Alice’s Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

I don’t know Alice. I’ve never met Alice. But Alice knows how to bake her some cookies.

In honor of National Chocolate Chip Day I decided to make my family some chocolate chip cookies and went scouring the internet for a recipe. Anytime someone uses “Best” in their recipe I’m usually skeptical but these lived up to their name.

And how do I know that they are that good? Besides eating them myself, my nephew Caleb who doesn’t like sweets ate two of these. That he ate one is a miracle in itself but to go out and get another – wow!

I halved the original recipe and recipes get all wonky (that’s an official term by the way) when you mess with the measurements, but this one still turned out great.

Ingredients:

1 sticks unsalted butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla extract
6 oz all-purpose flour
Dash kosher salt
1/2 tsp. baking soda
3/4 tsp. baking powder
11/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar until fluffy (approx. 3 minutes on medium-high speed). Add egg and vanilla and beat for an additional 2 minutes. Add baking soda, baking powder, salt, and flour until cookie batter is fully incorporated. Finally add chocolate chips until well distributed. Drop about 2 tablespoons of dough or use a medium cookie scoop and plop the batter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for 12-14 minutes until the edges are nice and golden brown. Remove from heat and allow the cookies to stay on the cookie sheet for an additional 2 minutes. Pick up the parchment paper with the cookies still on top and transfer to a cool non-porous surface. Allow the cookies to cool on the paper for at least 3 minutes before serving.

* about ten cookies had already been eaten (not all by me!) before I snapped some pics. My nephew (Jacob, not Caleb) even asked if he could have one as I was snapping away. Then proceeded to take a cookie…and the milk.