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Mili Takashima

Mili's Next-Level, Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup salted butter, softened two sticks (For dairy free cookies, substitute for 1 cup vegan butter.) If using vegan butter, the cookie dough must be refrigerated for at least an hour before baking.
  • 1 cup packed dark brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon pure vanilla bean powder
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 2 whole eggs
  • 1 and 1/2 teaspoons coarse kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 and 1/4 cups all purpose flour (For gluten free cookies, substitute with gluten free flour mix, with a 1:1 ratio.)
  • 1 and 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips (40% cocoa or higher)
  • 1 and 1/2 cups dark chocolate chips (50% cocoa or higher)
  • pinch more coarse kosher salt or Himalayan sea salt to top the cookies after they are baked. for after cookies are baked

Method
 

  1. With the use of a bowl and wooden spoon, hand mixer, or standing mixer with a metal mixing attachment, smooth out/cream the softened butter. Add the brown sugar and the granulated sugar, pure vanilla bean powder and pure vanilla extract. Cream and mix until totally combined.
  2. Add the eggs, one at a time.
  3. Combine the salt, baking soda, and flour. Mix until smoothed-out.
  4. Mix in all three cups of chocolate chips.
  5. If you are ready to bake now, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  6. Scoop and form the cookie dough into individual "pucks" that are the desired size. Line them up with parchment paper and seal and bake right away. I recommend refrigerating the pucks for at least one hour or over night before baking. This helps develop the ingredients. Keep "3" in mind for freshness-sake. So, if you want to have the pucks ready to go in the fridge to bake on-demand, keep them sealed for 3 days. If you want to have the pucks ready to go from the freezer to bake on-demand, keep them sealed for up to three months.
  7. Bake for 9-11 minutes, depending on your own oven.
  8. Once from the oven and before they are cooled, take a pinch of coarse salt and sprinkle over each cookie.