The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Ever-Alice’s Recipe
Yesterday I did a Live cooking segment for a local television station. I made my Black Bean, Avocado, and Mango Salad. I had a lot of fun. Thanks everyone for your kind words and support. You guys are the best! I will try to get a link to post on the blog.
Most of you know I am cookie obsessed, just check my recipe index for proof. My cookie section is a mile long:) When I was browsing through Alice’s blog, Savory Sweet Life, I noticed she had a recipe for the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Ever. I know there are a lot of people who claim they have the best recipe, but I love Alice and her blog, so I knew I had to give her cookies a chance. I trust her judgement:)
I made sure I followed the directions to a T. We weighed the flour and creamed the butter and sugars until they were very creamy. Alice’s step by step instructions and beautiful photos were very helpful. I loved that the recipe called for sea salt, a lot of brown sugar, and loads of chocolate chips…I knew these were going to be good.
We loved these cookies. The edges were nice and crisp, but the centers were soft and chewy. The chocolate chips spread nicely throughout the cookie. You can taste a hint of the sea salt which pairs perfectly with the buttery cookie and rich chocolate.
So were they the best? Try them and decide for yourself:) We will be making these again-thanks Alice! Do you think you have the best chocolate chip cookie recipe? If so, please share!
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Ever-Alice's Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
3 cups (12 oz) all-purpose flour
1 tsp. smallish-medium coarse sea salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 cups/16 oz of semi-sweet chocolate chips (Alice uses Nestle, we used Ghiradelli)Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar until it is nice and fluffy (approx. 5 minutes on medium speed on a KitchenAid Mixer.) Make sure the mixture gets VERY creamy.
Add the eggs and vanilla and beat for an additional 2 minutes. Add baking soda, baking powder, salt, and flour until cookie batter is fully incorporated. Finally add chocolate chips until well distributed. The cookie batter should be somewhat thick. Drop about 2 tablespoons of dough or use a medium cookie scoop and plop the batter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake for 12-14 minutes until the edges are nice and golden brown. We baked ours for 14 minutes, just watch them. Remove from heat and allow the cookies to stay on the cookie sheet for an additional 2 minutes. Pick up the parchment paper with the cookies still on top and transfer to a cool non-porous surface. Allow the cookies to cool on the paper for at least 3 minutes before serving. It was hard to wait 3 minutes, but we listened to Alice:)
Recipe from Savory Sweet Life- recipe, tips, and photos here
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wow, those cookies really do look like the BEST EVER! I always use the Southern Living Recipe that is titled something similar to BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies! so divine!
They look really good! Another to try recipe!
okay, I need to make chocolate chip cookies this weekend and I need a new recipe. I narrowed it down to three, but looks like now I have a fourth! Maybe I’ll just make lots and lots of cookies.
i’m cookie obsessed too–it’s my go-to thing to bake when i have a sweet tooth! this recipe looks so good–the photos in her post are mouthwatering. i’ll have to give it a try for sure!
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Okay … you got me hooked! I can never look away from a chocolate chip cookie recipe especially one that looks so good and comes with such high praise. I’m adding this to my list!
These look so inviting! Nothing like a delicious CC cookie!
Okay…definitely trying this recipe! My hubbie LOVES chocolate chip cookies!!
I saw these cookies when Alice posted them, but haven’t had a chance to give them a try yet. They look SO good!
oooh nice cookies and I cant wait to see the segment too!
Hi Maria,
I love that the flour is weighed. I wish more recipes came by weight instead of volume. I think the recipes are better that way. Great photos!
This recipe was a hit with my children! They don’t normally like cookies (wierd, I know), but they gobbled these up and didn’t want me to share them with anyone else. Thanks for sharing it with me!
These look pretty darn tasty to me!
They look great! Congrats on your TV stint… cant wait to see a link!
Crisp on the outside and chewy and soft on the inside. Just the way I like them! The creaming of the butter and sugar (and the addition of sea salt) are key! I love my recipe for chocolate chip cookies, but I’m always happy to try other people’s recipes.
These look great. I love the use of sea salt, and will definitely try to make these.
I’m always on the search for the best chocolate chip cookie, and I think I may have found it! Can’t wait to give these a try. Thank you so much for sharing!
These sound great! All I know is, every time someone says they have “the best” of anything, I have to try it, and usually, without fail, it ends up being pretty darn good!
I made a double batch of these cookies yesterday and they were AMAZING!!!! I did not have sea salt sadly, so I did what Alice suggested and just used half the amount of regular salt. I looked in the cookie jar this morning and they are almost gone! I will make these again for sure! Thanks for posting!
Brooke-I am so glad you liked the cookies. Thanks for letting us know!
If these are the cookies that I ate when I came over a couple weeks ago…they are amazing! I ate one and then kept on eating.
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these look amazing! would like to check though, when you say 350 degrees, you mean Fahrenheit right?
twopeas replied: — March 7th, 2010 @ 8:08 am
Cynthia-Yes, 350 F. Thanks for checking:)
Wow, these look so good! I am a huge fan of Chocolate Chip Cookies. And a big fan of Alice’s. Any recipe from her can definitely be trusted. Cleary these are no exception.
These chocolate chip cookies look absolutely delicious! I’ll have to add this recipe to my “to bake” list!
These look great! I’ll have to try them and see if they are better than Dorie’s, which are my current fav.
Now I’m very curious to try these cookies! They look soft and generously full of chocolate chips.
One can never have enough “best” chocolate chip cookie recipes. Looks yum. Congrats on the live TV segment. It must have been fun!
Yum! I’ve been wanting to make CCC’s for days! These are almost identical to the Nestle Tollhouse Recipe (my fave) but my mom taught me to always throw in a handful of rolled oats. Adds a little something extra to the texture
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Oh my! Made these last night for grownups and kids and everyone thought they were fabulous. Definitely a step way up from the normal toll house. This will be my go to recipe from now on (until you deem another better).
twopeas replied: — January 1st, 2011 @ 10:51 am
Glad the cookies were a hit! Thanks for letting us know!
These were the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve EVER made and I’ve made a LOT of chocolate chip cookies! I think it was the extra 1/2 cup of sugar than I usually use.
I made these CCC after seeing the recipe on Alice’s blog. She has since changed the recipe – 2 3/4 cups (12 oz) instead of 3 cups (12 oz) . I wished she had edited the recipe instead of actually changing it so other bloggers who made it and linked it to her site would know it’s been changed. Oh well. Either way they were good but still on the hunt for the BEST CCC…
twopeas replied: — January 19th, 2011 @ 7:26 am
Sorry about that. I didn’t know she changed the recipe. Try the New York Times Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe on our site. They are our favorite:)
These cookies are absolutely amazon and easy to make for a beginner like mysef. I brought them in to work for my treat day, and they were devoured! People raved about them all day! One common comment? You should SELL these cookies! Thanks for a great recipe.
twopeas replied: — March 28th, 2011 @ 11:27 am
You are welcome:)
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I just made these, didn’t have butter so I used margarine…turned out delicious! I am sure that butter would have made these even better! Thanks for the great recipe!
Two Peas replied: — August 9th, 2011 @ 8:39 pm
You are welcome!
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I am saving lots of chocolate chip cookie recipes, going to make all of them until I find the best one! I’ll try these!
i tried making these cookies and i thought for sure they would come out great but instead thy came out horrible and puffy not flat and crisp but horrible and puffy. i know a followed this recipe exactly. can someone tell me why this happened?
Two Peas replied: — December 30th, 2011 @ 9:55 am
Sorry you had trouble. We make these cookies all of the time and never have a problem. Did you add too much flour?