Bakery Style Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've been making this recipe for over a year now, and I'm definitely known for making the best cookies around! All thanks to Steve_G! I always use half ww pastry flour and omit the extra 2 tablespoons of flour (don't seem to need it)... Often, I make the dough and freeze it to use as I need... too much dough for a house of 2. I pop the frozen dough right into the oven and it usually takes about 20 minutes to bake at 330....... BEST COOKIES EVER!!! Update: I was out of brown sugar, so I made my own using 1 C. white sugar plus 4T molasses. These were the BEST BATCH YET! The homemade brown sugar ended up being very dark, similar to a muscovado brown sugar. It added that mysterious rich, caramel-y, deep flavor! SO GOOD. I also used 1 teaspoon of brewed coffee and 1 teaspoon vanilla (instead of 2 vanilla) didn't notice the flavor, but like I said, they were the best I've ever made!

I'm not a great chef by any stretch of the imagination. I heavily rely on recipes to help me make edible food... And this recipe is more than simply "edible"! :) I was searching for a cookie recipe that did not require baking soda, and I stumbled upon this one. I had already purchased salted butter sticks... so I used them instead of the unsalted butter. I also reduced the chocolate chips to one cup and I used a combination of white chocolate chips and semi-sweet milk chocolate ones. Oh yeah... I was measuring the vanilla over the butter/sugar mixture and spilled extra in there... so these cookies had an extra blessing of vanilla flavor....

Since I'm not a baker extraordinaire, I don't have any parchment paper or fancy schmancy baking equipment/tools. I just covered a regular dark pan with some cheap-o Reynolds foil and sprayed it with olive oil. I didn't leave the dough in the fridge long... only about 20 minutes or so... but that was enough time for it to firm up a bit. I rolled the dough into balls, and then pressed them down a bit so they'd be just slightly flat. (I read that tip somewhere. I don't know how effective it is.) Anywho, I baked each batch for about 16 minutes... and whoa! Those cookies were scrumptious! They were slightly slightly crunchy on the outside (I don't mind that so much) and nice and chewy on the inside. I look forward to experimenting with this recipe by adding other super fun ingredients, like toffee bar pieces, butterscotch and peanut butter morsels. Simply put, these cookies rocked my socks!

I LOVED these! I like that they didn't flatten and they stayed plumped up. The only thing I did differently was I used 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips instead of the amount listed in the recipe. It was the perfect amount. I think a cup would be way too much for how many cookies this makes. I rolled up some put them on parchment covered sheets and put them in the fridge till I was ready to throw the next batch in and 18 minutes in my oven was PERFECT for them. *UPDATE 1/17/12* I used the trick of taking them out 2 minutes early, letting them sit on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes, and then putting them into a sealed container ASAP. Kept them soft for days.

I have tried a tone of the choc chip recipes and this is the one we like the best. I used 1 bag Hershey's Dark Choc Chips and added regular choc chips to equal 2 cups. Make sure to undercook a little for the the ultimate chewy cookie.

Love, Love, Love ! I picked this recipe because I didn't have any shortening which the other recipes call for. Very good cookie. I know I messed it up because the dough was supposed to be on the dry side and mine wasn't but they still taste great. Thanks for sharing this one ! Update: The cookies came out even better the second time around. Last time I cut the recipe in half and that's when the dough wasn't dry enough. This time I went ahead and did the regular recipe and they came out perfect. I let the dough sit in the fridge for about 20 mins before baking. Great looking cookie as well.