Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Can you freeze chocolate chip cookies? Yes you can! Here's how to make Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, for the best chocolate chip cookies - ever! Here are tips for baking the frozen cookies balls:Place the frozen balls on a baking sheet.Bake at 350 for 18 minutes for 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 inch balls.
Ingredients
- 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled
- 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 ¼ teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons coarse salt
- 1 ¼ cups 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups packed light-brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 Tbsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cups milk chocolate chips
- 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup pecans, chopped
Equipment
- 1 1/4-cup ice-cream scoop
Instructions
- In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugars on medium-high until light and fluffy, 6 minutes. Reduce speed to medium-low and beat in eggs, one at a time. Beat in vanilla. Mix in flour mixture just until incorporated; fold in chocolate chips and chunks and nuts.
- Using a 1/4-cup ice-cream scoop or a large spoon, drop dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet (you should have 24 balls) and refrigerate 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. Arrange 6 unbaked cookies, 3 inches apart, on each of two parchment-lined baking sheets. Bake until edges are light golden brown, 17 to 18 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through.
- Transfer cookies to a wire rack and let cool. Bake remaining dough using new parchment.
- If you choose to freeze for gifts, follow the instructions above in the post.
Notes
Reposted from February 2014.