New Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

This recipe for Single. Best. Cookie. Ever is from The Gourmandise School in Santa Monica. Every once in awhile they have a tray of them for students and we all go nuts. Now that we are on quarantine, I've been making them. I'm a sucker for dessert in the morning, instead of after dinner, so I usually have one (or two) for breakfast with my coffee. They are so chewy and delicious.

I have been making with a combo of spelt flour and all purpose flour. Next time I will try with rye flour and all purpose flour. They say that version is delicious too. 

Single Best Cookie Ever

The Gourmandise School

Prep time: 

15 minutes

Cook time:

12 minutes

Ingredients

2 sticks of butter (unsalted preferably and can be straight from the fridge!)

1 cup packed brown sugar

1 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup dark chocolate pieces
1 cup milk chocolate pieces

1 1/2 t baking powder

1 t baking soda

1 t salt (omit if using salted butter)

3 cups whole grain flour (I use 1 cup spelt flour and 2 cups regular all purpose flour)
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Maldon sea salt (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350.

Cream butter with the brown and white sugar until it looks fluffy with a hand held mixer, a stand up mixer with paddle attachment or a large heavy bowl with a wooden spoon.

Add your eggs and scrape the bowl well. Keep mixing for 1 more minute and add the chocolate pieces and nuts. Mix until well combined.

Add dry ingredients to the butter mixture and mix until just combined.

Shape your cookies on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Scoop these big - they eat like a meal. Bake at 350 until golden brown on the edges (about 8 minutes for medium cookies and 10-15 minutes for larger ones). 

Let them finish cooking and cooling on the cookie sheet - no need to transfer to a cooling rack. Sprinkle with Maldon sea salt (optional).