This is a recipe one of my good friends in college, Genie, shared with me, sometime early in the pandemic times. It's a recipe she had practiced and perfected, and it has never failed to produce yummy chocolate chip cookies! I know everyone has their own feelings about what makes the best cookie, but I'm not super picky and I've been happy every time – and there's just something a little extra special about making cookies from scratch following my friend's recipe, rather than a random recipe from the internet, that makes them even yummier. Try it out and see what you think! There's room for tweaking the recipe wherever you want to, but I think this is a pretty solid base recipe for some solid chocolate chip cookies.
Ingredients
1 stick butter melted
1 egg + 1 egg yolk (or 2 eggs if you don't want to separate)
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 bag / 2 cups ish chocolate chips
Steps
Preheat the oven to 350 F.
Melt the butter (cut it into chunks first, it's a lot easier)
In a medium bowl mix together the flower, salt, and baking soda with a fork.
Once the butter is not super hot, mix the eggs into the butter.
In a big bowl combine and mix the eggs, butter, flour mixture, and sugar.
Once fully mixed add in the chocolate chips.
Use a tablespoon to spoon the dough onto a baking sheet, placing each cookie a few inches apart (anticipate spreading).
Bake at 350 for about 13-15 minutes (check at about 13 mins and find what the right time is for baking in your oven).