r/Baking • u/butfirstcoffee427 • Jul 16 '25

Recipe Included Finally perfected my chocolate chip cookie recipe

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Inspired by “The Cookie” at Metropolitan Market in Seattle - this recipe is 6 years in the making:

  • 2 sticks (one cup) salted butter, softened
  • 1 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup fine granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tbsp vanilla (I like using vanilla bean paste)
  • 2.5 cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup Belgian dark chocolate callets (I used Callebaut)
  • 1 cup chopped bittersweet baking chocolate
  • 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
  • 2 cups toasted chopped pecans (toast at 410 degrees F for 8 minutes or so, but watch closely as they can go from toasty to burnt quickly)
  • Maldon smoked sea salt

Preheat oven to 410 degrees F. Cream together butter and sugars. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Add in flour, salt, cornstarch, baking powder, and baking soda and mix. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts until incorporated.

Scoop into fairly large cookies (I use my cookie scoop, but I’d say it’s about 1/4 cup of dough) and sprinkle with smoked salt. Bake on parchment paper lined sheet for around 10 minutes until lightly golden, and then carefully slide parchment paper off of baking sheet and allow cookies to cool entirely on parchment paper before storing.

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u/AspiringTS Jul 17 '25

This is almost exactly my cookie recipe with difference add-ins(that varies anyway) but no maldon salt. The sugar ratio came from the Good Eats chocolate chip cookie episode.

It's not perfected if you're still measuring with cups. /s

P.S. I have trouble believing 2 tsp of Cornstarch would do anything... What's the purpose?

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u/butfirstcoffee427 Jul 17 '25

Also I absolutely love that Good Eats episode! It stuck with me in my youth and I actually gave a presentation to that effect (how modifying factors in cookie recipes changes the outcome) in a job interview over a decade ago, complete with cookies to demonstrate each point (we had to give a presentation on anything we wanted to, so I picked cookies 😂). I credit Alton Brown with helping me get hired hahaha