Tis the season, and cookies are a huge part of it. Chocolate chip cookies are a great treat anytime of year, but during the winter months, it really is their time to shine.
Many young children carry the memory of placing several homemade chocolate chip cookies on a plate next to some milk for Santa Claus.
There are several different recipes to try for chocolate chip cookies, and each has their strengths.
What is your goal for the perfect chocolate chip cookie? Is it to have a delightfully chewy inside? If so, I have just the recipe for you. Check it out below
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- 1 egg
- 1/3 tsp salt
- ½ cup brown sugar
- ¾ cup unsalted butter
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/3 cup white sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1/3 tsp baking soda
Together, these ingredients make a batch of chewy chocolate chip cookies that are perfect for Santa on Christmas eve, or for you when you need a well-deserved Christmas snack. Down below are the instructions.
Your first step
Before you do any precooking, preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Doing so will save you a lot of time later.
Getting it together
Mix your dry ingredients together first. This includes the flower, backing soda and salt. Sifting it will get you the best results but mixing it with a fork will also work.
Next, combine your other ingredients. This would be the egg, butter, sugar, brown sugar, yolk, and vanilla extract.
After that, you’ll want to combine the two. A little heads up: speaking from experience, you don’t want to dump in all the dry ingredients at once, unless you want flour to fly everywhere. Add in a little at a time and mix it well, before adding more.
Once the batter is ready, add the chocolate chips and mix the batter so that they are evenly dispersed.
Next, take the dough and form small balls and place them apart evenly on your cookie sheet. Once your cookies are assembled, place them in the oven and bake them for about 20 minutes.
This recipe yields about six servings. If you have guests coming over, or if you just want a lot of cookies, feel free to double, triple, or even quadruple the batch as you see fit. You can never have enough cookies.
As children, we take delight in making cookies. Many of us can remember being in the kitchen and making cookies with our grandmother. How much of the dough ended up in our stomachs instead of on the sheet may be debatable, but what isn’t is the good time we will always remember.
Many things change as we become adults, but our delight in homemade cookies isn’t one of them.
No matter how old we are, we will more than likely enjoy the smell of cookies being baked in the oven as it floods through our house.
If chewy cookies are your thing, please give this a recipe a try and enjoy it!