Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: Forty-eight to sixty 2-inch cookies
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ¼ cup light or dark brown sugar; 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened; 1 large egg; 1¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour; ⅛ teaspoon baking soda (divide ¼ teaspoon in half on a plate or other flat surface); 1 cup (one 6-ounce bag) chocolate chips; ¼ cup granulated sugar

Preparation info

Forty-eight to sixty
2 inch cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How to Bake

By Nick Malgieri

Published 1995

About

What may be just about everyone’s favorite cookie starts this group of recipes. These may be made the traditional way—as drop cookies—or also as refrigerator (slice and bake) cookies. See the Variations at the end of the recipe for this. For these cookies to be successful, take care not to overheat the dough.

Ingredients

8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
¼ cup li

Americas
United States
Cookies
Vegetarian

Method

Set racks at the middle and upper thirds of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees.
In a bowl, beat the butter with the sugars to mix, then beat in the egg until smooth.
Mix the flour and baking soda together and stir into the butter mixture, th