Huge Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies

These HUGE, thick chocolate chip cookies are the sort you’d discover entrance and heart in a bakery case. My recipe takes simply quarter-hour to prep earlier than chilling and yields an unimaginable, gourmand chocolate chip cookie. Recipe features a how-to video!

Bakery-Impressed Chocolate Chip Cookies

We’ve made large and mini chocolate chip cookies, skinny & crispy chocolate chip cookies, and even the WORST chocolate chip cookies… however these thick chocolate chip cookies are a primary! One other gourmet-style cookie, these tremendous thick and fats cookies are tender, tender, melt-in-your mouth, and oh-so-chocolatey.

They’re the kind you’d spy behind bakery glass and simply wouldn’t give you the chance to withstand ordering one… or a dozen.

However earlier than we get began, it’s so necessary that I notice that whereas they’re thick, these cookies are NOT cakey (dry, cakey cookies are unwelcome right here!).

With the intention to obtain this tough steadiness of melt-in-your-mouth-ness AND pillowy thickness, it’s crucial you don’t unintentionally overmeasure your flour, or your cookies might really find yourself cakey. I like to recommend utilizing a kitchen scale to be secure, however if you happen to don’t have a type of (you should really get one), take a look at my submit on methods to (correctly) measure flour!

What You Want

Most of those substances can be fairly acquainted, however let’s chat about a couple of that may be custom-made to your liking:

• Brown sugar. You should utilize both gentle or darkish brown sugar, or do what I do and use equal components of every. Personally, I discover that utilizing all darkish brown sugar yields a cookie that’s only a bit too wealthy.
• Cake flour. For somebody who doesn’t stand for cakey cookies, I’ve discovered cake flour has made its approach into an terrible lot of my cookie recipes, not too long ago. From my blueberry muffin cookies and occasional cake cookies to my Lofthouse cookies, I’ve discovered that, whereas not a typical cookie ingredient, cake flour contributes to the thick, tender texture we’re going for right here. It creates a superb crumb that basically does soften in your mouth. You may substitute all-purpose flour (directions beneath), however the texture received’t be the identical.
• Vanilla extract. I really like utilizing my selfmade vanilla extract in these cookies. By the best way… if you happen to begin making a batch of selfmade vanilla now, it is going to be prepared simply in time for vacation baking 😉
• Chocolate. Chocolate chips work nice (go for semisweet), however I actually get pleasure from utilizing 8-10 oz of chopped darkish chocolate or semisweet chocolate bars. The bars simply soften nicer and depart various sizes of chocolate all through the dough.
• Cornstarch. Okay, this one isn’t customizable or negotiable, however it’s extremely necessary and due to this fact price mentioning! Cornstarch helps with the thickness of those cookies (it prevents them from spreading an excessive amount of) and their melt-in-your-mouth (I’ve repeated this phrase so usually solely as a result of it’s so related, I promise) tenderness. Don’t skip it!

SAM’S TIP: Add the dry substances step by step! In the event you add the flour , you should have a troublesome time mixing the whole lot collectively and your dough can be dryer and tougher to work with than crucial (and that is already a stiff dough).

Keep in mind, that is simply an outline of the substances I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!

How you can Make Thick Chocolate Chip Cookies

1. Cream collectively the softened butter and sugars till gentle and fluffy.
2. Add the eggs and vanilla and stir effectively to mix.
3. Whisk collectively the dry substances in a separate bowl, then step by step add them to the moist substances.
4. Fold within the chocolate till totally integrated, then cowl the dough and let it chill within the fridge for half-hour.

5. Scoop ⅓-cup sized scoops onto a parchment lined baking sheets, spacing a minimum of 2″ aside.
6. Bake for 13-14 minutes at 375F or till the perimeters look barely golden brown. The facilities will nonetheless be a bit underdone and fragile while you take away them from the oven, so let the cookies cool utterly on the baking sheet earlier than having fun with.

SAM’S TIP: I take advantage of an ice cream scoop for this dough since we’re going for big chocolate chip cookies. You may at all times drop the dough proper on the baking sheet, however I prefer to roll mine into clean balls to make them extra uniform first.

Often Requested Questions

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