Another Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe -- All Butter
Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies made without shortening. See my note if you'd like to make the mini" version.
Servings 32 Cookies
Cost 5
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups unbleached AP flour (220 grams)
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, room temperature (114 grams)
- ½ cup light brown sugar (100 grams)
- ½ cup granulated sugar (98 grams)
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 large egg, bring to room temperature (50 grams)
- 1 ⅓ cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a couple of cookie sheets with parchment.
- Sift or thoroughly whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
- Cream butter and both sugars with an electric mixer; Add egg and vanilla and beat until egg is mixed in.
- Add flour mixture and stir until incorporated. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Drop by rounded teaspoons onto the parchment lined cookie sheets and bake for 12-15 minutes (or longer) or until the edges start to brown.
- Let cool on the baking sheet for about 3 minutes, then carefully transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Notes
If you have a scale it doesn't matter, but if you are measuring by volume, make sure to really stir and aerate the flour thoroughly before measuring. I always weigh out 220 grams. Dough should not be too dry.
For mini chocolate chip cookies, preheat the oven to 300 instead of 350. Make tiny marble size rounds and bake for 18 to 20 minutes.
If your cookies still don't turn out crunchy, swap out about half of the butter for shortening. Easiest way is to use 4 tablespoons of butter (2 oz) and 4 tablespoons of shortening (1.7 oz). Shortening weighs a little less because it has less water.
