Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies

Do you love cookies? I know I do and I am very particular about what cookies I will eat. These chocolate chip cookies, are in my opinion... Amazing. If you have ever been subjected to eating hard or cakey choc chip cookies than you know exactly how frustrating shit cookies can be. In that light I worked for two days on perfecting a recipe that produces chewy, flavorful, beautiful cookies. I hope you enjoy them. This recipe should yield about 18-24 cookies.

Two Sticks of Thoroughly Softened Butter
1 Cup of Regular Granulated Sugar
1 Cup of Light Brown Sugar (packed into cup)
2 Large Eggs
2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
2 1/2 Cups of All Purpose Flour (Approximately)
2 Teaspoons Very Hot Water from the Tap
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2-3/4 Teaspoon of Salt
Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips (As much as you want)

Start off by preheating your oven to 350 degrees. It needs to be completely heated to get a good bake.

Get a large mixing bowl and put in your very (very) soft butter, sugar, and light brown sugar and mix it until it is smooth. You should use a spoon for this part because I find folding and mixing is the best method. It is important that you get it nice and creamy. If you don't do a good job on this step your cookies are fucked.

Now, beat in your eggs one at a time, and by one at a time I mean one egg completely beat in and then the other one. I find that a hand mixer on the first or second speed setting does a good job here.

Now take a clean measuring cup and dissolve your baking soda into your hot water and add it to the batter. Also at this point add your vanilla extract, and salt. Give it a few good stirs before you add your flour.

At this point we are going to add the flour. I add my flour one cup at a time. mixing it in completely between cups. After the second cup is added you need to add more a little bit at a time. If you add to much you will get cakey, hard cookies, and we don't want that. You're looking for a smooth texture which is loose but not runny, it should stick to the bowl when its held upside down, BUT it should not be to thick to comfortably stir by hand. I find the right amount is between two and a quarter and two and a half cups. Once you have your flour nicely mixed in add your chocolate chips and stir them in thoroughly.

Portion your cookies onto a cookie sheet (don't grease the pan!) using a tablespoon measuring spoon. You want the portions to be a heaping tablespoon. You don't need to flatten the cookies because they will spread out while they bake so just leave them in balls on the tray.

Everyone's oven is different so this step is kind of touchy. You need to bake the cookies until they are golden brown around the edges. Start by setting your timer for ten minutes, but your bake time could be between ten and fifteen minutes. My oven bakes them nicely in fourteen minutes. Check them in ten and then every minute after ten and keep track. I know I tell you not to check things in the oven to much but if you pay attention on the first batch then you won't even need to look at them until the timer dings on the rest of them.

Now you have awesome cookies. They will harden as they sit but put them in the microwave for about fifteen seconds, and you can enjoy soft chewy cookies anytime you want!