National Cookie Day

I said that this wasn’t going to be a food blog, and it isn’t, but I was informed that today is National Cookie Day and therefore I felt it only fitting that I repost my famous chocolate chip cookie recipe. I actually made them last night, totally unaware of the holiday eve.

My cookies don’t always turn out this perfectly round, because I’m lazy when it comes to shaping the dough, and I really don’t need them to be works of visual art to be the phenomenal salivary art that they are. So without further ado:

Molly’s Chocolate Chip Cookies (adapted from various Pinterest recipes)

Ingredients:

• Stick and a half butter (high quality if you can), softened
• 1/4 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp vanilla (again, quality counts here)
• 2 cups flour
• 2 tsp cornstarch
• 2 tsp baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 3/4 cup – 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 350F. Ideally you’ll have had your butter sitting out to soften, but if you’re like me and you literally never plan ahead that well, nuking it for 15 seconds should do the trick if it’s coming from the fridge. Add that into your electric mixing bowl. (This can, of course, be done manually with good old fashioned elbow grease but that is obviously not my preferred method.) Pour in the white sugar and brown sugar, mix well until there are no separate bits of butter.

Crack the egg in there and measure out 2 tsp of vanilla; mix again very well.

Most recipes will have you put all the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl before *gradually* mixing it in with your wet ingredients, but honestly, I’ve tried it both ways a dozen times and I can’t see that it makes a damn bit of difference. Don’t make life harder for yourself. Just dump the flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt in the mixing bowl and stir, stir, stir. Once you’ve got everything well incorporated, add the chocolate chips and stir some more.

At this point I like to chill the dough for a little while – not a long time, because who wants to wait any longer than absolutely necessary to shovel these cookies in their mouth, but maybe 20-30 minutes. Go watch an episode of Parks & Rec or Arrested Development. Take a bath. Journal. #selfcare (That said, if you can’t wait, I’m definitely not judging. They’ll turn out fine, but might spread out a little more than they would otherwise.)

Lay some parchment paper on top of a baking sheet and drop your nicely formed dough balls on top. Bake for 10 minutes, NO MORE THAN 11. They won’t look super done, but that’s what we’re going for. This is a recipe for very soft, very chewy chocolate chip cookies. If hard and crispy is what you’re looking for, keep ‘er movin’, friend.