The Best soft and fluffy chocolate chip cookie Recipe! They are essentially Cake Cookies which from what I hear are all the rage down in southern California. I started with a basic recipe and kept adding and subtracting things until they fluffed and puffed up to magical goodness. I hope you try my recipe and comment below how they turned out for you!
This is the best chocolate chip recipe ever – cookies come out soft and fluffy and the chips are amazing
Something smells good – mmm, nothing like the smell of fresh baked cookies, especially fluffy chocolate chip cookies. I remember when we were selling our first house a realtor and friend told us to stick a batch of cookies in the oven before every open house. Sounded like a great plan to me, except for the fact that we had a 2 year old and a 4 year old in the house to chase and pick up after.
These days we bake, and we bake, and then we bake some more. With 2 school aged gals, seems there’s always an occasion to bring cookies to. And if not we’ll just bake some to have around. In December I always have a cookie exchange party – it’s become a tradition since we’ve lived here in our 2nd home and we’re going on ten years now!
So how do you make the very Best super soft and fluffy chocolate chip cookies? Start with the best chocolate chips out there of course. We have tried them all and our all time favorite kind by far is ‘Guittard Milk Chocolate Baking Chips’. They are amazing. Our girls would finish the bag easily if we let them! I stash them away until we’re ready to bake. What’s so good about them? Um, …Everything! Yes, I am in love with these chocolate chips. First of all they are bigger than your average chocolate chip. They are smooth and silky and taste as good as Swiss chocolate. Hands down, I think the best chips out there. I would love them even if they didn’t come from our very own San Francisco.
Next you need a great recipe. When I find a good recipe I try it a bunch of times and add my own tweaks. This recipe is a variation of a recipe I found on Food.com for the Worlds Best Chocolate Chip Cookies. I like to add cinnamon to my chocolate chip cookie recipes – it gives just a hint of that delish Mexican chocolate flavor. I’m also a sucker for butter, the more the better – rich and yummy, so slab some more of that stuff in there too.
Ok so enough hinting around, here is the Recipe –
wet and dry ingredients plus quality chocolate chips
INGREDIENTS:
1 c. white sugar (I use a bit more less)
½ c. golden brown sugar, lightly packed
1 cup unsalted sweet cream butter
1 1/4 T. pure vanilla
2 eggs
1 T. of organic apple sauce
¼ c. buttermilk
3 1/2 cups white all-purpose flour
3/4 T. baking Soda
¾ t. salt
¼ t. cinnamon
3 c. milk chocolate chips (essentially the whole bag)
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven 350 degrees F
Cream the sugars and butter together, scraping the sides of bowl with rubber spatula
Add the eggs, vanilla and buttermilk and beat with a mixer.
Combine dry ingredients well (make sure the baking soda is mixed in well!) and integrate them into the creamy butter mixture.
Stir in the yummy chocolate chips
It’s helpful to put the dough in the fridge for a half an hour or so before forming your cookies – just wrap them in some wax paper and stash in the fridge
Spray baking oil on a cookie sheet or rub butter and sprinkle a tiny bit of flour
Roll dough into a ball about an inch and a half in diameter when it’s in a ball and about 2 inches across after you’ve flattened them down a bit
Bake about 10 minutes (be careful not to over bake, set your iPhone timer – I like to check on my cookies at 8 minutes and add a minute as needed because burnt cookies are so sad!
Cool a few minutes on the cookie sheet
Cool entirely on paper towels
Smell good, taste good, look, are so so good! Softest Chocolate Chip Cookies
Enjoy!
