Sunday, 30 May 2010

• Recipe: Alton Brown's "The Chewy"

  Guest blog submitted by Kirbie's Cravings.
  
  

  My quest to find my perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe continued this past weekend when I tried out Alton Brown's recipe called "The Chewy."  I've seen his recipe quite a few times floating around on other blogs. I was intrigued by the use of bread flour rather than all purpose flour. I also liked that I only needed to refrigerate the recipe for a few hours rather than overnight or over several days. I just don't have that kind of patience or fridge space. 

  

  The recipe was pretty simple to put together. After the dough was refrigerated, it was much easier to scoop out and mold. I liked that this recipe made big cookies. The cookies stayed puffy and thick and came out looking pretty nice. Some of the recipes I've tried, I feel like the cookies are quite ugly.

  

  I found this recipe to be pretty tasty. I like how thick the cookie is. This recipe is definitely a keeper unless I find something better.

  Alton Brown's The Chewy Chocolate chip cookies

  Ingredients

  2 sticks unsalted butter
  2 1/4 cups bread flour
  1 teaspoon kosher salt
  1 teaspoon baking soda
  1/4 cup sugar
  1 1/4 cups brown sugar
  1 egg
  1 egg yolk
  2 tablespoons milk
  1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

  Directions

  1. Melt the butter in a heavy-bottom medium saucepan over low heat. Sift together the flour, salt, and baking soda and set aside.

  2. Pour the melted butter in the mixer's work bowl. Add the sugar and brown sugar. Cream the butter and sugars on medium speed. Add the egg, yolk, 2 tablespoons milk and vanilla extract and mix until well combined. Slowly incorporate the flour mixture until thoroughly combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.

  
  

  3. Chill the dough (about 2 hours), then scoop onto parchment-lined baking sheets, using an ice cream scoop, 6 cookies per sheet. Cookies should be quite large if you are using a regular ice cream scooper. Preheat oven to 375 F. Bake for 14 minutes or until golden brown, checking the cookies after 5 minutes. Rotate the baking sheet for even browning. Cool completely and store in an airtight container.

  Anyone have their personal favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes to share?  Please post!

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