyone raved about them.

I wanted to tell them they were this very complicated recipe using expensive gourmet chocolate, because they would have totally believed it. Instead I told them the truth: it’s pretty much just a Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie. Can’t beat a classic!

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Tagged: chocolate, chocolate chip, cookies

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Comments

  1. Jeanette says

    June 18, 2016 at 3:05 am

    I love chocolate chip cookies. Thanks for sharing this recipe šŸ™‚

    • followtheruels says

      June 18, 2016 at 8:42 am

      Thanks Jeanette!

  2. Laura says

    June 18, 2016 at 9:38 am

    Wow! Absolutely gorgeous photos and I’m totally loving that flakey sea salt! These cookies look delicious!

    • followtheruels says

      June 18, 2016 at 9:25 pm

      Thanks Laura! They were delicious!

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