Easy, Make-at-Home, Chewy Chip Comfort Cookies

This food network Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe has been the only chocolate chip cookie recipe I have used for the last 12 years. It’s been to birthday parties, bribes for tutoring help, gifts for holidays, you name it, if it’s an event, I’ve probably brought these cookies. I’ve even used them for projects. 

I’ll tell you a not so secret change we made. We double the vanilla and use 60% dark chocolate chips. Buy the good ones, you won’t regret it. Our favorite is the Ghirardelli 60% Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips (10 oz bag). The reason we get dark chocolate is that we find these chocolate chip cookies way too sweet with anything less. 

The other thing is, if you’ve baked them until their brown on the edge, they’ll be very crunchy cookies when they cool. If you take them out when they’re just barely turning gold (see the picture) that’s the sweet point. They’re a bit underdone and finish baking on the hot pan. Alternatively, you can cut your oven off and leave them for just a few more minutes and they’ll finish while the oven is cooling. This took us way too long to figure out and we had some crunchy cookies for a while.

Now for my sustainability tip, there is compostable parchment paper. The kind I get can be reused three times, and then it can be (commercially) composted. Now I haven’t tried using it three times, mostly because I don’t like leaving the oven long enough to try it. You could also just grease the pan with butter, your preferred oil, or even better use a silicone baking mat.

My favorite time to bake these is when someone’s coming over. After making them so many times I can throw them together in about 15 minutes and be cleaning up while they’re baking. When company comes there’s warm chocolate chip cookie goodness waiting on them. It also makes the house smell amazing. 

If you are baking these cookies for a crowd, the recipe does not double very well. Instead, mix up two separate batches. It takes just a bit longer but it’s totally worth it for the results. 

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So, we at Consciously Southern want to know, what’s your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe? And what is your preferred chocolate chip brand?

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