World's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

World's Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Recipe Courtesy of Good Things Catered

2 Cups plus 2 Tablespoons All-Purpose Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
12 Tablespoon (1-1/2 Sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm
1 Cup Brown Sugar, Packed
1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
1 Large Egg plus 1 Yolk
2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1-1/2 Cups Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Adjust oven racks to upper and lower - middle positions and heat oven to 325. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Whisk dry ingredients together; set aside.

With Electric Mixer or by hand, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly combined. Beat in the egg, yolk and vanilla until combined. Add dry ingredients and beat at low spead just until combined. Stir in chips.

Roll 1/2 cup of dough into a ball. Holding dough ball in fingertips of both hands, pull into 2 equal halves. Rotate halves 90 degrees and, with jagged surfaces facing up, place formed dough on cookie sheet, leaving ample room between each ball.

Bake, reversing position of cookie sheets halfway through baking, until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy (about 20 minutes in my oven).

Cool cookies on sheets until able to lift without breaking and place on wire rack to cool.

Makes about 24 cookies.

Well, I had to try these cookies since they were called the world's best chocolate chip cookies! And, while I'm not sure I would say they're the world's best, they are pretty good, if I do say so myself. I didn't like the dough - I thought it was too sweet (but that could be a good thing since it kept me from eating it!). And the cookies were pretty sweet right after coming out of the oven, too. But the next day...they were heavenly! So if you want warm chocolate chip cookies, I have a great recipe for that - e-mail me. I'm sure I'll post it one of these days. But if you're wanting delicious, gourmet type chocolate chip cookies to last you a few days, these are definitely the ones!