Chocolate Chip Cookies
Source: Basics with Babish
Ingredients
Item | Quantity |
---|---|
Unsalted Butter | 1 cup |
White Sugar | ½ cup |
Brown Sugar | 1 ½ cups |
Eggs | 2 |
Flour | 2 ¼ cups |
Salt | to taste (1 tablespoon in recipe) |
Baking Soda | ½ teaspoon |
Cinnamon | ¾ teaspoon |
Chocolate Chips | 1 bag (approximately) |
Nuts* | to taste |
* optional
Instructions
- Brown the butter
- Heat the butter in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly
- Keep going until the milk fats turn brown and form in small solid clumps (don’t burn the butter!)
- Refridgerate the butter again until it’s cold (at least an hour or two)
- Mix the white sugar, brown sugar, and browned butter together using a stand mixer
- The butter should go in cold
- Add the eggs, 1 one at time, mix until creamy
- The eggs should go in cold
- In a separate bowl, mix the flour, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon
- Slowly add the dry ingredients to the sugar & eggs mixture, mixing the whole time
- Add the chocolate chips (and optional nuts) into the mixture until just mixed (minimize the mixture)
- Wrap in plastic wrap and refridgerate for up to 3 days
- Pre-heat an oven to 375 °F
- Form into 12 rougly-equal balls
- Squish the balls onto a cookie sheet into roughshod shapes
- Bake for 17 minutes, or until desired doneness
- Let cool, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling