The Ultimate Guide to Chocolate Chip Cookies. In this post Im going to share with you how various ingredients and techniques can affect the taste, texture, and appearance of your chocolate chip cookies. This will hopefully help you understand how chocolate chip cookie recipes work so you can make the PERFECT batch every time, whatever you consider to be perfect. This information will allow you to alter or create your own chocolate chip recipe that produces cookies just the way YOU like them. Youll be an expert on the anatomy of the chocolate chip cookie. I used the Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe as my control and made little changes and variations in techniques and ingredients to show you how they affect the cookie. I halved and adapted the original Tollhouse recipe. I kept everything the same through each recipe test, changing one key thing to see its effect and photographing the results for you. If you need more help figuring out why your cookies arent turning out the way you want them to, be sure to check out my Ultimate Cookie Troubleshooting Guide. Cookie Tools and Ingredients Used OXO Good Grips Medium Cookie ScoopChicago Metallic sheet pansSilpat baking mats or unbleached parchment paperKitchen. Aid 5 quart Stand MixerOven thermometer King Arthur Unbleached All Purpose Flour Fine sea salt Light brown sugar except the granulated sugar recipe test Large eggs Unsalted butter that was at a cool room temperature except the melted butter recipe testControl Recipe. Cauliflower Potato Soup. Ingredients 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons 5 ounces or 1. Directions Preheat oven to 3. F. Line baking sheets with nonstick baking mats or parchment paper. In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. In the bowl of an electric mixer beat the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla, beating well to combine. Robert Carrier OBE born Robert Carrier McMahon in November 10, 1923 in Tarrytown, New York died June 27, 2006 in France was an American chef, restaurateur and. I have a maddening craving for some homemade chocolate chip cookies. I do not trust store goods packaged recipes as my grandmother and mother who could and can make. Delicious, decadent recipes for chocolatecovered strawberries, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cake and more irresistible desserts. Emily Luchettis Chocolate Chip Meringue Cookies. By Martha Rose Shulman. About 1 hourCalories 397 per servinghttp hIDSERP,5159. Jacques Torres Chocolatey Chocolate Chip Cookies. Jacques Torres Chocolatey Chocolate Chip Cookies. These have been on my ToBake List for a while now. Ever since my mom emailed me the link to this recipe and. Gradually beat in the flour mixture. Stir in the chocolate chips. Scoop 1 12 tablespoon sized balls and place onto prepared baking sheets. Bake for 9 to 1. 1 minutes, or until golden brown. Cool for 2 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely. Here is the control, an adapted version of the Nestle Tollhouse recipe. The full recipe I used to base all of the tweaks on is at the bottom of this post. Chocolate Store Reviews and More I review chocolate confections pralines, cordials, bonbons, and other chocolates with stuff in them. Here is a web site with. IMG_2078-e1505363177879.jpg' alt='Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies' title='Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies' />Baking Powder Removed baking soda from recipe and used 12 teaspoon baking powder. This produced results that were more cakey and puffed while baking. Baking Powder AND Baking Soda Used 14 teaspoon baking powder and 14 teaspoon baking soda. This produced results that were crisp at the edges, soft in the middle, with a good amount of spread. The combination of the two leaveners produced the best results in my opinion. MORE Flour Increased the flour to 2 cups 2. The cookies were small yet thick and relatively undercooked ooey and gooey in the middle. MELTED Butter I replaced the room temperature butter with melted and cooled butter. Instead of creaming the butter and sugar with an electric mixer, I simply stirred the butter and sugars together then let sit for 5 minutes, until the sugar was better absorbed by the butter. This produced flatter cookies that had a shiny, crackled top reminiscent of brownies. They were also more crisp at the edges. All Granulated Sugar I used 34 cup granulated sugar in this recipe which produced flat, white, chewy, and slightly crunchy cookies but with little flavor. Since baking soda called for in the control recipe requires an acid such as brown sugar to react, these cookies fell very flat as you can see by the way the chocolate chips protrude. All Brown Sugar I used 34 cup packed light brown sugar in this recipe which produced thick, brown, and soft cookies with an intense butterscotch flavor. Find 14 tempting chocolate chip cookie recipes, including soft, chewy, chunky, and more. SOCIAL-Jacques-Torres-Ice-Cream-Sandwich-Iced-Tea-Chocolate-Chip-Cookie-Homemade-Ice-Cream-Desserts-Summer-Recipes-Sweets-Baking.jpg' alt='Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies' title='Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies' />The original control recipe uses an even ratio of granulated and brown sugars. If you prefer your cookies to be flatter, chewier, or crisper, use more granulated sugar. If you prefer your cookies to be softer and thicker and have a pronounced butterscotch flavor, use more brown sugar. CHILLED Dough I used the control recipe but chilled it in the fridge for about 2. This produced cookies that were slightly thicker, chewier, darker, and with a better depth of butterscotch flavor. If you have time, try chilling your next cookie dough for at least 2. Final Comparison. Jacques Torres The New York Times. THE wheels were turning last week at Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven, where an employee was feverishly tossing too much powdered sugar into a rolling drum of macadamia nuts. In another time or place, he would have earned a four star scolding, but not with Mr. Torres at his side. If you do it like that, it will puff out too much, Mr. Torres said, patting his puffed out stomach and stumbling with a Charlie Chaplin gait. See, just like me. Mr. Torres was not only relaxing a nervous employee he was playing to his audience. Not 1. 0 feet in front of him, noses pressed against the window that looks from the sidewalk right into Mr. Torress workshop at 3. Hudson Street, at King Street, in So. Ho. People know we have fun here, he said. They can watch to see what we do.