How To Make Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Summary: This guide teaches you how to make the ultimate chocolate chip cookies by mastering the properties of key ingredients such as sugar, flour, fat, and chocolate. Follow these steps to achieve cookies with the perfect balance of flavor and texture.

Materials Needed

  • white sugar
  • dark brown sugar
  • all-purpose flour
  • bread flour
  • melted butter
  • egg
  • egg yolk
  • chocolate chips
  • dark chocolate chunks
  • vanilla
  • espresso powder
  • salt
  • baking soda

Outcome: Perfect chocolate chip cookies with a balance of flavor and texture

Steps

Step 1: Prepare dry ingredients

Sift all-purpose flour, bread flour, salt, and baking soda together.

Sifting flour, salt, and baking soda together.

Sifting flour, salt, and baking soda together.

Step 2: Make brown butter

Melt butter in a saucepan, boil until milk solids turn brown, then cool and measure.

Butter boiling in a saucepan and turning brown.

Butter boiling in a saucepan and turning brown.

Step 3: Mix sugars and flavorings

Combine white sugar, dark brown sugar, vanilla, and espresso powder.

Mixing sugars with vanilla and espresso powder.

Mixing sugars with vanilla and espresso powder.

Step 4: Combine butter and sugars

Add cooled brown butter to the sugar mixture and cream together.

Adding brown butter to sugar mixture and creaming them together.

Adding brown butter to sugar mixture and creaming them together.

Step 5: Add eggs

Incorporate an egg and an egg yolk into the mixture.

Adding egg and egg yolk to the mixture.

Adding egg and egg yolk to the mixture.

Step 6: Incorporate dry ingredients

Gradually add the sifted dry ingredients to the wet mixture.

Adding dry ingredients to the wet mixture in parts.

Adding dry ingredients to the wet mixture in parts.

Step 7: Fold in chocolate

Gently fold in chocolate chips and dark chocolate chunks.

Folding chocolate chips and chunks into the dough.

Folding chocolate chips and chunks into the dough.

Step 8: Chill dough

Optionally chill the dough overnight for enhanced flavor.

Placing dough in the fridge to chill.

Placing dough in the fridge to chill.

Step 9: Bake cookies

Scoop dough onto a baking sheet and bake until golden brown.

Scooping dough onto a baking sheet.

Scooping dough onto a baking sheet.