In this episode, we don’t cook but rather bake my recipe for American chocolate chip cookies. The formal name is Toll House cookies.
Here’s what you need to bake at least 20 Toll House cookies:
-400 grams cake flour
-3/4 teaspoon of baking powder, half a teaspoon of baking soda and half a teaspoon of salt
-250 grams of unsalted butter at room temperature
-180 grams of white refined sugar
-130 grams of brown sugar
-two eggs
-one teaspoon of vanilla extract
-100 grams of a good dark chocolate, but it doesn’t have to be too refined. No need to buy the most refined chocolate out there.
-Two or three handfuls of walnuts, chopped
Make the cookie dough: Combine the dry ingredients, flour, baking powder, soda and salt and set aside. Combine the white and brown sugar. Chop the chocolate (at least 100 grams but not more than 120 grams) into small pieces and chop the walnuts.
With a mixer, whip the butter until creamy. Gradually, blend in the sugar mix. Then, one by one, beat in the eggs and add the vanilla extract. You now have your butter base. Gradually mix in the flour mixture – either with your mixer or with a spatula – and presto you have your cookie dough. You may wish, as I did in the video, to add another tablespoon or two to make the dough more solid. With a spatula or even your washed hands, add the nuts and chocolate and then you are ready to form your cookies.
Preheat your oven to 190 degrees Celsius – I use the convection setting in my oven, as it’s faster. Next, shape your cookies using about a tablespoon of dough. How many cookies the dough yields varies according to how big your cookies are. Next, bake the cookies – mine take around 5-7 minutes – until they are brown on the edges. Some like them more well done, but do not overbake! Let cool and then share generously, your friends and family will love them.
Happy Baking!
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