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Sarah Kieffer’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Sarah Kieffer’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
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These are the cookies that broke the internet. And they are firm favourite here. Because you can never have too many chocolate chip cookie recipes. Adapted from Sarah Kiefer’s The Vanilla Bean Baking Book.
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You Need

14-16 cookies
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  • 285g (2 cups) plain flour
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1/4 tsp salt (plus more for the top of the cookies)
  • 225g (2 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
  • 300g (1 1/2 cups) caster sugar
  • 50g (1/4 cup) packed soft brown sugar
  • 1 large egg at room temperature
  • 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  • 2 tbsp water
  • 170g (6oz) dark chocolate chopped into irregular bite size pieces

    • How To

    1. Preheat your oven to 180C (350F). Line two extra large or three regular baking sheets with parchment paper.
    2. In a small bowl, whisk the flour, bicarbonate of soda, and salt.
    3. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugars together until fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.
    4. Add the egg, vanilla, and water and mix on low to combine, scraping down the bowl to make sure it is all fully incorporated.
    5. Add the flour mixture and mix until combined.
    6. Add chopped chocolate and mix on low into the batter.
    7. Using a large ice cream scoop (or a 1/4 cup measure), form the dough into balls and place next to each other onto one of your prepared pans.
    8. Cover with cling film and place in the freezer for 15 minutes.
    9. When you are ready to cook, arrange the cookie balls well spaced apart on the baking sheets and bake for 8 minutes until the cookies are puffed slightly in the center.
    10. Pick up the baking sheets and let them drop onto the oven rack to set the edges of the cookies and the center deflates. Repeat this lifting and dropping every two minutes three more times, baking 14-16 minutes total, to create the ridges and the crisp edge but with pale and not fully cooked centers.
    11. Allow the cookies to cool completely on the racks before removing from the tray.