Well, we certainly could say that chocolate chip cookies have a way of getting under our skin!!! Yes, they are intoxicating!
Here are my very favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes -- and I am a big fan! A great American classic with an irresistible French touch! Straight from my kitchen in France…
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipes
Preparation Time: about 25 minutes
Cooking Time: about 15 minutes per baking tray
Refrigeration Time: at least 1 hour
Ingredients: (about 50 cookies)
2 Eggs
5 oz. Granulated Sugar
7 oz. Brown Sugar
7 oz. Butter
3 cups Flour (sifted)
11 oz. Semi-Sweet Baking Chocolate (or your favorite high-quality dark chocolate)
Pinch of Salt
1 tbsp. Yeast
1 tbsp. Vanilla Extract
How to Make It:
1. In a bowl, whisk eggs, progressively add sugar, brown sugar, salt, and vanilla. Keep whisking until batter is smooth but frothy.
2. Mix flour and yeast.
3. Melt butter.
4. Slowly add, alternatively, butter and flour to batter, stirring with wooden spoon. Keep stirring until homogenous.
5. Break chocolate into pieces, and carefully stir into batter, trying to get the chocolate as evenly distributed as possible.
6. Put batter in refrigerator for 1 hour, or more. Preheat oven to 350°F.
7. Butter a baking tray, make small balls with batter (use a teaspoon for help), and place them on baking tray. Make sure that you leave enough space in between cookies.
8. Bake for 12-20 minutes (depending on how mushy or browned you want them) at 350°F.
Voilà!
Tips:
1. It is essential to put the batter back in the refrigerator while baking other batches. Don't leave it out at room temperature for too long.
2. Once you have taken cookies out of oven, remove them immediately from the hot baking tray, and place them on a rack to cool. Cookies left to cool on a hot baking tray dry out and get much too hard. Yuck!