Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe by Kristyne McDougle, Lorain, Ohio
First place, Cookies & Pastries (Chocolate Chip Cookie), 2017
Baking temperature: 350 degrees
Baking time: 10-14 minutes
Yield: 50 cookies
Ingredients
- 4 c all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ t baking powder
- 1 ¼ t baking soda
- 2 t salt
- 2 ½ sticks of salted butter, softened
- 1 ½ c brown sugar, light or dark
- 1 ½ c granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ lbs. of Ghiradelli 60% cacao chocolate chips
Instructions
- Sift together flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda
- In a stand mixer, cream together butter and both sugars, until fluffy, about 5 minutes
- Slowly add 1/3 of the flour mixture, mix till combined
- Add 1 egg, and mix until just combined
- Remove bowl from mixer and fold in chocolate chips
- Chill dough for 8, up to 24 hours
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Scoop 1 to 1 ½ inch balls of dough onto parchment covered baking sheets
- Bake for 10-14 minutes, till lightly golden
- Cool on cookie sheet for 10 minutes, then remove cookies to wire rack to cool completely
