Chocolate chip cookies have a soft heart that melts in your mouth and crunchy edges. These cookies are so overflowing with delicious chocolate.
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What makes this recipe great
It is a biscuit recipe that is very simple to make and requires a few ingredients that, for sure, you will already have at home.
Ingredients
- Flour: all-purpose flour is great for cookies
- Unsalted Butter: at room temperature
- Chocolate chip: all kind of chocolate chips works well in the cookies
- Vanilla: make sure to use pure vanilla paste or extract
- Sugar: white sugar or cane sugar are great
Instructions
In a bowl of a standing mixer, place the butter and sugar and mix until light and fluffy.
Add the eggs and vanilla, mix slowly. Using a wooden spoon or a spatula, stir the flour mixure into the butter mixture. stir until well combined, but try to not overmix.
Lastly, fold in the chopped chocolate.
Cover the dough with some kitchen wrap and let it rest in the fridge for minimum 2 hours (overnight would e better!).
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
Using a cookie scoop or an ice cream spoon, scoop the cookie dough and arrange on baking trays, leaving about 5 cm between each.
Bake one trail at time for about 14 minutes.
The cookies are ready when they are slightly golden around the edges, but very soft and puffy in the middle.
Take them out of the oven, sprinkle with sea salt and leave to cool a few minutes before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely
Substitutions & Variations
- Flour: all-purpose flour can be replaced by gluten-free all-purpose flour.
- Chocolate Chips -
- Capers - capers can be replaced with black olives
- Spicy - add chili pepper flakes or some spicy oil to imbue heat into the dish
- Dressing - use any other dressing you like.
- Add - pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds
Expert tips
Use a Cookie scoop: this helps to drop evenly size dough ball onto the baking sheet.
Flatten cookies: it's important to flat the cookies before baking
Ingredients: Use room temperature ingredients
Chocolate chips: Use quality chocolate chips
Do not overmix your batter: don't overmix them, or they will become chewy instead of crunchy, this is very important.
Chill the dough: Results are almost always better when you rest the cookie dough in the refrigerator.
Add some chocolate: add some chips on top of the cookies before baking them for an even more chocolaty result!
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Recipe
Chocolate chip cookies
Ingredients
- 200 gr. flour
- ½ teaspoon of Baking Soda
- 120 gr of unsalted butter at room temperature
- 170 gr of sugar
- 200 gr of chocolate chip or fine scallions of dark chocolate
- 1 egg + 1 yolk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract vanilla paste
- salt
Instructions
- In a bowl, sift the flour with the baking soda and add a pinch of salt, then put it aside.
- In a bowl of a standing mixer, place the butter and sugar and mix until light and fluffy.
- Add the eggs and vanilla, mix slowly. Using a wooden spoon or a spatula, stir the flour mixture into the butter mixture. stir until well combined, but try to not overmix.
- Lastly, fold in the chopped chocolate.
- Cover the dough with some kitchen wrap and let it rest in the fridge for minimum 2 hours (overnight would e better!).
- Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Using a cookie scoop or an ice cream spoon, scoop the cookie dough and arrange on baking trays, leaving about 5 cm between each.
- Bake one trail at time for about 14/15 minutes.
- The cookies are ready when they are slightly golden around the edges, but very soft and puffy in the middle.
- Take them out of the oven, sprinkle with sea salt and leave to cool a few minutes before transfering to a wire rack to cool completely
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