favorite chocolate chip cookies of all time.

perhaps it's a blogger cliche to find the best chocolate chip cookie recipe & swear by it, but i simply couldn't keep this discovery from you. to be honest, i'm a break & bake girl. if i'm going to bake, i tend to think i should do something more orginal than classic chocolate chip cookies, so i usually just do break & bake if i'm in the mood for them.

that said, i've been seriously craving chocolate chip cookies since ellie arrived (i really don't want to know how many i've had in the past two months) & so last week i decided to make some from scratch. a quick search of my google reader starred entries led me to this post and these cookies, which i'm now totally in love with:

Ingredients:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:
• preheat the oven to 325 degrees. grease cookie sheets.
• sift together the flour, baking soda and salt; set aside. in a medium bowl, cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well blended.
• beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until light and creamy. mix in the sifted ingredients until just blended.
• stir in the chocolate chips using a wooden spoon. drop rounded balls of cookie dough, about a spoonful at a time, onto the prepared cookie sheets. cookies should be about 3 inches apart.
• bake for 15 to 17 minutes, or until the edges are lightly toasted. cool on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

*be sure you have friends to share with immediately!

Comments

[Gemma]

These look delicious!

When you say one egg and one egg yolk, do you mean one whole egg (as in the yolk and the white) and then another egg yolk as well? Or just one whole egg? :)

[Lisa]

Oh I want these so badly..

[tulips & flight suits]

gemma, great questions & yes, one whole egg (yolk + white), and then another just egg yolk -- one of the quirks of the recipe! :)

[Lauren (San Francisco)]

Yum! I can't wait to try these - thanks for sharing. :-)

[em]

this was my favorite go-to recipe....until I met smitten kitchen's recipe for oatmeal cookies. i sub chocolate chips for the raisins, and it turns out every single time!

http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/02/thick-chewy-oatmeal-raisin-cookies/

[Kate]

I have been reading your blog for a while and you always have fun tips to share and great taste I might add! I stumbled on to your blog because we are living in Holland and I was looking for expat blogs. I always have fresh tulips on my table because they are so cheap.
Another reason I love your blog is that I have a baby girl named Stella who was born December 16th just before your Ellie and they look so similar and are having the same milestones. She is my 3rd and is such a sweetie.
Just thought I would say hello and that I am so jealous you can eat chocolate!!! It doesn't agree with baby's tummy and I can't have any right now so I leave chocolate chips out of my cookies. One thing I do in my cookies is I sub some flour with oat flour (just grind oats in the food processor). It makes them chewy and gives great flavor.
Keep up the great blog!

[Jen]

I finally got around to trying this recipe last night after the chocolate monster visited me. You were right. It's amazing.

http://www.hopelesslytechie.com/2012/03/simply-amazing-chocolate-chip-cookies.html

[Diana]

Finally made these tonight after days of pestering by my husband for break and bake. He said these were the perfect combination of crunchy and chewy. They knock the pants off all other scratch recipes I've tried since we got married. Yay Mary!