How to Make Crispy, Thin Chocolate Chip Cookies



Test cook Morgan Bolling reveals the secret to Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies.

How to make Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies:
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  1. I've always boon in the two other oposing camps… Thin cookies are supposed to be chewey, thick ones should be dry and crumbly… Unfortunetally these combos are so much harder to make! I'll have to try this way of making thin and crispy.

  2. Followed the recipe to a t (1 1/4 C cake flour, the quantity wasn’t stated in the video). Mine didn’t rise as much and make fuller thicker yet flat crispy all the way through cookies like your final results. The dough always cooks down extremely low and thin to the point where the only things sticking up were the chocolate chips. Also did it at 350 rotating halfway thru but the cookies would always scorch on the outside before the middles got golden brown so there was no getting them to turn out properly. I have tried many other similar recipes for thin crispy buttery choc chip cookies and have the exact same problems. Wasted too much time and money on never getting the proper result. Looks like I will just have to stick to buying my cookies, as no recipe out there comes out the way they claim 😢

  3. I have peculiar cookie likes. From grocery stores, I like the texture of “Soft Batch.” I am Not a huge fan of chocolate chunks and dislike nuts, but I am ok with chocolate chips that provide flavor but not texture changes that a chunk piece creates. However, my FAVORITE cookie is a chocolate thin cookie (sometimes made with brownie mix batter OR recipes with powdered chocolate. I leave out the chips, chunks or nuts and I feel like these are a better marriage of cookie texture, integrate chocolate flavor with vanilla support. I wonder how this version might world added cocoa powder.

  4. Packaged soft chocolate chip cookies are the worst. Cookies should be crunchy and crumbly. The only time I want to eat a soft chocolate chip cookie is if I'm lucky enough to get it when it's fresh and right out of the oven and still hot. IMO.

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