Adapted Momofuku Compost Cookies Recipe
- 4 ounces cold unsalted butter, chopped up
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons light brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 tablespoon corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 large egg
- 4.5 weight ounces flour (If you don' t have a scale, fluff up the flour and scoop up 1 heaping cup. Sweep top flat)
- 1 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 cup sweet add-ins
- 3/4 cup salty add-ins
- In stand mixer with paddle attached, cream cold butter, both sugars and corn syrup on medium high until fluffy, 2-3 minutes. Scrape down sides of mixing bowl.
- Add eggs and vanilla and stir to incorporate. Increase mixing speed to medium-high and run mixer for 10 full minutes. During this time sugar granules will dissolve, mixture will become an almost pale white color and double in size.
- Meanwhile, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
- By hand or using lowest speed of mixer, stir in flour mixture - don't beat it in or the cookies won't be as tender. Stir in candies and salty things.
- Using about heaping 1/3 cup measure or a stingy 4 ounce measure, scoop up dough and form rounds. My scooped rounds weighed a little less than 4 ounces each. Put shaped rounds on plate, cover with plastic wrap and chill for a few hours or until ready to bake.
- DO NOT BAKE your cookies from room temperature or they will not hold their shape.
- Heat conventional oven to 400u0b0F. (350u0b0F in convection oven). Arrange chilled cookie dough balls on parchment or non-stick foil lined cookie sheet - mine was insulated. If your cookie sheets are thin, you might want to stack two and bake cookies on stacked cookie sheets.
- Bake 9-11 min (I baked mine for 12-13. While in oven, cookies will puff, crackle and spread. According to original recipe, at 9 min the cookies should be browned on the edges and just beginning to brown towards the center. At 9 minutes, Mine were pale and doughy looking. Leave cookies in the oven for additional minutes if needed (it will be needed) and bake a total of about 12-14 minutes. All ovens are different so you'll need to watch cookies, specifically the edges.
- Cool cookies completely on sheet pan before transferring to plate or airtight container or tin for storage (I cooled mine on sheet for only about 5 minutes, but mine were a tad bit overcooked so they were fine).
butter, granulated sugar, light brown sugar, corn syrup, vanilla, egg, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, sweet addins
Taken from www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2010/12/adapted-momofuku-compost-cookies-recipe.html (may not work)