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Use this recipe to make The World’s Greatest Chocolate Chip Cookies. You’ll get perfectly soft and chewy cookies every time!

This is the World’s Greatest Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe! I know, I know, many claims have been made but these are the real deal! This is my slightly modified version of the highly sought after, but long guarded recipe for Mrs. Patti’s Chocolate Chip Cookies.

When Mrs. Patti comes through the front doors at church with a plate of these cookies, the battle is on for who they belong to. If you ask her, she’ll pass on the recipe, but what she doesn’t pass on are all the tweaks she’s made over the past 20 plus years that she has spent perfecting them. I’m here today to share all of those secrets with you, with her permission of course.

These cookies are so soft and chewy you will not be able to stop. Trust me, many have tried and all have failed! Try out this recipe, I promise you will not be disappointed!

Pro-Tips:

• The key to making these cookies soft and chewy is the flour. You know you’ve added enough when you can roll the dough in your hands and it doesn’t stick. I never use more than the 3 cups but different climates call for different things so don’t be afraid to experiment.
• More mixing is not always a good thing, particularly when working with flour. More mixing will not give you the soft texture you are after. When you reach steps 3 and 4, mix the ingredients only long enough to incorporate them.
• If you are concerned about the baking times and nailing the perfect consistency, make the cookie dough then try baking one or two cookies for 10 mins. Let them cool then try one. This will keep you from under/overbaking your whole batch.

World’s Greatest Chocolate Chip Cookies

Yield:

3 1/2 Dozen 

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup Salted Butter 
• ¾ cup Light Brown Sugar
• ½ cup Granulated Sugar
• 2 tablespoons Milk
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla 
• 1 Egg
• 3 cups All-Purpose Flour 
• ½ teaspoon Kosher Salt (table salt can be used in the same measurement)
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 11.5 ounces Milk Chocolate Chips – Here is a link to my favorite chocolate chips.
• ½ cup Chopped Walnuts (optional) 

Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 325°.

2. Combine the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Mix until creamy. You can use a stand mixer, hand mixer or do it like Mrs. Patti and mix it by hand.

3. Add the milk, vanilla, and egg. Mix until completely incorporated. Do not over mix. 

4. Sift the flour, salt, and baking soda together. Add to the wet ingredients 1 cup at a time. The first cup of flour does not need to be incorporated in order to add the next cup. Doing that will lead to over mixing, making your cookie too dense. Add it only as slowly as it takes to not make a mess. Once all the flour is added, mix until incorporated. Again, do not over mix. 

5. By hand, stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts if you are choosing to add them.

6. Use a tablespoon to scoop out a ball of dough and roll it in your hands. Place on an un-greased cookie sheet. If the dough is sticking to your hands, mix in an extra ¼ cup of all-purpose flour. Mix until incorporated. Repeat as necessary.

7. Bake for 8 -11 mins. They won’t feel or look done, but they are! Once the cookies have baked for 10 – 12 minutes you’ll notice that the shine is gone from the cookie dough, that is the sweet spot. Take them out, the cookies shouldn’t be browned at all. One important thing to note is that altitude has a huge impact on baking times. If you’ve done step 7 exactly as written and you find AFTER THEY’VE COOLED that your cookies are not done, try baking them 1 – 2 minutes longer next time until you’ve reached the desired result. 

8. Let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for 10 mins then transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling. If you’re impatient like me and try to transfer them right away you’re going to be very very sad. Be patient my friend. 

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World’s Greatest Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Jennifer

Use this recipe to create soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies that turn out perfectly every time!

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Prep Time 30 mins

Cook Time 10 mins

Total Time 40 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 42 cookies

Ingredients

  

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup Salted Butter
• ¾ cup Light Brown Sugar
• ½ cup Granulated Sugar
• 2 tablespoons Milk
• 2 teaspoons Vanilla
• 1 Egg
• 3 cups All-Purpose Flour
• ½ teaspoon Kosher Salt table salt can be used in the same measurement
• 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 11.5 ounces Milk Chocolate Chips
• ½ cup Chopped Walnuts optional

Instructions

 

Instructions:

• Preheat the oven to 325°.
• Combine the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Mix until creamy. You can use a stand mixer, hand mixer or do it like Mrs. Patti and mix it by hand.
• Add the milk, vanilla and egg. Mix until completely incorporated. Do not over mix.
• Sift the flour, salt and baking soda together. Add to the wet ingredients 1 cup at a time. The first cup of flour does not need to be incorporated in order to add the next cup. Doing that will lead to over mixing, making your cookie too dense. Add it only as slowly as it takes to not make a mess. Once all the flour is added, mix until incorporated. Again, do not over mix.
• By hand, stir in the chocolate chips and walnuts if you are choosing to add them.
• Use a tablespoon to scoop out a ball of dough and roll it in your hands. Place on an un-greased cookie sheet. If the dough is sticking to your hands, mix in an extra ¼ cup of all-purpose flour. Mix until incorporated. Repeat as necessary.
• Bake for 8 -11 mins. They won’t feel or look done, but they are! Once they’ve baked for 8 - 11 minutes you’ll notice that the shine is gone from the cookie dough.  This is the sweet spot, take them out. They shouldn’t be browned at all. One important thing to note is that altitude has a huge impact on baking times. If you’ve done step 7 exactly as written and your cookies are not done, bake them 1 - 2 minutes longer until you’ve reached the desired result.
• Let the cookies sit on the cookie sheet for 10 mins then transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling. If you’re impatient like me and try to transfer them right away you’re going to be very very sad. Be patient my friend.

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