How To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies Have you ever wanted to make some really delicious and perfectly baked chocolate chip cookies but didn’t know how to? Well, it’s not as hard as you think it is. There’s just a few simple steps that you should follow and your cookies will end up tasting amazing and everyone will want to have the “secret” recipe. The first step that you must do is preheat the oven to three-hundred seventy five degrees, depending on how your oven bakes you may need to vary the temperature so that you do not under cook or over cook your cookies.
Burnt cookies are the worst, and if you do happen to burn them, you’ll have to make a whole other batch! What a waste of ingredients. While the oven is preheating you can start mixing your batter. What you will need is: 2 eggs 2 ? cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup softened butter ? cup packed brown sugar ? cup granulated sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 – 2 cups chocolate chips In a medium bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking soda. If this mixture becomes clumpy, you can reduce them by sifting through with a sifter.
When you are done mixing these three ingredients you can place them off to the side because you will need them a little later. Now it is time to mix the rest of the ingredients. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together, then beat the eggs and vanilla in. You will want to make sure to put in the sugar and butter first because when you mix the two together the sugar helps break down the butter. After you have mixed the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract you need to add the dry ingredients, the ones that you mixed in the beginning. To make the process shorter and easier you will probably want to use an electrical mixer.
Now that all of the ingredients have been mixed together evenly you will want to add the chocolate chips. This is the part that you can change up if you want and it all depends on how chocolaty you or your guests want the cookies. You can put one or two cups in and it will not change any of the proportions or how long you need to bake them for. Once you have decided and poured the chocolate chips in you will want to mix them in, but this time you should do it by hand instead of with the electrical mixer to ensure that they are mixed through the batter evenly.
By now your oven should have already beeped and told you that it has finished the preheat. You will want to get out a cookie sheet and spray a light layer of baking spray on it so that when your cookies are done baking they will not stick to the pan. Now, you’re probably wondering “how big do I make them? ” or “how do I get the batter from the bowl to the pan? ” What you’ll want to do is get a decent sized spoon and scoop a good sized spoonful onto the pan and press down a little bit with clean hands.
When you start placing the batter onto the pan, you will want to make sure that they are evenly spaced, so give them about two inches from each other, because when they are baking they will expand. Now that the dough is in the oven you should set a timer for nine minutes, you will want to make the time a little shorter than what you actually plan on baking them for because sometimes the oven bakes a little fast or you just happen to like your cookies on the gooey side. When the cookies are in the oven you will want to make sure to keep a close eye on them so that you can take them out immediately when they are done.
How you know they are done is by looking at the color, they should be a nice golden color, almost like sand. Once the cookies look about done you need to get an oven mitt and remove them from the oven and place them on a safe flat surface. One thing you’ll need to remember is that the pan is still extremely hot and that the cookies are still baking while sitting on there so you need to remove them quick! To remove the cookies without burning yourself you will want to use a spatula.
When you take the cookies off you should put them onto a paper towel, cooling rack, or a sheet of wax paper so that they can cool down. Once they are on the wax paper, a cooling rack, or a paper towel you should wait about five minutes for them to cool down before you eat them. If you followed all of these simple instructions you are bound to make the perfect batch every time and you’ll have people wondering how you do it every time. There will be no more how’s or what’s or how much’s because you now know the simplest and most efficient way to make the best tasting cookie.
