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Rested chocolate chip cookies.

A chilled dough makes thick chocolate-chip cookies with a soft center.

Makes
About 20 cookies
Hands-on
25 minutes
Total time
About 13 hours with overnight chilling
Effort
Easy
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For About 20 cookies.

All-purpose flour

281 g

Amazon Grocery all-purpose flour, 2 lb

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Starting a sourdough culture requires extra flour for repeated feeds; buy enough beyond the bread dough quantity.

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KEEP IT SIMPLE

Tools & supplies

Two bowls and whisk

Mix dry and wet ingredients.

WEPSEN stainless mixing bowls with spatula and baking tools

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Kitchen scale

Portion 50 g dough balls.

Etekcity digital kitchen scale, 11 lb capacity

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STEP BY STEP

Make it

  1. Mix

    Whisk flour, soda, cornstarch and salt. Separately whisk butter and sugars, then egg, yolk and vanilla.

  2. Combine

    Stir wet into dry, then fold in chips. Cover and chill overnight.

  3. Shape

    Heat oven to 325°F. Let dough soften 15 minutes. Form about 50 g tall balls on lined trays, three inches apart.

  4. Bake

    Bake 13–14 minutes until edges are lightly browned. Centers remain soft but set as they cool.

  5. Cool

    Leave on tray 10 minutes, then move to rack.

Good to know

  • Dough must be chilled; warm dough spreads more.
  • This batch size uses 50 g portions; larger cookies need different spacing.

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Bakery chocolate chip cookies

Finished cookies skip overnight dough resting.

Pepperidge Farm Montauk soft chocolate chunk cookies, 8.6 oz

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Made with milk-chocolate chunks rather than semisweet chips.

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