Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 2 h 35 min
Yield: Makes 18 big cookies or 45 mini cookies
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 250 g (9 oz/1 cup) unsalted butter, softened; 2 pinches salt; 50 g (1¾ oz) chopped macadamia nuts or walnuts (or 50 g/1¾ oz extra pieces of chocolate); 125 g (4½ oz) light brown sugar (or 120 g/4¼ oz caster (superfine) sugar + 1 teaspoon molasses); 400 g (14 oz/2⅔ cups) plain (all-purpose) flour; 1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract; 200 g (7 oz) chocolate, coarsely chopped into chunks (or 250 g/9 oz chocolate chips for the mini ones); 1 teaspoon baking powder; 125 g (4½ oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon fine sea salt (optional)

Preparation info

Makes
18
big cookies

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
3 hr

Appears in

New York Cult Recipes

By Marc Grossman

Published 2013

About

I use the same basic recipe to make two versions of this classic cookie: an extra-large one, overloaded with huge and irregular chunks of chocolate and another, mini-sized one, with chocolate chips.

Ingredients

Wet Ingredients

250 g (9 oz/1 cup) unsalted butter, softened
125

Method

The Dough

Beat the butter and sugars in a food processor or by hand until light and creamy. Add the other wet ingredients, beating constantly until smooth. Combine the dry ingredients — if making mini cookies, substitute the coarsely chopped chocolate with chocolate chips and omit the nuts. Combine the two mixtures until a dough forms. Shape into a ball, co