Chocolate chip cookies, built in parallel
Crisp edges, soft middles, two sheets in the oven at once. A dependable everyday cookie, with an optional 30-minute chill that makes it taste like caramel.
- yield
- Makes about 30 cookies
- active
- 25 min
- total
- 1 h 15 min
- oven
- 190°C / 375°F
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Ingredients
Method
- Heat the oven to 190°C / 375°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment.
- Beat the butter, both sugars, and the salt until fluffy and lighter in color, about 3 minutes with a mixer.
- Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla.
- Whisk the flour and baking soda together, then mix them in on low speed just until no dry flour remains. Stir in the chocolate.
- Optional but worth it: chill the dough for 30 minutes. The cookies spread less and taste more like caramel.
- Scoop 2-tablespoon balls about 5 cm (2 in) apart. Bake 9 to 11 minutes, swapping and rotating the sheets halfway, until the edges are golden and the centers still look a little underdone.
- Sprinkle with flaky salt. Cool on the sheets 5 minutes, then move to a rack. They finish setting as they cool.
Notes
- Measuring flour by cup: spoon it into the cup and level it with a knife. Scooping straight from the bag packs in about 20 percent more, and the cookies come out cakey.
- Dough keeps 3 days in the fridge. Bake straight from cold, adding a minute.
#!/usr/bin/env bash# chocolate-chip-cookies.sh: makes about 30. builds in parallel.preheat --oven 375F & # 190C. runs in the background.line sheets:2 --with parchmentcream butter:225g brown-sugar:150g sugar:100g salt:1tsp --for 3mfor egg in 1 2; do beat-in egg; donebeat-in vanilla:2tspwhisk flour:280g baking-soda:1tsp | mix-in --speed low --until "no dry flour"fold-in chocolate:300gchill dough --for 30m || echo "skipped chill: cookies will spread. you knew this." >&2scoop dough --size 2tbsp --spacing 5cm --onto sheetswait # for the oven. the beep is not the oven.bake --sheets 2 --parallel --for 10m --rotate-at 5m \ --until "edges golden, centers underdone"top flaky-saltcool --on-sheet 5m && move --to rack# The script is the joke. The ingredients and method are the recipe.
See also: weigh(1), preheat(1), butter(1)