Chocolate Chip Cookies from Urban Apron

Chocolate Chip Cookies - made dough January 1, 2022 from Urban Apron

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter

1/2 cup shortening

3/4 cup brown sugar, packed

3/4 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

2 cup chocolate chips or chunks

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter and shortening until well combined and creamy with no lumps. Add brown sugar and granulated sugar and beat until well combined.
2. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing on low speed after each addition. Add vanilla and beat until just combined.
3. Add salt, baking soda and flour, mixing on low speed, until just combined. Fold in chocolate chips.
4. Portion dough into golf-ball size dough balls, cover and chill or freeze for several hours or overnight.
5. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and evenly space dough balls. Bake 9-10 minutes. Remove from oven and let rest on baking sheets for several minutes before transferring to wire rack to cool completely.

You may see me trying out different recipes for chocolate chip cookies more often again. It's partly because I'm trying to clear out my pinterest boards (a never-ending quest) and partly because chocolate chip cookies are the most popular and requested items from deployed military service members.

If I'm going to keep making them for military care packages, I need some variety in what I'm mailing out, even if the service members will neither know nor care what recipe I'm using, lol.

Fortunately, this one did not go the way of thin, flat, spread out with abandon cookies like some of my earlier tried and true recipes have done because of the more-water-in-the-butter issue of the past few months. I don't think it was necessarily the recipe as much as I'm now just adding more flour than the recipe might call for until I'm satisfied with the texture of the cookie dough. You don't want to add too much or it'll affect the final texture and flavor of your cookie but a couple of extra tablespoons doesn't hurt if your dough is too soft and sticky.

These came out fine and are your basic, good chocolate chip cookies with crisp edges, chewy middles and a nice caramelized brown sugar flavor.