Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is honestly, the best chocolate chip cookie recipe EVER! I have made alot of chocolate chip cookies, something was always missing: too sweet, too much chocolate, hard, too chewy, no taste ... you name it, I have complained about it. However, this recipe ... has never let me down. I use this recipe for not only those cute little chocolate chip cookies (the 2 or 3 bite kind), but I also make those HUGE JUMBO cookies with this recipe and cookie cakes (photo above). I have added some tips at the bottom of the post for some great ideas. Enjoy making cookies ...

Kitchen Equipment:

cookie sheets

parchment

1/4 c. scoop (or scoop size you prefer for cookie size)

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies: 26 jumbo cookies - 6 dozen tablespoon scoop size

3 1/4 c. all purpose flour

1 c. cake flour (I use Swan's Down)

1 t. baking powder

1 t. baking soda

1 1/4 c. sugar

1 1/4 c. brown sugar

1 1/2 c. unsalted butter, softened

2 eggs

1 T. vanilla extract

1 (12 oz.) semi sweet chocolate chips

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. Combine flour, cake flour, baking powder and bakind soda, set aside. In large mixing bowl, combine sugar, brown sugar and butter, beat at medium speed until creamy.

3. Add eggs and vanilla extract; reduce speed to low and gradually add flour mixture.

4. By hand, stir in chocolate chips, drop dough by 1/4 cupfuls (or use a scoop size of your choice); 2" apart on a parchment lined baking sheet.

5. Bake 10 - 14 minutes or until light brown, let stand 1 - 2 minutes before removing from cookie sheets.

TIPS:

- chocolate chunks work nicely in this recipe using the 1/4 c. scoop, they are a bit too much for a smaller scoop

- I like mixing chips: white chocolate, semi-chocolate and butterscotch; it's a nice mixture

- my kids like the mini m&m's in this recipe

- to make the cookie cake: scoop and freeze about 12 cookie "balls" for a 10" round cake pan (tablespoon size scoop); place cookie balls into pan that has been heavily sprayed with cooking spray (or you can shortening and flour pan, but the flour sometimes sticks and looks yucky on the cookie after it's unpanned); wait about 20 minutes and using your fingers, press dough into bottom and up the sides (just a bit) of the cake pan; bake in 350 degree oven for about 15 minutes (check after that, you many need to go 20 min); cool in pan; using a butter knife, run along the edge of pan to begin releasing; tip cookie cake onto cooling rack