These are not your mother's chocolate chip cookies!
Since we’ve all been eating kale chips for the past couple of days (we have, right?) I think we deserve a cookie.
But not just any cookie will do. It has to be this cookie.
Once I stumbled upon this awesome post I had an epiphany. Life is too short to eat mediocre cookies.
Stella from BraveTart is a Culinary Institute of America trained baker, so when I read her 10 tips for a better chocolate chip cookie I jumped right aboard that train and made a batch of cookies.
Extra chocolate chips sprinkled on top of baked cookies make them look that much better.
Oh. My. Gawd.
These cookies are irresistibly, betcha-can’t-eat-just-one good! I’ve been using the same exact recipe for CCCs for years and they’ve always been good - obviously, or I would have found a new recipe by now. Duh - but they’ve never been this good. These were easily the best CCCs to ever come out of my oven.
I only implemented half of the tips so go to BraveTart if you want to read about all ten. I can’t even begin to imagine how extraordinary a batch of cookies would be using all ten of them. Stella’s pearls of wisdom are highlighted with asterisks in the recipe below.
I recommend taking the butter out of the fridge to soften right now. It takes a while, ya know!
A sprinkling of sea salt takes an otherwise great cookie over the top.
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- **1/4 teaspoon nutmeg** (I hate nutmeg but I took Stella’s advice and it totally worked!)
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- ½ to 1 cup chopped hazelnuts
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- In a medium bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. **Do not overbeat. Only beat until combined or you will incorporate too much air, causing cookies to puff up and then flatten out**.
- Mix in the eggs and vanilla.
- Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and **nutmeg** and add to the butter mixture. Stir until just blended.
- Stir in the white and semi-sweet chocolate chips.
- Stir in the hazelnuts.
- **Refrigerate dough at least 2 hours or overnight** (I had trouble with this one so I baked some right away and chilled the rest).
- Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. **Sprinkle with sea salt**.
- Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.
- **Upon removing cookies from oven, quickly sprinkle a few extra chips on top of each cookie**.
- Transfer to wire racks to cool completely.
Adapted from allrecipes.
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LOVE the sprinkle of sea salt! Such a great idea. These cookies look fab
Abby recently posted..Mini Meatloaf Cupcakes
What’s better than salty chocolate? Yum!
Yum! Now that’s how you make chocolate chip cookies. Have you tried grating fresh nutmeg? I hate the pre-grated stuff, but fresh is completely different.
Nancy @ Rivertree Kitchen recently posted..Fresh pea and spinach salad
I haven’t! I’d love to try some if I can find it.
They look amazing! I finally gave in and started a “food” board on pinterest because of these pictures!
Jess recently posted..Get the Message
Great! I’m happy to assist in your soon-to-be pinterest addiction
Julie, look for whole nutmegs (they look a little like hazelnuts). A microplane makes the perfect grater. I get my nutmeg (and all my spices) from Penzeys Spices.
Nancy @ Rivertree Kitchen recently posted..Fresh pea and spinach salad
Sea salt on top? Oh! I’m all about sea salt-I love that.
I’m always too impatient to let my butter soften as much as it should. This is one of the many, many reasons why I’m a better cook than a baker. 
Kiersten @ Oh My Veggies recently posted..What I Ate This Week + Ginger Peach Overnight Oatmeal Recipe
Um, yea. I may have had to microwave mine a little
Can’t go wrong with a perfected Chocolate Chip Cookie!!! Love the pics too.
Part Time House Wife recently posted..Caprese Stuffed Turkey Burgers
I too love a sprinkle of sea salt on the top of chocolate cookies. These look fantastic.
Angie@Angie’s Recipes recently posted..Cakey Chocolate Splet Cookies
I never would have thought of it on my own but it’s soooo good!
These look great. have a pretty awesome CCC recipe I use, but I may have to incorporate her suggestions to make them even better.
Brianne @ Cupcakes & Kale Chips recently posted..Fruity Summer Shrimp Salad with Strawberry Lime Poppyseed Vinaigrette
Yes, try it. That will be that much better!
I just revealed my secret chocolate chip cookie recipe too so we are definitely thinking along the same lines
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
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I will go check it out…
This is my daughter’s favorite cookies. Well, who doesn’t love choco chips, anyway? It is indeed everyone’s favorite, isn’t it ? This recipe is for keeps
myfudo recently posted..life is delicious: raspberry tart recipe & her pet monkey rhubarb
Love the post. BraveTart is responsible for a new wave of chic chip cookies I think.
I love that she didn’t even provide a recipe. She was just like “make your cookies and do this stuff to them”. It totally worked.
The sea salt in top is calling my name out for sure! And, I’m so intrigued by the touch of nutmeg. These look delicious! Heading over to check out the rest of the tips so I can try whping up a GF version. Yum!
EA-The Spicy RD recently posted..Tooting My Own Horn: My Bean Homework Is Completed!
Cannot wait to make these… those 24 hours sound painful but good things come to those who wait, right!?
xo
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Just make a couple right away to hold you over
These look perfect!! I love the sea salt.
Also, I ALWAYS have trouble refrigerating. I end up at my fridge, eating the dough raw instead of waiting..
ATasteOfMadness recently posted..Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cupcakes
These cookies seem to insanely good- hazlenuts, sea salt and extra chips to top- YUM. Need to make these- ASAP
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Tisa recently posted..Daring Cooks Challenge - June 2012; Cannelloni, please!
Hazelnuts are my favorite in cookies. I always substitute them for whatever nut the recipe calls for.
Hi Julie! Thanks for visiting my blog, and nice to meet you! What a great idea to drop some chocolate chip after they are baked. The cookies do look nice with the extra chocochips on top! We all love chocolate chip cookies and tried several recipes. Yours will be on our next list! Can’t wait this perfect looking cookies!
Nami | Just One Cookbook recently posted..Pineapple Sorbet
Wow these look absolutely divine! There is nothing better than a perfect chocolate chip cookie!
Beth Michelle recently posted..Jalapeño Popper Grilled Cheese with Bacon and Mango
Love this crispy chocolate chip cookies.
balvinder recently posted..Gluten Free Banana Split Cake
Nutmeg huh? And white and chocolate chips? And hazelnuts? Think I want one now, don’t think I could wait for the dough to chill either! Yum!
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An undisclosed amount of dough may have been eaten raw
Totally agree with you — I find myself sometimes stretching too far to make things healthier than the original, but when it comes down to it, if I want a cookie, I want a cookie — not a compromised version of it using ingredients you’d never associate with it in the first place (i.e. chickpeas? cashew paste?). Love the bite-size look to these!
Aylin @ Glow Kitchen recently posted..Vegan Eggplant Meatballs
i saw this post from BraveTart too; i love her. she’s sort of one of my idols in terms of baking and photography. and i was totally intrigued by her chocolate chip cookie post; what interesting suggestions! i haven’t had a chance to test them, but your cookies are BEAU-TI-FUL. i feel like i can literally taste them (am i hungry tonight?) and they look absolutely perfect. i need to work on my own improvements.
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I like the extra chocolate chips on top! You’re a woman after my own chocolate loving heart.
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