Thick & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Title: Thick & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 18 servings

2 1/8 c Flour 2 c.+2t. unsifted
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Baking soda
12 tb Butter; melted/cooled
1 c Brown sugar; light or dark
1/2 c Granulated sugar
1 lg Egg plus
1 Egg yolk
2 ts Vanilla extract
1 c Chocolate chips; (1 to 2)

Recipe by: COOK'S ILLUSTRATED
Turn oven 325 deg and adjust oven racks to upper & lower middle
positions.
1. Mix flour & soda in bowl. set aside.
2. mix butter & sugars until thoroughly blended. mix in egg, yolk, &
vanilla.
3. add dry ingredients mix until just blended
4. add chips
5. form scant 1/4 cup dough ball. holding ball using fingertips of both
hands, pull the ball apart in equal halves. rotate 90 degrees and , with
jagged ends up put back together at base to make single cookie. you want
the topsuneven ; 6. make about 9 per sheet on parchment paper
7. bake reversing cookie sheets position halfway through baking, until
cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden, yet centers
are soft & puffy, 15 to 18 min. start checking at 13 min.
These are great. Kathy

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