The Secret Ingredient for the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
There's one little secret ingredient to making the best soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies. If you love bakery-style cookies that are moist and chewy from top to bottom and baked to a golden brown, you'll love this recipe!
1cupwhole wheat flour(or you can use more all purpose flour)
1teaspoonbaking soda
¼teaspoonfine sea salt
pinchnutmeg(optional)
10ozdark chocolate chips
½cuppecansoptional
Instructions
In a large bowl, cream butter and two sugars together. Add corn syrup, egg and vanilla.
In a separate medium-sized bowl, mix together flours, baking soda, sea salt and nutmeg. Add dry ingredients to the butter and sugar mixture.
Fold in chocolate chips (and pecans if desired).
Using a cookie scoop, spoon onto baking sheet covered with parchment paper or a silicon baking sheet and bake at 350˚ for 10-12 minutes or until middle is just set (not shiny). Remove from oven and let cool. Remove with a thin metal spatula.
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Notes
Bake until golden brown and cookies no longer look wet or shiny in the center.Remove from baking sheet with a thin metal spatula and let cool on cooling rack.