Jacques Torresā chocolate chip cookie recipe is, in my opinion, the best chocolate chip cookie recipeš„It yields the perfect cookie. Unfortunately, perfection can be pretty fussy and time consuming. So this is my intentional attempt at second place š„
Ingredients
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temp
1 Ā½ cups (10 oz) packed brown sugar
Ā½ cup (4 oz) granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups (14 oz) all purpose flour
1 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
8 oz dark chocolate (chopped up bars, discs, chips, dealers choiceš)
Maldon Sea Salt
Instructions
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy
Mix in eggs & vanilla
In a separate bowl, whisk dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder) together
Fold dry ingredients into wet ingredients
Mix in chocolate
Chill for as long as you can.
Anywhere in the 0-72 hour range
Bake @ 350Ā° for 16-18 minutes. Flip & bang pan halfway through cooking
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Amanda
p.s apparently I have more to say about what makes a good chocolate chip cookie, so here we go:
Use high quality dark chocolate (~70% cacao)
You get what you pay for, so do yourself a favor and please overpay for some chocolate here šš» Itās worth it. I promise. Plus, I like the the way it looks / eats in the final cookie
Bang the pan when you rotate half way through cooking
This sh*t works. Specifically, it helps ensure we get twoāš»textures (crispy edge & soft center) in oneāš»cookie
Let the dough rest in fridge overnight
This is the real magic ā”ļøThe end result is a deep vanilla, caramel, almost toffy vibe. I feel like itās because the fridge dries things out, so all the delicious vanilla flavor from the extract is infused into the dough, while the liquid is dried out, but Iām not clear on how much (if any) of that is real and or scientifically accurate.
Finish with flaky sea salt
Salt is like the volume on a song, youāve got to turn it up, before you can even begin to hear itās goodness š
I'd try a second-place cookie. Will report back. There are a bunch of raw cookie mounds in one frame and then the sheet of baked ones has two. Do you bake these suckers two at a time?
This is next level