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.

Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies

Ingredients:

• 1 c salted butter, softened
• 3/4 c brown sugar
• 1/4 c sugar
• 1 (3.4 oz) pkg. instant vanilla pudding mix, dry
• 2 eggs (at room temp)
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/4 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 c milk chocolate chips
• 1 c white chocolate chips (could also substitute for more milk chocolate chips)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Stir in pudding mix (dry) and vanilla.
3. Beat in one egg at a time.
4. In a separate bowl mix together flour, baking soda and baking powder. 
5. Slowly stir into the wet ingredients. Then stir in the chocolate chips.
6. Line baking with baking mat and then spoon cookie dough onto the baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the edges are set. You want the center to look a little underdone. Let sit on pan for 2 minutes, and then remove to a cooling rack.

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Posted by Emilee