Chocolate Chip Cookies with and without the Chocolate Chips

Who doesn't love chocolate chip cookies? Well apparently my friend Kerry doesn't. Her favorite cookie is a chocolate chip cookie without the chocolate chips because she really likes the brown sugar thats used in chocolate chip cookies. I owe her some cookies after winning a contest for the dance organization that we are both a part of so I decided it was time to make them for her. I also made quite a few with chocolate chips for my roommates and me. They cookies were absolutely amazing. I made several batches so I could spread them around the city of Madison to all of my friends. For sure the best recipe for chocolate chip cookies that I have made so far. 

Ingredients:

2 cups plus 2 tbsp. all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

12 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm

1 cup brown sugar, packed

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (unless you don't like chocolate chips like Kerry)

Directions:

Adjust oven racks to upper and lower-middle positions. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.

Whisk dry ingredients together in a medium bowl; set aside. With electric mixer, or by hand, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly combined. Beat in egg, yolk, and vanilla until combined. Add dry ingredients and beat at low-speed just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.

Roll a scant half-cup of dough into a ball. Holding dough ball in fingertips of both hands, pull apart into two equal halves. Rotate halves 90 degrees and, with jagged surfaces facing up, place formed dough onto cookie sheet, leaving ample room between each ball. Bake, reversing position of cookie sheets halfway through baking until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy (approximately 11-14 minutes). Do not overbake.

Cool cookies on sheets until they are cool enough to lift without breaking. Transfer to a wire rack to completely cool.

Source: Recipe from Annie's Eats