60 in 60: Day 5- Chocolate Chip Cookies

Today's cookie: Best Ever Big Chocolate Chip Cookies

Today's recipe: Is delicious and found here.

Best Ever Big Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 cups unsalted butter (melted)
2 cups brown sugar (firmly packed)
1 cup white sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
2 eggs
2 egg yolks
3 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips or chunks

You might notice in the ingredient list that is says baking soda and that there is baking powder in the picture. My bad. Truthfully, I freaked for the first 15 minutes (aka the first batch of cookies), then I took them out of the oven. The only difference it made was that the cookies are a lot flatter than they should have been. Also, they've got little pools of crusties around the actual cookie. No big deal if this should happen to you during this recipe. I can't taste the difference here.

Preheat oven to 325 F. Grease cookie sheets. Combine flour, baking soda and salt in one bowl.

MELT THAT BUTTAH!

In another bowl, cream melted butter and both the brown sugar and white sugar until well blended.

Beat in the vanilla, egg, and egg yolk until the consistency is light and creamy.

Mix in the flour, baking soda and salt from the other bowl until blended.

DO NOT SKIMP ON THE CHOCOLATE CHIPS!!!!

This is a very important step and I don't want you to forget it, because without the chocolate chips these cookies would just be sugar cookies, and I've already made those once this week.

Stir in the chocolate chunks by hand.

Drop 1/4 cup of dough onto the prepared cookie sheets. The cookies should be about 3 inches apart as they spread a bit.

Bake for 15 to 18 minutes at 325F or until golden brown. Let sit on baking sheets for a few minutes before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.

The worst thing about this recipe is that the cookies are so big that I could only fit four or five on a cookie sheet at once, and each batch in the oven took about fifteen minutes, so the whole yield took just under an hour in the oven.

Recipe Yield: n/a

My Yield: 27 HUGE cookies