Ingredients
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2 cups tbsps all-purpose flour
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2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
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1/2 teaspoon baking soda
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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12 tablespoons butter, melted and cooled to warm
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1 cup packed light brown sugar
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1/2 cup granulated sugar
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2 teaspoons vanilla extract
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1 -1 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
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1 large egg yolk
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1 egg yolk
Instructions
- Adjust oven racks to upper and lower middle positions.
- Heat oven to 325*.Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt together in medium bowl, set aside.
- Either by hand or electric mixer, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly blended. Beat in egg, yolk and vanilla until combined.
- Add dry ingredients and beat at low speed just until combined.
- Stir in chips to taste.
- Roll scant 1/4 cup of dough into ball.Holding dough ball in fingertips of both hands, pull into 2 equal halves. rotate 90* and with jagged edges facing up, join halves together at their base, again forming a single ball being careful not to smooth dough's uneven surface.
- Place formed dough onto cookie sheet, leaving 2 1/2" between each ball.
- Bake, reversing position of cookie sheets halfway through baking, until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy -- 15-18 minutes.
- Cool cookies on sheets . When cooled, peel cookies from parchment -- .