THE CHEWY Chocolate Chip Cookie

For those who like Alton Brown Recipes:

Elements Wanted

• Unsalted butter – is probably the most generally used kind of butter in baking, because it permits for extra management over the quantity of salt within the recipe.
• Bread flour (2 ¼ cups)
• Kosher salt
• Baking soda – also referred to as sodium bicarbonate, is a white crystalline powder that’s generally utilized in baking as a leavening agent
• Granulated sugar –  Or  common granulated sugar, I don’t use sugar substitutes in any of my recipes but when you understand the conversions be at liberty to take action
• Gentle brown sugar – Is made by combining granulated white sugar with molasses, which provides it a brown shade and a barely totally different style than common white sugar.
• Giant egg – The most effective kind of eggs you should buy on the retailer are natural or free-range eggs, whereas others might choose eggs from particular breeds of chickens
• Entire milk – Dairy doesn’t like me in any respect so I’m going for a lactose free milk equivalent to Fairlife. It additionally has extra protein in it.
• Vanilla extract – It’s made by macerating and soaking vanilla beans in a combination of water and Vodka. Use a great pure vanilla as an alternative of the imitation vanilla extract.
• Semisweet chocolate chips – Chocolate chips are available in quite a lot of sizes, starting from mini chips to giant chunks. Use no matter you favor.
• See the recipe card under for a full record of components and measurements.

Methods to make Alton Brown’s Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie 

1. Soften the butter in a 2-quart saucepan over low warmth. Put aside to chill barely.
2. Sift collectively the flour, salt, and baking soda onto a paper plate. Pour the butter into your stand mixer’s work bowl. Add the sugar and brown sugar and beat with the paddle attachment on medium velocity for two minutes.
3. In the meantime, whisk collectively the entire egg, the egg yolk, milk and vanilla extract in a measuring cup. Cut back the mixer velocity and slowly add the egg combination. Combine till completely mixed, about 30 seconds.
4. Utilizing the paper plate as a slide, progressively combine the dry components, stopping a few occasions to scrape down the perimeters of the bowl. As soon as the flour is labored in, drop the velocity to “stir” and add the chocolate chips. Chill the dough for 1 hour.
5. Preheat the oven to 375 levels F and place racks within the high third and backside third of the oven.
6. Scoop the dough into 1 ½-ounce portion onto parchment-lined half sheet pans, 6 cookies per sheet. Bake 2 sheets at a time for quarter-hour, rotating the pans midway via. Take away from the oven, slide the parchment with the cookies onto a cooling rack and wait no less than 5 minutes earlier than devouring.

Ideas for A Chewy Cookie 

As an alternative of melting butter in a pot on the range, you’ll be able to at all times microwave the butter till it’s all melted. Fast and simpler than utilizing a pan. All the time use microwave-safe bowls. 

What makes a cookie chewy?  For Alton’s recipe, he substituted the all-purpose flour for bread flour which has extra protein. He additionally  makes use of melted butter and he even stated on this explicit episode “the darker the brown sugar, the higher!” For a chewier cookie. 

Methods to correctly retailer cookies? Retailer cookies in hermetic containers. In case your cookies start to dry out, add a chunk of bread to the container. You may freeze any leftover cookies in freezer luggage or hermetic containers as effectively. 

For those who don’t wish to bake all of the cookies without delay, simply freeze the dough and use what you want. I like to do that and form the leftover dough right into a log and tightly wrap it with saran wrap. Then you’ll be able to simply slice no matter you want and bake them within the oven.