The best recipe for chewy chocolate chip cookies is from Tasty. In developing this recipe, I have adapted the recipe from Tasty to reduce the sugar amount, but it is still super chewy. The winning proportion between flour, butter and sugar is 1:1:1.3 respectively. I have made another post that followed the exact sugar level of Tasty here.
And I have added nutritional yeast and use white wholewheat flour instead. Nutritional yeast is a deactivated food product made from the single-celled fungus Saccharomyces cerevisiae and has a naturally savory, nutty, and cheesy flavor profile. It is highly nutritious, especially high-quality protein, immune-boosting fibers and trace minerals, and it is low in Calories, Fats and Cholesterol. You can read more here.
Small Batch
Makes 7 large cookies or 32 medium cookies
Ingredients:
110g white whole wheat flour (You can also use plain wheat flour)
112g butter
145g sugar consisting of 100g brown sugar and 45g cane sugar
1 egg + 1 egg yolk
50g of chocolate chopped as desired (I use Premieur Chocolate Bar Dark 85%, but you can use any chocolate)
50g chopped walnuts, almonds or hazelnuts as desired (optional)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp Nescafe decaf coffee powder (optional)
1/2 tsp vanilla powder (optional)
1/2 tsp cocoa powder (optional)
1 TBS nutritional yeast (optional)
Large Batch
Makes 15 large cookies or 64 medium cookies
Ingredients:
220g white whole wheat flour (You can also use plain wheat flour)
225g butter
290g sugar consisting of 200g brown sugar and 90g white sugar
2 eggs + 2 egg yolks
100g of dark, milk and white chocolate chips
100g chopped walnuts or chopped almonds or hazelnuts (optional)
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp Nescafe decaf coffee powder (optional)
1 tsp vanilla powder (optional)
1 tsp cocoa powder (optional)
2 TBS nutritional yeast (optional)
Short Instructions:
Combined wet ingredients with dry ingredients. Don't overbeat the eggs.
Oven temperature: 175 degree Celsius
Bake Time: 12 minutes (large cookies) or 7 minutes (medium cookies) or until golden brown on the edges but the middle still look doughy.
Detailed Instructions:
1. In a separate bowl, mix flour, vanilla powder, Nescafe, cocoa powder, baking soda and nutritional yeast and set aside.
2. In a large bowl, beat butter, brown sugar and white sugar until combined and creamy. You can do by hand or machine.
3. Add egg and egg yolk and beat until incorporated.
4. Mix in the dry ingredients using a spatula or spoon until combined.
5. Add chocolate chips and chopped walnuts and mix well.
6. Refrigerate the dough for 1-2 hours or even overnight for optimal flavor (This step is if you want perfection, but the cookies still taste great skipping this step.)
7. Use a trigger-release ice-cream scoop (equivalent to 3 tablespoon size) to form 6 cookies on each tray. If you don't have an ice-cream scoop, not to worry, just use a spoon.
8. Bake at 175 degree Celsius for 12 - 15 minutes for large cookies or 7 minutes for medium cookies or until golden on the edges. Take them out when they are just barely starting to turn brown and still look doughy.
9. Let them sit on the baking tray for 2 minutes before moving them to a cooling rack.
10. Once cooled, enjoy :-)
Storage:
Store in an air-tight container. Will last up to 7 days. If you prefer your cookies to stay soft and chewy, place a fresh slice of white bread inside the airtight container with them. The cookies will absorb the moisture from the bread, keeping them perfectly soft for days without making them soggy.
Will last up to 3 months in the freezer sealed in air-tight container or heavy-duty freezer bag. Just let them thaw at room temperature for about 30 to 60 minutes before eating.
To get that "fresh out of the oven" taste, warm them up in the oven at 150°C (300°F) for 3-5 minutes just until they are warm and the chocolate begins to glisten. This perfectly restores the crisp edges while melting the chocolate chips without making the cookie soggy.
Additional Information:
Yeh, I am so happy I have finally succeeded in making chewy chocolate chip cookies, and they are even 100% wholewheat too!!
These 100% whole wheat chocolate chip cookies are very nutritious as they have much more protein, minerals and dietary fiber than the average non-wholewheat cookie, but they are still full of butter, sugar and chocolate. Thus they are dessert, not a main course or salad. You can call them a nutritious dessert :-)
I have failed many times while trying to bake the most chewy chocolate chip cookies, as they usually turned out cakey, instead of chewy *. So now I decided to follow this recipe from Tasty.co faithfully (apart from omitting salt since the butter I used is salted and adding cornstarch). I have left out the cornstarch, nut the cookies made from this recipe turned out so good - absolutely delicious, chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside. The downside is that this recipe is SINFULLY UNHEALTHY thanks to the amount of sugar used relative to other recipes that I have come across. I guess this must be the reason that gives it the chewy texture. Everyone at home loves them. These cookies are very addictive, but everyone is aware that this is only going to be for an occasional rare treat.
Cookie is made up mainly of flour, fat, sugar, but it is the wining combination of these ingredients that enables a cookie achieve the heavenly melt-in-your-mouth chewiness. The sugar content must be higher than the flour in order for the cookie to be chewy. I used 30% more sugar compared to flour. And to use the same amount of flour with the same amount of oil.
