I was searching the web for "the best chocolate chip cookie recipe" and I came across this blog. Her recipe looked really good, so I decided to try it out.
As I was reading through the ingredients, I came across something a bit strange.. and I was intrigued. Turns out the recipe calls for yeast and browned butter.
The cookies came out nice and the yeast gives the cookies a nice soft texture. You can taste the browned butter, it gives the cookies a nutty flavor.
The person who originally created these cookies claimed that they were the best chocolate chip cookies ever... they are very good.. but I've tried enough chocolate chip cookie recipes out in my day and I wouldn't call these the best.
But these cookies are quite the beasts!
"Best" Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
1/2 C melted browned butter plus 1/4 C butter room temp (FOR LATER USE!)
2 1/4 C all-purpose flour
3/4 ts baking soda
1 ts active dry yeast
1 ts salt, plus additional for sprinkling
1 C brown sugar
1/2 C sugar
2 eggs
2 ts vanilla
1 C chocolate chips
Bake on 375 for 10-13 minutes
Make your browned butter.
While the browned butter is cooling a bit, sift your dry ingredients (flour,baking soda,yeast, and salt)
In a larger bowl cream the room temp butter that hasn't been browned and sugars until crumbly.
Add the melted browned butter that you made earlier and cream for about a minute.
Add the eggs and vanilla and cream until smooth.. the mixture will look nice and silky at this point.
Gently add dry ingredients and beat until incorporated.
Fold in chocolate chips.
Put the dough in a zip lock and chill for an hour, the zip lock is good because the bag doesn't take up as much room as a giant metal bowl.. and you can do all of the dishes while the dough is chilling. It also makes it easier to scoop the dough,after it's chilled.
I used 2 scoops of dough from my cookie dough scoop in order to form one cookie, then I flattened the dough down a bit and sprinkled some sea salt onto the cookie dough.
Room temp butter and sugars.
Added the liquid browned butter.
Added egg and vanilla
Results of egg and vanilla added to the sugar and butter mixture.
Finished dough, before chilled.
Chilled dough.
Ready for the oven.
