Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

FaceBook Twitter

Chocolates are a delicacy loved by all, universally. It tastes heavenly and is a great stress buster. Research shows that consumption of limited amount of chocolate especially dark chocolate benefits the heart, lowers blood pressure and cholesterol and may also be used in curing cancer all due to a major ingredient called flavonoids. On the other hand, it also helps in enhancing the mood and contains caffeine that acts as a stimulant. Plain chocolates and recipes made out of chocolates like cakes, brownies, pastries, milkshakes, cookies, puddings and so on are all major favorites of a vast population around the world. It is a great way to bring a smile on to someone’s face when depressed and low or it is just a good excuse to indulge into it simply because you love it.

Chocolate chip cookies is one such recipe made out of chocolate that has been passed down generations and still seems to create the same child-like enthusiasm in the person that is about to devour it. Cookies traces back in history as a recipe that came across by accident while bakers were adopting a certain recipe for a cake. In order to test the required temperature of the oven they added the cake batter in small amounts and as an end result got crispy flat versions that tasted real good. Same was the case of chocolate chip cookies where chocolate bits were accidentally sprinkled on the cookie batter due to absence of cocoa ingredient, in the hope that the chocolate would melt, instead the chocolate just softened and thus chocolate chip cookie was born.

Although the ingredients are same in all the recipes that exist in the world the taste and texture of the cookies do vary accordingly. Following is a recipe for the best chocolate chip cookie and what sets it apart from the others is that the final product ends up having crispy outer edge but a soft and chewy center that melts in your mouth.

Ingredients:

1 cup (226gms) unsalted butter
3/4th cup (150gms) granulated white sugar
3/4th cup (160gms) firmly packed light brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
2 1/4th cups (295gms) all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
1 ½ cups (270gms) semi sweet chocolate chips
1 cup (100gms) nuts (walnuts, cashews)

Method:

Preheat the oven to 190 degree Celsius (375 degrees F). Keep ready the baking tray lined with parchment paper.
In a bowl, using a whisk or an electronic hand mixer beat the butter until it softens and gives a fluffy texture.
Add into the butter both the brown and white sugars and whisk it for 2 more minutes.
Add eggs one by one by mixing it in intervals. Beat well after each egg is added.
Now incorporate the vanilla and beat well until it spreads evenly in the mixture.
In a different bowl, add the flour, baking soda and salt.
Slowly and gradually add the dry powder ingredients into the whisked egg mixture and beat until well combined.
Halfway during mixing carefully add the chocolate chips and nuts all over it.
If the resulting dough seems too soft it is recommended that you use it after refrigerating it for 30 minutes.
Now by using ice cream scoops drop portions of dough onto the baking tray.
Bake for about 12-14 minutes until the edges turn golden brown.