Today is a snow day. Not one of those dreamy snow days where you wake up to a fresh white blanket of snow and you run outside to make snow angels with your sisters. It’s more of a rainy day. Nonetheless, what is a girl cooked up in her apartment supposed to do? Bake cookies, naturally.
The perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe is something extremely personal. Whether your family’s secret recipe is on the back of Nestle Toll House chocolate chip bag, or in your grandmother’s World War II journal, everyone has a recipe they believe to be the best. Up until yesterday, my ‘secret recipe’ was on the back of every chocolate chip bag in every supermarket across the nation. But after yesterday, I am proud to say I have found my own unique recipe.
My new recipe comes from the lovely Londoner, who I more than adore. These classic chocolate chip cookies are everything a chocolate cookie should be and more. I changed the recipe slightly, just omitting the hazelnuts.
A Dozen Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies:
2c flour
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
3/4c (1.5 sticks) unsalted butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp vanilla
1 egg + 1 egg yolk
1.5 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Heat oven to 350 degrees
- Mix the dry ingredients
- In a separate bowl, beat the sugar and butter
- Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
- Pour wet mixture into the dry mixture and work those muscles.
- Mix in chocolate chips.
- Using your hands, roll dough into balls and flatten slightly on the cookie sheet.
- Bake for 12 minutes, while painting your nails (you’ll need a distraction) or until golden brown.
- Place on a cooling rack and enjoy with a glass of almond milk and your best girlfriends.
Before:
After:
They are perfectly sweet, chewy, dense, with a touch of salt. Perfection.
