By Jasna in cooking —

Chocolate chip cookies

"R-rated", "adult" size, using dark chocolate, resulting in gooey inside and light brown outside.

This is my go-to recipe, riffed from my favorite cooking YouTuber, Brian Lagerstrom. My version cuts the ingredients in half (since I'm typically just making enough for ~5 days of cookies, 1 cookie a day per person, for 2 people) and isn't all that precise in the weight of each cookie. I used to weigh them precisely, but over time didn't care for the effort as a home cook.

Ingredients

Makes about 10 cookies

  • 1 stick of room temperature butter
  • 50g granulated white sugar
  • 100g dark brown sugar
  • 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk
  • 2-4g vanilla extract
  • 165g all purpose flour
  • 1 bar (4oz) nice dark chocolate
    • I don't normally like dark chocolate, but like it in these cookies.
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1/8 tsp baking powder
  • 3.5g salt
  • flakey salt for topping

Instructions

  1. Add butter and sugars together in a mixing bowl. With a paddle attachment, cream on medium high for 4-5 min.
  2. Add egg + yolk + vanilla extract. Cream on high for 1 min. Scrape the batter from the sides of the bowl occasionally with a spatula.
  3. Add flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Mix on low for 30 sec.
  4. Roughly chop your bar of chocolate into small, uneven pieces with a knife and cutting board. Slide the chocolate into a salad spinner bowl or colander (holes bigger than a strainer. Shake out the fine pieces. (You can just eat those or reserve them for garnish, other purposes.)
  5. Fold ~3/4ths of the bigger chocolate pieces into your mixing bowl, leaving about 15-20 pieces in reserve.
  6. Sprinkle a few pieces of chocolate from your reserve into the middle of an ice cream scoop. With the same scoop, scoop a ball of dough out and place it onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
    1. My cookies are about 3.5-4oz each. I just eyeball them by size.
  7. Repeat this process about 9 more times for 10 cookies, or until you run out of dough.
  8. Place the sheet(s) of cookie dough in the refrigerator for at least 3-4 hours or overnight, so that the butter and dough solidify a little.

To bake the cookies:

  1. These temperatures work for my household: pre-heat a conventional oven at around 385 degrees Fahrenheit. Or if I'm using an Ooni Volt pizza oven, 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  2. Prepare a separate baking sheet with parchment paper. Place the cookies you want to bake onto that sheet, and sprinkle a little bit of flakey salt on top.
  3. Place the cookies into the oven. Let them bake for about 12-17 minutes, depending on your oven strength and how brown you want your cookies to be.
  4. Repeat over multiple days until you run out. Try to eat your dough within a week!
    1. I reuse the same parchment paper and sheet each day to reduce waste and simplify my routine.

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