Everyone's Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies (Trust Me)
- 1 cup unsalted butter (slightly softened)
- 1 cup sugar
- 12 cup brown sugar
- 2 eggs (beaten)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons warm water
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups flour
- semi-sweet mini morsels chocolate chips (to your liking...I use MAYBE 1/2 cup)
- 1 (3 1/2 ounce) package French vanilla instant pudding (french vanilla turns out much better than regular vanilla)
- Cream together butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
- Add water, flour, salt and baking soda.
- Stir until moistened.
- (I recommend doing this step by hand as you do not want to overmx).
- Add chocolate chips and instant pudding (if you like richer cookies, add a lot of chips.
- Personally i like to taste the cookie over the chocolate and more chocolate chips.
- affects the texture).
- Fold into mixture just enough to BARELY combine.
- I must stress the importance of this step.
- overmixing will dramatically affect the perfection of the cookie.
- You should have pudding mix that isn't fully mixed inches.This step is the trick to perfect texture.
- Chill dough in refridgerator.
- This isnt entirely necessary because they will still turn out great if you skip this step.
- But, if i have time i've found it helps the cookies keep their shape and not flatten as much.
- drop 1 inch dough onto cookie sheet 2 inches apart.
- (I prefer stone bakeware).
- Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes.
- light golden browning on edges is a good indicator that these are ready to take out.
- You don't want to overcook these.
- Leave on cookie sheet for about five minutes before you transfer to cooling rack (otherwise the will be gooey and fall through rack).
- Enjoy!
unsalted butter, sugar, brown sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking soda, water, salt, flour, semisweet mini, regular vanilla
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/everyones-favorite-chocolate-chip-cookies-trust-me-290871 (may not work)