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[Anonymous No.20012358]

What is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe

[Anonymous No.20012360]

>>20012358
Oh you don't want my cookie recipe....

[Anonymous No.20012363]

>>20012358
the one that doesn't include vegetable oil, or vanilla extract.

[Anonymous No.20012367]

>>20012358
I just go to Crumb'l bro

[Anonymous No.20012375]

>>20012358
Monitoring thread for the recipe to use for christmas. (Never made those btw)

[Anonymous No.20012401]

>>20012358
Jacques Torres' recipe. He sells them for $5/ea even though he gives away the recipe for free.

[Anonymous No.20012431]

>>20012358
I know he is kind of a meme but the one babish makes are pretty damn good.

[Anonymous No.20012518]

Measurements are American, there's converters online if you need them.

- 8 oz butter, softened
- 4 oz white sugar
- 4 oz brown sugar
Cream it all together in a mixing bowl until consistent
- 1 egg
Mix egg into sugar butter
- 0.5 tsp baking soda mixed with 1 tsp warm water
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 0.25 tsp salt
Mix the above into sugary egg butter
- 12 oz flour
- Chocolate chips as desired
Mix a little bit at a time until everything's in there. Set oven to 375 Fahrenheit and bake cookies for 10 minutes. Everyone at work loves it when I make cookies.

[Anonymous No.20012556]

Unironically the recipe on the back of the nestle toll house chocolate chip bag

[Anonymous No.20013341]

>>20012358
https://www.foodiecrush.com/milk-bars-salted-chocolate-chip-cookies/
trust me

[Anonymous No.20013422]

>>20012358
>What is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe
That depends on the type of CC cookie you are after.
If you like a chewy cookie then Alton Brown's The Chewy is your recipe:
https://altonbrown.com/recipes/the-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookie/

If you like a huge chunky thick cookie read this bake-off recipe roundup:
https://www.thepancakeprincess.com/2020/09/16/best-copycat-levain-cookie-recipe/

If you like a standard cookie read these recipe roundups (particularly the second):
https://www.thepancakeprincess.com/2017/09/19/best-chocolate-chip-cookie-bake-off/
https://www.thepancakeprincess.com/2022/09/23/best-brown-butter-chocolate-chip-cookie-bake-off/

For me personally, I did my own head-to-head bake-off using the above & found the recipe proportions & ingredients from this recipe (particularly taking a cue from Jacques Torres in >>20012401 using ½ cake & bread flour + ½ tsp lemon juice to tenderize the dough) was the best:
https://butternutbakeryblog.com/bakery-style-chocolate-chip-cookies/
Using in conjunction with Cook's Illustrated's Stir-Wait-Stir (x3) Mix Method detailed here in Step #3:
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/4737-perfect-chocolate-chip-cookies?incode=MCSCD00L0

Ultimately, I found the six most important points in CC cookie making are:
1. Using a mix of cake/bread flour over AP flour (more cake = more tender cookie, more bread = chewy)
2. Browning the butter then letting it re-solidify before creaming it with the eggs/sugar
3. Chill the dough at least 24 hours in advance
4. Use the best quality chocolate you can reasonably buy and a mix of dark/semisweet/milk (and maybe some white too)
5. Add a tsb or 2 of instant coffee/espresso powder to the dough during the creaming stage, it won't taste coffee-ish but will set off the chocolate flavor of the chips
6. Form the dough balls into vertical cylindrical tubes on the cookie sheet and as they bake they'll flatten down into circular domes without spreading too much into thin discs

[Anonymous No.20013495]

>>20013422
what brands of flour do you recommend

[Anonymous No.20013551]

>>20013495
Since this is cookies we're talking about, and not cake or bread you don't have to be so anal about flour brands.
King Arthur is the most consistently milled-by-spec product in most grocery stores but both their AP & Bread flours are much higher protein % than average, meaning, they will develop gluten quicker and can create a tougher cookie more easily if the dough is accidentally overmixed. I personally use a sack of Gold Medal bread flour that I bought when it was on sale and I cut it with either Swan's Down or Pillsbury Softasilk cake flour (whichever is cheapest at the time).

[Anonymous No.20013574]

>>20012358
the one on the back of the package of chips.

[Anonymous No.20013621]

>>20013551
>King Reddit flour
It's literally just flour. Get whatever's cheapest.

[Anonymous No.20013850]

>>20013422
I'm genuinely starting to think that Torres' method just needs a little MSG or fish sauce to put it over the top

[Anonymous No.20013856]

>>20013341
>volumetric measurements
nah bud, I don't think so

[Anonymous No.20013866]

>>20012518
Ohhh, there he go! There go the COOKIE MAN ;)

[Anonymous No.20013868]

>>20013621
You’re dumb. Like, really fucking dumb.

[Anonymous No.20013882]

>>20012358
My grandma's

[Anonymous No.20013893]

>>20012358
This sperg’s thread looks good >>20013687

[Anonymous No.20013945]

>>20012363
What’s wrong with vanilla extract?

[Anonymous No.20013974]

>>20012518
I wish I was your coworker

[Anonymous No.20014164]

>>20012518
american measures are butterbased?????
>A lb of butter is 4 sticks
16oz in a lb, 4oz per stick
>a stick of butter is 8 tbsp
2 tbsp in an oz, 4 oz per stick

[Anonymous No.20014171]

>>20013893

[Anonymous No.20014185]

>>20012358
>coworker made cookies
>it's obvious she didn't put any salt in it
:/

[Anonymous No.20014196]

>>20014164
It's a base 4 system and it's French

[Anonymous No.20014390]

My wife makes brown butter chocolate chip cookies based on a recipe by one of the old bon appetit fags (pre-holocaust) and they're pretty fuckin cash money. They're my favorite cookie hands down, always request them for special occasions.

[Anonymous No.20014550]

>>20013422
High-effort post. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.20014643]

Ask AI

[Anonymous No.20014708]

>>20013551
Is there a point to mixing bread flour and cake flour instead of just using All Pupose? Is the protein percent the only thing that matters or is there more?

[Anonymous No.20014712]

>>20012358
For me, it's loverachelle2's cookies

[Anonymous No.20016169]

>>20014712
Are those the poop ones

[Anonymous No.20017480]

[Anonymous No.20017492]

>>20012358
Toll House, but double the vanilla, and grind some oatmeal to use in place of one of the cups of flour.