THE chocolate chip cookies

These cookies made me a lot of friends during law school. I think I brought them to a party and made them once during finals and suddenly people liked me a lot more. These are so gooey and delicious. They are addictive though, so I recommend getting them out of the house as soon as you can. I got the recipe from Annie of course. 

Ingredients:

2 cups plus 2 tbsp. all-purpose flour

½ tsp. baking soda

½ tsp. salt

12 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm

1 cup brown sugar, packed

½ cup granulated sugar

1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk

2 tsp. vanilla extract

1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Adjust oven racks to upper and lower-middle positions.  Preheat oven 325°. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. (I use Silpats...which I have talked about before, and are amazing)

2. Whisk dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, salt) together in a medium bowl; set aside.  

3. With electric mixer, or by hand, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly combined.  (I always use a mixer, I think it helps put air into the batter and helps to make the cookies chewy, this could be totally untrue - but its how I feel and its my blog.) 

4. Beat in egg, yolk, and vanilla until combined.  

5. Add dry ingredients and beat at low-speed just until combined.  Stir in chocolate chips.

6. Roll the dough into golf ball sized balls.  Holding dough ball in fingertips of both hands, pull apart into two equal halves.  With the jagged surfaces facing up, place onto cookie sheet and  leave plenty of room between the cookies. 

7. Bake for 11-14 minutes. I bake one sheet at a time and rotate the pan from the lower rack to the higher rack half way through. You could also bake 2 sheets at a time and rotate them. Its really your choice. 

8. Cool cookies on sheets before you eat 27 of them. Restrain yourself. They are delicious.