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    Home » Recipes » Dessert » Cookies

    New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Published by Melissa on March 30, 2010 | Updated June 15, 2022 | 41 Comments

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    Cookies are one of my favorite things to bake. Cookies are an almost instant satisfaction of a sweet tooth. I love sampling the dough as I make it; love a fresh hot cookie right out of the oven; and I really love them the next day when they’ve been in a Ziploc overnight and they are less crispy, and more chewy and tender.

    It seems everyone’s been posting about their new favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe lately, The New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookie, so of course I had to give it a try. These big cookies are made with a combination of cake flour and bread flour, fancy bittersweet chocolate, sprinkled with sea salt and most importantly left to chill in the refrigerator for 24 to 36 hours.

    They puffed up more during cooking then a typical chocolate chip cookie, but then flatten to a typical chocolate chip cookie shape. I thought they were less greasy than a typical chocolate chip cookie, which was nice. I couldn’t find any fancy chocolate disks for my cookies, even though I drove to Whole Foods as suggested. I didn’t make them huge either, so maybe I didn’t get the whole NY Chocolate Chip Cookie experience.

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    Prep Time1 d
    Cook Time18 mins
    Course: Cookies, Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Servings: 18 cookies
    Calories: 0.3kcal
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    Ingredients

    • 2 cups minus 2 tablespoons 8 ½ ounces cake flour
    • 1 ⅔ cups 8 ½ ounces bread flour
    • 1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
    • 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
    • 1 ½ teaspoons coarse salt
    • 2 ½ sticks 1 ¼ cups unsalted butter
    • 1 ¼ cups 10 ounces light brown sugar
    • 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons 8 ounces granulated sugar
    • 2 large eggs
    • 2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract
    • 1 ¼ pounds bittersweet chocolate disks or fèves at least 60 percent cacao content (see note)
    • Sea salt

    Instructions

    • Sift flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Set aside.
    • Using a mixer fitted with paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars together until very light, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla. Reduce speed to low, add dry ingredients and mix until just combined, 5 to 10 seconds. Drop chocolate pieces in and incorporate them without breaking them. Press plastic wrap against dough and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours. Dough may be used in batches, and can be refrigerated for up to 72 hours.
    • When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat. Set aside.
    • Scoop 6 3 ½-ounce mounds of dough (the size of generous golf balls) onto baking sheet, making sure to turn horizontally any chocolate pieces that are poking up; it will make for a more attractive cookie. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt and bake until golden brown but still soft, 18 to 20 minutes. Transfer sheet to a wire rack for 10 minutes, then slip cookies onto another rack to cool a bit more. Repeat with remaining dough, or reserve dough, refrigerated, for baking remaining batches the next day. Eat warm, with a big napkin.
    • Disks are sold at Jacques Torres Chocolate; Valrhona fèves, oval-shaped chocolate pieces, are at Whole Foods.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 0.3kcal | Carbohydrates: 0.1g | Protein: 0.004g | Fat: 0.001g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.001g | Sodium: 306mg | Potassium: 2mg | Fiber: 0.01g | Sugar: 0.01g | Vitamin A: 2IU | Vitamin C: 0.02mg | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 0.04mg

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    1. Lynn

      April 19, 2010 at 8:25 pm

      Cake flour and bread flour, hmmm? Sounds interesting, Barbara! I will have to give these a try next time I'm baking choc. chip cookies.

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      • lynn

        September 28, 2013 at 11:34 am

        Well Barbara, three years later and I finally made these 🙂 They were tasty. When I made them the humungous size like the recipe advised, they stayed puffy. But when I downsized to a regular-sized cookie, mine flattened out like you said yours did. I didn’t have the chocolate disks, so just cut into chunks some bittersweet chocolate bars I had. Anyway . . . fun to try a new recipe, espec. with the two kinds of flour. I think I’m convinced to stick with my tried and true modified Toll House cookies, though.

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        • Barbara Schieving

          September 29, 2013 at 12:20 pm

          So fun that you’re experimenting with chocolate chips cookies. It’s tough work, but someone has to do it. It’s hard to beat a good Toll House Cookie. Thanks for letting me know you tried them.

