Sometimes, I get really carried away with cravings for specific foods. Prime example: chocolate chip cookies. Who doesn't like chocolate chip cookies? And I know that everyone always talks about the "best" chocolate chip cookie, whether it best the New York Time's best chocolate chip cookie recipe, of the "world's best" chocolate chip cookie recipe, or maybe some famous chef's version of the best chocolate chip cookie recipe. But for me, this one is it.It's taken some tweaking and some little edits here and there, but this is now my constant go-to recipe, my version of "the best chocolate chip cookies."
A lot of the measurements are by weight, and seriously if you don't have a digital scale, stop reading this sentence right now and go get one. Okay, are we all good? Because digital scales will change the way you bake. First of all, measuring your ingredients by weight is far more accurate and allows for more precision in baking. One hundred grams of flour will always be one hundred grams. But one cup of flour on one day might be more than the next day, depending on how well sifted the flour is. So please, use a digital scale. Also, less things to wash! Just place a bowl on your scale, zero it, add one ingredient, zero it, add your next ingredient, and so one. Easy peasy.
Now about the actual recipe: it has molasses and brown sugar which makes it chewy, it has just enough depth from whole wheat flour (although you can ditch this if you want and just use the all purpose), it has just enough salt, and these cookies taste delicious even when you bake them the same day that you make the dough. I stopped believing that was true of cookies for a while. I was making batches and batches of cookies, baking half immediately and half on the next day and all the recipes I tested did not taste as good if you didn't chill the dough. This recipe though? These cookies are delicious. And, these cookies taste good hot. Because honestly, I've found that most cookies don't taste good hot. Most cookies are way better after you've let them cool. These babies are tasty all the time. Basically, I'm repeating myself over and over again. This recipe is wonderful and these cookies are delightful.
More importantly, I've included in the recipe below, all of the notes that I put into my recipe when sending it to my sister who has previously messed up break-and-bake chocolate chip cookies. If you follow all my notes in the recipe, you will be golden. You will look like a pro. So be kind to yourself and your loved one: make these. Bake these. Eat these. You will find happiness.
