Thomas Keller Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe 445

Steps:

• Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 375°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment or wax paper.
• Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl.
• Beat together butter and sugars in a large bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until pale and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Lightly beat 1 egg with a fork in a small bowl and add 1 3/4 tablespoons of it plus 2 remaining whole eggs to butter mixture, beating with mixer until creamy, about 1 minute. Beat in vanilla. Reduce speed to low and mix in flour mixture until just blended, then stir in chips.
• Scoop 1/4 cup batter for each cookie, arranging mounds 3 inches apart, on 2 baking sheets. Flatten mounds into 3-inch rounds using moistened palm of your hand. Form remaining cookies on additional sheets of parchment.
• Bake, 1 sheet at a time, until golden, 13 to 15 minutes. Transfer cookies to a rack to cool and continue making cookies in same manner using cooled baking sheets.

Steps:

• Position the racks in the lower and upper thirds of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. In a small bowl, sift the flour and baking soda. Stir in salt and set aside. Put the chopped chocolate in a fine-mesh strainer and shake to remove the small chocolate 'dust' fragments. Set aside. In a large bowl, Beat half the butter ( 1 stick ) on medium speed until smooth. Add both sugars and remaining butter, and beat until well combined. Continue to beat for about 3 more minutes till light and creamy. Scrape down the sides and beat in the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the dry ingredients on low and mix to combine. I had to add mine a little but at a time. Mix in the chocolate with a large spatula and keep folding it in until the chocolate is evenly incorporated. Using about 2 level tablespoons per cookie, shape into balls. Arrange the cookies 2 inches apart. Bake for 12 minutes, or until the tops are no longer shiny. Switch the position of the pans ( lower to upper ) and rotate halfway through baking time. For my cookies, I set the timer for 12 minutes exactly. After 6 minutes I switched and rotated without pausing the timer. This resulted in the perfect cookie texture.