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Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Baked for the 2010 Serious Eats Cookie Exchange
"I like my cookies like I like my burgers: straight up." —Matt Jacobs, FoSE
About This Recipe
| Yield: | Makes 1 1/2 dozen very large cookies |
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Ingredients
- 2 1/8 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg plus 1 yolk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (pure, real!)
- 1-2 cups semi-or bittersweet chocolate chips/chunks
Procedures
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1
Preheat oven to 325°F.
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Mix flour, salt, and baking soda together in medium bowl. Mix butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Mix in egg, yolk, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients; mix until just combined. Stir in chips to taste.
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3
Form 1/4 cup dough into a ball. Holding dough ball, using fingertips of both hands, pull into two equal halves. Rotate halves ninety degrees and, with jagged surfaces exposed, join halves together at their base, again forming a single cookie, being careful not to smooth dough's uneven surface.
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4
Place on parchment paper-lined cookie sheets. Dough can be refrigerated up to 2 days or frozen up to 1 month, shaped or not.
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5
Bake until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy, 15-18 minutes. Cool on cookie sheets.
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