          Reply
    2. Melanie

      April 16, 2010 at 7:40 pm

      The cookies are beautiful! I've been intrigued by these after seeing them all over the blogworld. I like the fact that you mentioned they are a bit less greasy than others!

      Reply
    3. Jamie

      April 12, 2010 at 8:59 pm

      These do look really good. I haven't heard about these cookies but now I want to make them. How much did you like them? Would you consider them a favorite now? Your 3 most recent posts have me wanting to bake something 🙂 Thanks for all the inspiration.

      Reply
    4. Sophie

      April 02, 2010 at 10:01 am

      Waw,…Barbara!! These chocolate chip cookies look so tasty & awesome too!
      MMMMMMMMMM,…all the way!

      Reply
    5. Cristie

      April 02, 2010 at 2:33 am

      I've wondered about these cookies before, so glad to have an excellant baker give them a thumbs up.

      Reply
    6. Bunnee

      April 01, 2010 at 1:18 am

      Welcome home! I made these cookies and sent them off to the son in Boston. They were pretty good but I'm not sure I think letting the dough sit overnight makes all that much difference. Yours are so uniform and symmetrical – mine were a little more random.

      Reply
    7. msmeanie

      March 31, 2010 at 10:08 pm

      The cookies look delicious! I love my CCC the next day too, when they are soft and chewy. YUM. I am so craving these now…

      Reply
    8. teresa

      March 31, 2010 at 9:48 pm

      chocolate chip cookies are one of my very favorite treats. these look marvelous!

      Reply
    9. Supriya Nair

      March 31, 2010 at 4:30 pm

      Very delectably looking cookies there…luv to try them…

      Reply
    10. Sue Sparks

      March 31, 2010 at 3:22 pm

      Your NY Times cc cookies look/sound so good, that I am going to have to add them to my "to bake" list! I even have sea alt on hand:) I love baking cookies too, for all the reasons you listed!
      Happy Easter!

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    11. Cookin' Canuck

      March 31, 2010 at 2:45 pm

      I keep seeing these pop up around the web and am dying to try them.

      Reply
    12. Tina

      March 31, 2010 at 2:27 pm

      Beautiful clicks and cookies…

      Reply
    13. Kim

      March 31, 2010 at 12:40 pm

      I noticed that Alton Brown has a recipe for cc cookies with bread flour the other day. I have to admit that I really want to test out the bread flour. Sounds like it would make a very chewy cookie. They look great.

      Reply
    14. Heavenly Housewife

      March 31, 2010 at 12:04 pm

      I need to try making these one day. They certainly look great. I like the idea of the sea salt in them.
      Gosh, i'm hungry now.
      *kisses* HH

      Reply
    15. Julia @Mélanger

      March 31, 2010 at 7:30 am

      Mr Mélanger ADORES chocolate chip cookies. I so far have found a good recipe that he likes (a Martha Stewart one), but I am always on the hunt for something better. Question – are these deliciously chewy?

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    16. Katrina

      March 31, 2010 at 3:40 am

      My go-to recipe, but I almost never chill the dough that long and I don't sprinkle the sea salt, but something about the cake/bread flour makes these fabulous for me. And I have found Ghirardelli 60% cacao chips, a little flatter than regular chips, are a perfect "cheaper" option.

      Reply
    17. Jenny

      March 31, 2010 at 2:35 am

      I tried these with two other kinds a year or so back, and what I wonder is what would happen if I took my favorite chocolate chip dough (the original tollhouse recipe, slightly modified) and chilled IT for 24 hours first. That might be the best of all worlds.

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    18. Mags

      March 31, 2010 at 2:22 am

      I'm a chocolate chip cookie freak and it doesn't take much to satisfy my chocolate chip cookie craving, but the baker in me loves to try new recipes so of course I'm adding this recipe to my list.

      Reply
    19. Mimi

      March 31, 2010 at 1:52 am

      You just can't beat a chocolate chip cookie.
      Mimi

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