Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

(because I just haven't featured enough cookie recipes on here...)

Ever been to one of those bakeries that sell those really yummy, chewy cookies?

And when you try to make some at home, they never turn out quite right?

Well, I found a recipe that actually works. They're not undercooked, but they're soft and chewy.

(shout out to my neighbor Libby who let me use some of her vanilla when I realized halfway through the process, that I didn't have any. Hope you liked the cookies!)

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

(Original recipe by Cooks Illustrated

But I found it on this darling site called "Our Best Bites")

(Photo source here)

Ingredients

• 2 C plus 2 T flour
• 1/2 t baking soda
• 1/2 t salt
• 12 T butter (1 1/2 sticks) melted and cooled until warm
• 1 cup brown sugar (light or dark)
• 1/2 C granulated sugar
• 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk
• 2 t vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 C semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate chips

Directions

Heat oven to 325 degrees. Adjust oven racks to upper- and lower-middle positions. Mix flour, salt, and baking soda together in mediumbowl; set aside.
Either by hand or with electric mixer, mix butter and sugars untilthoroughly blended. Mix in egg, yolk, and vanilla. Add dry ingredients;mix until just combined. Stir in chips.
Take about 1/4 C dough and form into a ball.  Break ball in half and place dough on cookie sheet with broken edge facing up*.  (Or just use a standard sized cookie scoop). Bake until cookies are set around outer edges start to hardenyet centers are still soft and puffy, 10-13 minutes.  Cool cookies on cookie sheets. Serve or store inairtight container.

*Cool trick: Form scant 1/4 cup dough into ball. Holding dough ball using fingertips of both hands, pull into two equal halves. Each half will have a jagged surface where it was ripped from the other; rotate each half up so the jagged surface faced the ceiling and press the halves back into one ball so that the top surface remains jagged. (The nooks and crannies you have created will give the baked cookies an attractive and somewhat rough, uneven appearance.) Place formed dough onto one of two parchment paper-lined cookie sheets, about 9 balls per sheet.