After a long day at school or practice, my favorite thing to do is bake. I haven’t done it in quite a while due to my increasingly busy schedule, but nevertheless, this chocolate chip cookie recipe is perfect. As someone who doesn’t particularly enjoy cookies or sweets in general, these cookies are different. Perhaps it’s the smell of the browned butter, or the mixing of chocolate into the soft dough, but when they come out of the oven, all my problems seem to melt away.
Ingredients:
¾ cups of butter
1 cup of light brown sugar
¼ cups white sugar
1 large egg yolk
1 whole egg
1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
1 ¾ cups of spooned and leveled all purpose flour
¾ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
As many chocolate chips as you want
Instructions:
- Start by putting your butter on low heat on the stove. It’ll start to bubble up, but wait until it has turned into a golden brown color, then add to a mixing bowl.
- Add in your light brown sugar and white sugar and mix until just combined.
- Add in your egg yolk, whole egg, and vanilla extract. This is quite a lot of vanilla, but it’ll be great in the end!
- Next, add your flour, baking soda, and salt. Mix until just combined.
- Then, add your chocolate chips. Technically, the recipe calls 2 cups of chocolate chips, but I add MUCH more than that.
- After adding the chocolate chips, roll out all of your cookies into balls and place them into the fridge for around 30 minutes. Personally, I am lazy and just put the entire bowl in the fridge and take it out after 30 minutes, which also works. Setting the cookies in the fridge makes them taste a lot better in the end and allows all the ingredients to settle together.
- While the cookies are sitting in the fridge, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Lastly, place the cookies in the oven for 11-12 minutes, or until they are golden brown on the edges.
Disclaimer: The cookies will take less or more time in the oven depending on the size of them. When in doubt, take them out when they look a little pale to avoid burning, but you can also test out a batch to see how long you should leave them in there.