Thursday, September 19, 2024

Half-n-Half Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies











chocolate chocolate chip cookies on white parchment
baked cookies on parchment paper

These are the Half-n-Half Chocolate Chip Cookies I’ll be making for the Bake a Distinction occasion on Nov. 5 from 1 to three p.m. with my good friend Zoe Francois (I hope you’ll be a part of even if you happen to’re not within the Twin Cities)! They’re half double chocolate cookies, half gooey chocolate chip cookie, primarily based off my Chocolate Chip Cookie 2.0 recipe that so a lot of you like.

Sarah Kieffer, author of 100 cookies in her kitchen
picture by Caitlin Abrams

We’ll be baking some wonderful desserts( Zoe might be making Basque Cheesecake with Roasted Pumpkin!) and elevating cash for Jose Andres’s World Central Kitchen.

From environmental catastrophes to upheaval across the globe, each penny raised helps World Central Kitchen present meals in response to humanitarian, local weather, and neighborhood crises.

How To Assemble The Cookie Dough:

  • In a big bowl, mix the melted butter, granulated and brown sugars, and salt. Combine to mix. Add the egg, yolk, vanilla, baking powder, and baking soda, and whisk collectively till completely mixed. Add the flour and stir in till mixed. Add the chopped chocolate and stir once more. It might take a minute to include the entire chocolate, and you should utilize your palms to knead it into the dough if mandatory.

For the Double Chocolate Dough

  • Comply with the instructions above for the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough (you may even use the identical bowl!), however add the cocoa powder to the dough together with the sugars and salt.

To Assemble

  • Kind the dough into balls, about 1 tablespoons every [25 g]. Press one ball of the Chocolate Chip Dough and one ball of the Double Chocolate Dough collectively, however hold their distinctive colours. Press the piece right into a cookie scoop or roll it right into a ball. Place 8 cookies on every sheet pan. Sprinkle every cookie with somewhat flaky salt, if desired.
half and half cookie dough in cookie scoop
cookie dough balls on baking sheet

Measuring Flour

All through my recipes posted on this web site, 1 cup of flour equals 142g. Please word that 1 cup of flour can vary wherever from 120g to 142g, relying on the baker or web site. I discovered that after weighting many cups of flour and averaging the full, mine all the time ended up round this quantity. If I’m posting a recipe from one other cookbook, I’ll use no matter gram measure of flour utilized in that guide, which is why you might even see a couple of posts with a distinct cup measurement. 

Totally different manufacturers of flour have various ranges of protein, starting from low to excessive, which may end up in very completely different outcomes when baking. I’ve discovered Gold Medal all-purpose unbleached flour to be the best choice for a lot of of my recipes; I take advantage of it in all of the baked items that don’t use yeast. For yeasted doughs that decision for all-purpose flour, I like to make use of King Arthur Model. If you’re utilizing White Lily flour, please word that it’s a low protein flour and doesn’t soak up liquid the identical as common all-purpose flours. Verify the again of the flour bag for directions on substituting it for normal all-purpose flours. 

Making the Cooking Dough Forward + Freezing

Cookie dough might be shaped and refrigerated in a single day, then baked the subsequent day; the cookies may have an additional minute to bake if chilled. Cookie dough will also be shaped into balls and frozen for as much as two weeks: let the cookies sit out at room temperature till the oven preheats. The cookies will want an additional minute if baked frozen.

half and half chocolate chocolate chip cookies on marble board

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Chocolate Chip Dough

  • 9 tablespoons [126 g] unsalted butter, melted and cooled barely
  • 3/4 cup [150 g] granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup [150 g] brown sugar
  • 3/4 teaspoon nice salt
  • 1 giant egg
  • 1 giant egg yolk
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 2 cups [284 g] all-purpose flour*
  • 7 oz [200 g] semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
  • Flaky salt, for sprinkling, non-compulsory

Double Chocolate Dough

  • 9 tablespoons [126 g] unsalted butter, melted and cooled barely
  • 3/4 cup [150 g] granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup [150 g] brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup [50 g] Dutch-process cocoa powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon nice salt
  • 1 giant egg
  • 1 giant egg yolk
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cup [213 g] all-purpose flour
  • 7 oz [200 g] semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate, chopped
  • Flaky salt, for sprinkling, non-compulsory

Chocolate Chip Dough

  • In a big bowl, mix the melted butter, granulated and brown sugars, and salt. Combine to mix. Add the egg, yolk, vanilla, baking powder, and baking soda, and whisk collectively till completely mixed. Add the flour and stir in till mixed. Add the chopped chocolate and stir once more. It might take a minute to include the entire chocolate, and you should utilize your palms to knead it into the dough if mandatory.

For the Double Chocolate Dough

To Assemble

  • Regulate an oven rack to the center of the oven and preheat the oven to 400F [200C]. Line three sheet pans with parchment paper.

  • Kind the dough into balls, about 1 tablespoon every [25 g]. Press one ball of the Chocolate Chip Dough and one ball of the Double Chocolate Dough collectively, however hold their distinctive colours. Press the piece right into a cookie scoop or roll it right into a ball. Place 8 cookies on every sheet pan. Sprinkle every cookie with somewhat flaky salt, if desired.

  • Bake one pan at a time, rotating midway via baking. Bake till the cookie tops are golden brown and the cookies are barely puffed within the center, about 10 minutes. Take away the baking sheet from the oven and use the again of a spoon to softly press the center of every cookie to flatten it.

  • Let the cookies relaxation on the sheet pan for five minutes, then switch them to a wire rack to complete cooling. Cookies are finest eaten barely heat, however might be saved in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days.

  • Cookies will soften the longer they sit. Cookie dough might be shaped and refrigerated in a single day, then baked the subsequent day; the cookies may have an additional minute to bake if chilled. Cookie dough will also be shaped into balls and frozen for as much as two weeks: let the cookies sit out at room temperature till the oven preheats. The cookies will want an additional minute if baked frozen.

Variation: Double Chocolate Mint Cookies – add 1 teaspoon (kind of to style) to the double chocolate dough base, together with the vanilla. Bake as directed. The mint taste actually shines via if baking the double chocolate base by itself (not mixing it with the chocolate chip cookie dough base), however is extra muted as a half and half cookie. 
*All through my recipes posted on this web site, 1 cup of flour equals 142g. Please word that 1 cup of flour can vary wherever from 120g to 142g, relying on the baker or web site. I discovered that after weighting many cups of flour and averaging the full, mine all the time ended up round this quantity. If I’m posting a recipe from one other cookbook, I’ll use no matter gram measure of flour utilized in that guide, which is why you might even see a couple of posts with a distinct cup measurement. 
Totally different manufacturers of flour have various ranges of protein, starting from low to excessive, which may end up in very completely different outcomes when baking. I’ve discovered Gold Medal all-purpose unbleached flour to be the best choice for a lot of of my recipes; I take advantage of it in all of the baked items that don’t use yeast. For yeasted doughs that decision for all-purpose flour, I like to make use of King Arthur Model. If you’re utilizing White Lily flour, please word that it’s a low protein flour and doesn’t soak up liquid the identical as common all-purpose flours. Verify the again of the flour bag for directions on substituting it for normal all-purpose flours. 
*I want to sprinkle the flaky salt on the tops of the cookies earlier than baking vs after – I believe it helps deliver out extra taste with out tasting overwhelmingly salty. 
*Valrhona’s Equatorial Darkish Chocolate feves are wonderful right here, however your favourite chocolate may even work. Chocolate chips may even work. 









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