Chocolate Chip Cookies from Baking with Blondie

Chocolate Chip Cookies - made dough August 13, 2022 from Baking with Blondie

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold and cubed

1 cup brown sugar, packed

1/4 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs, cold

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (can use half cake flour; I used 1 cup cake flour, 2 1/2 cups all-purpose)

1 teaspoon cornstarch

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup large chocolate chips

1 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips

sea salt for garnish, optional

1. Preheat oven to 410 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter for 1 minute until light and fluffy. Add brown sugar and granulated sugar, mixing on high speed for 3 minutes. Scrape down sides and bottom of bowl to keep mixture even textured.
3. Add vanilla and eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
4. Add flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt, mixing on low speed until just combined.
5. Reserve 1/8 cup of chocolate chips and fold in the remaining chocolate chips. Portion dough evenly into 8 balls. Hand press reserved chocolate chips over each dough ball and sprinkle with sea salt if desired.
6. Bake for 9-10 minutes until slightly golden. Remove from oven and let rest on baking sheets for 5 minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

I enjoyed all the recipes I've tried from Baking with Blondie's blog so it's almost surprising I waited this long to try out her chocolate chip cookie recipe. 

It's the same base recipe as the other ones so of course it turned out the way I liked and of course I like this cookie. It's really more for people who like big, thick, chewy cookies. Not to mention people who have the patience to wait until this cools to room temperature or even the next day. Yeah, I know, who does that?  But for my taste and texture preference, that's what I recommend. The picture above was taken when the cookie was freshly baked and had cooled to the cool side of lukewarm. Looks like raw cookie dough, right? That's not my thing.

But this picture above was taken when the cookie was fully cool, hours later. This ^^ picture shows the texture I prefer the most. Not mushy but still soft and chewy. Perfect.