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Mili's Next-Level, Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mili Takashima

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

Instructions
 

  • 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.
  • Add the eggs, one at a time.
  • Combine the salt, baking soda, and flour. Mix until smoothed-out.
  • Mix in all three cups of chocolate chips.
  • If you are ready to bake now, preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  • 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.
  • Bake for 9-11 minutes, depending on your own oven.
  • Once from the oven and before they are cooled, take a pinch of coarse salt and sprinkle over each cookie.