Big Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've said it many (many) times on this blog that cookies are my favorite food. And truth be told I really don't think it gets any better than a big, chewy, buttery chocolate chip cookie. Does it? I've never met a chocolate chip cookie I didn't like but I certainly have my preferences and these big and tasty beauties are at the top of my list as far as yummy chocolate chip cookies goes. I have several great cc cookie recipes but this is the best as far a flavor goes. The recipe doesn't make many because hello you're making 5'' diameter cookies but you could certainly scale the size down if you needed to feed a crowd. Or if you and your husband plan on consuming each delicious cookie all by yourselves, over the course of a weekend, then make em' big, it'll save you from having to walk to the kitchen too many times to get another. Just sayin'.

 

Big Chocolate Chip Cookies

 

Ingredients:

 

12 Tablespoons butter, melted

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg + 1 egg yolk

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

2 cups + 2 Tablespoons flour

2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

 

Preheat oven to 325 degrees and move both oven racks to the middle two shelves in the oven. Mix the melted butter, brown sugar and sugar together in a mixing bowl until thoroughly combined.

Add egg and egg yolk and vanilla. Mix salt, baking soda and flour together, gradually add it to the wet ingredients until few streaks remain, add the chocolate chips and finish mixing dough. Using a 1/4 measuring cup shape 1/4 cup sized dough balls onto a greased cookie sheet. Leaving 2 - 3 inches between cookies and sides of pan, I usually fit about 6 - 8 cookies per sheet pan. Bake in preheated oven for 13 - 15 minutes, rotating pans half way through. (At 7 minutes, into the bake rotate pans by switching the bottom pan to the top position and vise versa and rotate the cookie sheets so that the front cookies are now at the back of the oven and vise versa.) Remove cookies from the oven when slight browning starts around the edges of the cookies (they may still look a little doughy in the center, don't worry they'll set up) and let cool on a cooling rack. Makes about 18 BIG chewy cookies.