Claire Saffitz Makes Chocolate Chip Cookies | Dessert Person
What makes the best chocolate chip cookies? In Claire’s opinion, it’s a chewy edge, soft and chewy center, puddles of chocolate (in this case, dark and milk), a healthy amount of salt, and, crucially, lots of butterscotch-y flavor from the interplay of vanilla, brown sugar, and brown butter. That might sound like a lot, but it all comes together easily in a couple of bowls, no stand mixer required. The hardest part is definitely waiting for the dough to chill in the fridge before baking.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 sticks unsalted butter (8 oz / 227g), cut into tablespoons
2 tablespoons heavy cream, half-and-half, or whole milk (1 oz / 28g)
2 cups all-purpose flour (9.2 oz / 260g)
2 teaspoons Diamond Crystal kosher salt (0.22 oz / 6g)
1 teaspoon baking soda (0.21 oz / 6g)
3/4 cup packed dark brown sugar (5.3 oz / 150g)
3/4 cup granulated sugar (5.3 oz / 150g)
2 large eggs (3.5 oz / 100g), cold from the refrigerator
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
5 ounces (142g) bittersweet chocolate disks, half coarsely chopped
5 ounces (142g) milk chocolate disks, half coarsely chopped
Video Breakdown:
0:00 Start
0:10 Intro to Chocolate Chip Cookies
0:29 Dessert Person Intro Animation
0:47 About Chocolate Chip Cookies
1:28 Explanation of The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
2:00 Ingredients & Special Equipment
2:57 Brown The Butter
4:40 Mix The Batter
9:08 Chocolate
12:07 Portion out Cookies
15:03 Preheat & Prepare Pans
16:55 Chill & Eat The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
18:35 Splitting Firewood.
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Are Chocolate Chip Cookies the greatest dessert of all time?
Do you need to do the ice bath thing ? I never have ice 😂
I made these cookies: waited 12 hours for 1/2 batch and 48 hours for the other batch and these were the best cookies ever. Simple to make and delicious.
Are Chocolate Chip Cookies the greatest dessert of all time?. My husband thinks that instead of “Claire Facts” it should be “Claire-ification.”.
They turned out great but is there a way to make these less sweet? I thought mine were overly sweet. If I use 3/4 brown and 1/2 cup white sugar will this work? Or should I do 1/2 cup of each? I want to keep the original texture and taste but lower the sweetness.
I'm so psyched to make these. and I see the ingredient list, but are the step-by-step instructions here somewhere? I have a bad knack for not seeing things right in front of my face.
anyone should only ever make these forever they are hands down the goat
dont use salted butter and don't use granular salt….especially not both…learned the hard way….
1 sexy cookie.
Can i use cane sugar instead of granulated sugar?
Do we brown both sticks of butter or just one ? The online recipe says one but on the video you browned both stick ? 😊
I made these cookies today! THE BEST COOKIES IVE EVER HAD IN MY LIFE!!!
i use 1 cup bread flour and 1 cup cake flour instead, add some baking powder, only semi sweet chips and sprinkle flaky sea salt on top and they are DIVINE!
Always a fabulous recipe – so thoughtful about user experience for her followers and always a great tasting!
All you do is talk
I can’t get my butter to brown. I want to blame Costco but also I have no idea why its not browning
Could I use evaporated milk?
I made this recipe the other day, used fancy french butter…cookies were delicious!
12 hour rest time? Bwhahahahahaahhaaha.
Hi Claire! I tried the chocolate chip cookies from your book but forgot to add the granulated sugar and added just the brown sugar 🙁 is there any way I can save the cookies?
Mmmm Best chocolate chip cookies ever!
I just put these in the oven…. they better be worth the effort…
(18 minutes later)
I have a tummy ache… 😛