Pan-Banging Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sarah Kieffer, The Vanilla Bean Blog [1]
Notes
- I found a kitchen scale helpful for measuring the cookie dough balls to make sure they were big enough for the ripples and that they were consistent in size.
- I also used a kitchen scale for measuring the flour and sugar based on the gram amounts in the recipe as it was featured in the New York Times [2].
- You can substitute salted butter and just cut down the salt (I used 1/2 teaspoon instead of 3/4 teaspoon).
- I used bittersweet chocolate chips instead of a bar of chocolate and chopped them up into really small chunks.
Ingredients
- 2 cups / 256 grams all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 pound / 227 grams unsalted butter (2 sticks), room temperature
- 1 1/2 cups / 302 grams granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup / 55 grams packed light or dark brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 6 ounces / 170 grams bittersweet chocolate (bar or chocolate chips), chopped into coarse pieces, bits and shards
Directions
- Adjust an oven rack to the middle position. Line 3 baking sheets with aluminium foil (dull side up).
- In a small bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda and salt.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle, beat the butter on medium until creamy. Add the granulated and brown sugars and beat on medium until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the egg, vanilla, and water, and mix on low to combine. Add the flour mixture and mix on low until combined. Add the chocolate and mix on low into the batter. (At this point, the dough can be refrigerated for several hours or overnight.)
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (gas mark 4). Form the dough into 3 1/2-ounce (100-gram) balls. Place 4 balls an equal distance apart on a prepared pan, and transfer to the freezer for 15 minutes before baking. After you put the first baking sheet in the oven, put the second one in the freezer.
- Place the chilled baking sheet in the oven and bake 10 minutes, until the cookies are puffed slightly in the centre. Lift the baking sheet and let it drop down against the oven rack, so the edges of the cookies set and the inside falls back down.
- After the cookies puff up again, 2 minutes later, repeat lifting and dropping the pan. Repeat a few more times, every 2 minutes, to create ridges around the edge of the cookie. Bake 16 to 18 minutes total, until the cookies have spread out, and the edges are golden brown but the centres are much lighter and not fully cooked.
- Lift the foil off the pan to transfer the cookies to a wire rack to cool.
- Repeat with remaining cookies.
Information
- Category
- Desserts
- Yield
- 10-12 large cookies
- Total Time
- 44 minutes, 59 seconds