Cookies N Milk

Inspired by this scene of “The Santa Clause”

Difficulty: Medium | Time: 1 hour | Yields: About 2 dozen small cookies

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This is my personally developed chocolate chip cookie recipe. These cookies always come out nice and thick and gooey. They’re perfect for any time of the year, but they’re the best especially around the holidays. I hope you enjoy them!

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Ingredients:

• 8oz butter, browned

• 2 large eggs

• 117g granulated sugar (1/2 cups)

• 175g brown sugar (1cup)

• 9mL vanilla extract (2 1/4tsp)

• 383g all purpose flour (3cups)

• 50g cake flour (1/3cups + 2 1/2 Tbsp)

• 4g cornstarch (1tsp)

• 10g baking powder (2 1/2tsp)

• 1/4tsp baking soda

• 2g salt (1/2tsp)

• 450g chocolate chips (2 2/3cups) *(1)

• (optional) flaky salt, for topping

• (optional) milk, for dipping the cookies

Directions:

Brown the butter:

1. Place the butter in a light colored pan and melt the butter over medium high heat. Stir continually until the butter turns an amber color and smells nutty, about 5-8 minutes.

2. Pour the butter into a bowl and set aside to cool to room temp.

Make the cookies:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degree F. Line a few baking sheets with parchment.

2. In the bowl of a stand mixer, or in a large bowl with an electric hand mixer, cream together the browned butter and both sugars on high speed until light in color and fluffy, about 5-8 minutes.

3. Add in the eggs and vanilla and beat on medium high speed until fully incorporated. Scrape the sides of the bowl as needed.

4. Add in the dry ingredients and mix together on low speed. Stop mixing just once all the flour streaks disappear.

5. Add in the chocolate chips and mix on low speed until evenly dispersed.

6. Using a 2Tbsp cookie scoop *(2), scoop the cookie dough and place the scooped dough on the prepared baking sheets.

7. Bake the cookie dough for 10-12 minutes. The cookies won’t spread much and will stay pretty rounded and thick in the oven.

8. Remove from the over and let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes.

9. Transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool to room temp (or just enjoy them warm out of the oven… yummmm).

10. Dip the cookies in milk and enjoy!

Notes:

1. *I use a mixture of semi-sweet chocolate chips and dark chocolate chunks.

2. *You can also make the cookies bigger if you’d like!

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