Nonetheless because I still am not able to use my mixer as yet, I got to find the easy way out. So trust me, if you are really into chewy cookies, this recipe is definitely a keeper.
Ingredients
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar (light or dark, but we prefer dark!)
1 stick butter (salted), softened
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon table salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 375°. Spray the cookie sheet with nonstick spray or you can use a liner.
2. Mix together the two sugars. Be sure to break apart any hard chunks of brown sugar and get the two sugars fully mixed. We prefer dark brown sugar because we think it has a deeper, more caramel flavor, but light brown sugar will make your cookies taste a bit sweeter.
3. Mix the softened butter into the sugar in globs. This helps really incorporate the butter and the sugar.
4. Mix in the eggs one at a time. Crack the eggs directly into the bowl with the butter-sugar mix, and then use your spoon to lightly beat the eggs before stirring them into the butter and sugar.
5. Measure and mix in the vanilla, salt, and baking soda. Mix the batter as much as possible right now. Break apart any remaining clumps and make sure the batter is a consistent color throughout.
If you prefer, you can mix the salt and baking soda with the flour in a separate bowl instead of adding them now. This ensures that these dry ingredients are evenly distributed throughout the batter, but we've never had any trouble adding them in at this point. Honestly, we just prefer to save ourselves an extra bowl to wash!
6. Add the flour all at once. At this point, you want to mix the batter as little as possible to avoid forming too much gluten. Stop mixing as soon as there is no more visible flour on the dough or in the bottom of the bowl.
7. Add the chocolate chips all at once and use a folding motion to incorporate them into the batter.
8. Scoop the batter onto your baking sheet, spacing the balls of dough roughly 2 inches apart. We use a tablespoon and measure out slightly rounded balls - they're about the size of pingpong balls. You can certainly go larger or smaller as you prefer!
9. Bake the cookies for 9-11 minutes. Take them out when they look puffy, are set around the edges, and dry to the touch. Let them cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet. As they cool, they will collapse back on themselves.
10. Transfer the cookies to a rack to finish cooling completely. Bake the rest of the cookies in batches.
Additional Notes:
• This recipe makes roughly 40 cookies.
• Mixing cookies by hand, as we like to do, makes your cookies denser and chewier.
• You can certainly make chocolate chip cookies with a hand- or stand-mixer. Your cookies will likely spread out more in the oven, making the edges crispy and the middles tender.
• Cookie dough can be refrigerated for several days before baking. This will actuallydeepen the caramel flavors in the cookie. Cookie dough can also be frozen for several months.
• This recipe is gratefully adapted from the Original Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.
Kerri and Keira can't stop munching on them after it's fresh out of oven after their nap yesterday. I left a portion of the dough in the freezer. I read it's best to leave it for at least 24 hours to have another kind of surprise. Well we shall see how the next batch will turns out. Stay tune.
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