The Actual Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in the World*

Ingredients

• 2½ c flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 c butter (at room temperature)
• 1½ c firmly packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 12 oz semisweet chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400°F.
2. Mix flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
3. Beat butter, brown sugar, and vanilla with a mixer on high speed until well blended. Add eggs, mixing well.
4. Add flour mixture gradually to incorporate, then beat to blend well.
5. Drop batter in 2-tbsp portions about 2 inches apart on an ungreased baking sheet. [1]
6. Bake about 6-7 minutes, until edges of cookies are brown but an area about 1 inch wide in the center is still pale. If you are using two pans in the oven, switch positions at about 3 minutes.
7. Let cookies cool on pan for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack or baking mat.

Makes about 30 cookies. Which is not enough.

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*As found by Kim Walter, who has been doing her research since high school, and recently corroborated by Piera.

[1] ok, this is important: at this point I'm always like "yeah, yeah, dough on sheet, pop in oven, okay" and just wing it. For this recipe I actually measured out the cookie dough size and spaced them out on the sheet as directed, and I swear I've never made more perfect cookies. I highly recommend following steps 5-7 as directed.