Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yield: Makes About 16 Cookies
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: Room-temperature butter for preparing pans (optional); 6 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped by hand or in a food processor into ¼-inch chunks; ¾ cup coarsely chopped walnuts; ½ teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 egg yolk; ¼ cup granulated sugar; ¼ cup firmly packed brown sugar; ¾ cup butter, at room temperature, sliced; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon baking soda; 1 cup flour

Preparation info

Makes About
16
Cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking

By James Peterson

Published 2007

About

Most bakers make chocolate chip cookies with the chocolate chips sold at the supermarket. To take your cookies up a notch, chop a piece of high-quality bittersweet chocolate for the chips. This recipe contains more butter and walnuts than the classic Toll House recipe.

Ingredients

1 cup flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon

Americas
United States
Cookies
Vegetarian
Wedding/Marriage

Method

In a bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt. In a large bowl, using a wooden spoon or a stand mixer (fitted with paddle blade) on medium speed or handheld mixer on high speed, cream together the butter and both sugars for about 7 minutes by hand or 5 minutes with the mixer, or until smooth and creamy. Beat in the egg yolk and vanilla. Add the flour mixture and work it in with a wo