Here is the link to the original recipe:
I find that it is not necessary to go through the trouble to melt the butter over the stove top, that is too much work. I didn't heat or melt the butter. I simply used soft butter and I still achieved the heavenly "melt-in-your-mouth" chewiness.
I discovered after a few rounds of experiment that the "melt-in-your mouth" chewiness is mostly credited to the sugar content in the cookies. The greater the sugar content, the more chewy the cookie is. In general, the ratio of sugar to flour has to be higher, around 3:2, in order to achieve the "melt-in-your-mouth" chewiness that we all desire in a chocolate chip cookie.
I tried using the more nutritious white whole wheat flour instead of white flour. It turned out fantastically great and retained the same kind of "melt-in-your-mouth" chewiness.
For the small batch as reflected in the recipe above, I have reduced the sugar content to 145g consisting of 100g brown sugar and 45g granulated sugar and they still retain the same chewiness. The large batch recipe above also follows the same adjustment.
I also tried substituting butter with olive oil. The cookies still tasted good, soft but were no longer in the league of "melt-in-your-mouth" chewiness.
Refrigerating chocolate chip cookie dough overnight gives it more flavor primarily because enzymes break down large carbohydrates and proteins into simpler, more flavorful compounds while the dough slowly dries out, concentrating its taste. A 24-hour rest yields the most dramatic transformation in color, texture, and complex flavor.
When you let the cookie dough rest in the fridge, a few key scientific processes happen simultaneously to transform its flavor profile:
1. Breakdown of Flour (Enzymatic Hydrolysis)
As the dough rests, naturally occurring enzymes in the flour begin breaking down large, tasteless starch molecules into simple sugars like fructose and glucose. This breakdown enhances the overall sweetness and provides better fuel for Maillard browning and caramelization during baking, resulting in a rich, almost butterscotch-like depth of flavor. (https://www.seriouseats.com/cookie-dough-chilling-tests-11872674)
2. Moisture Evaporation and Concentration
Even when wrapped, a prolonged stay in the refrigerator allows free moisture in the dough to be absorbed by the flour or slowly evaporate. As the dough dries out slightly, the concentration of the remaining ingredients—like sugar, fat, vanilla, and salt—increases. This mimics the process of marinating, leaving you with a more concentrated and intense flavor. (https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2015/05/17/chilling-cookie-dough)
3. Flavor Melding
Freshly mixed dough tastes like its individual components sitting next to one another. Over 16 to 24 hours, the fats, extracts, and liquids fully emulsify and intermingle. This allows subtle aromatic flavors, like vanilla and the richness of the butter, to evenly distribute and permeate the entire mixture. (https://www.instagram.com/reels/C2TksB-MhYR/) (https://www.seriouseats.com/cookie-dough-chilling-tests-11872674)(https://www.reddit.com/r/seriouseats/comments/121x947/are_there_advantages_to_letting_cookie_dough_rest/)
4. Less Spreading
The butter solidifies completely. When baked, the fats melt much slower, preventing the cookies from turning into thin, flat puddles. (https://tastecooking.com/chill-cookie-dough-baking/)
5. Perfect Chewiness
The flour thoroughly hydrates by absorbing liquid from the eggs. At the same time, gluten strands relax, producing a cookie that is crisper on the edges and beautifully chewy in the center. (https://www.wkiri.com/today/?p=1154)
* Below are the three recipes that I have tried and the cookies turned out cakey :-(
References:
https://www.momontimeout.com/giant-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies_28/
https://www.bobsredmill.com/blog/baking-101/how-to-make-chewy-cookies/
https://bakerbettie.com/the-science-of-the-chocolate-chip-cookie/
https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/30254/difference-in-cookie-texture-if-we-use-melted-vs-softened-butter
https://www.purewow.com/food/how-to-keep-cookies-soft
https://www.seriouseats.com/cookie-science-how-do-eggs-affect-my-cookies
https://www.mytastednk.com/o/chokolade-sm%C3%A5kager-som-lidl-49285057.html
https://www.lidl.dk/p/bake-off-kager-og-soedt/triple-chocolate-chip-cookie/p34119
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U80aSRBAAY0
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/
https://thebalancednutritionist.com/whole-wheat-chocolate-chip-cookies/#wprm-recipe-container-11515
https://fooddoodles.com/thick-and-chewy-100-whole-wheat-chocolate-chip-cookies/
This is white whole wheat flour. You can also use plain flour, but I like to use this flour because it is more nutritious, provides more dietary fiber, and still achieve the same chewy "melt-in-your-mouth" mouth feel :-) You can buy it from Føtex Supermarket for 27 DKK a pack. It goes on offer quite frequently at 20 DKK. So watch out for the promotions :-)
Vanilla powder available from Føtex Supermarket
Dark chocolate available from Netto or Føtex Supermarket.
Nutritional yeast available from Urtehuset or any health store.
In a large mixing bowl, add 100g of brown sugar.
Add 45g of cane sugar.
Mix well.
Add 112g of softened butter
Mix until combined by hand or mixer.
Add an egg and an egg yolk.
Mix until combined by hand or hand-mixer. Don't over-beat.
In a separate bowl, add 110g of white whole wheat flour.
Add 1/2 teaspoon of cacao powder (optional).
Add 1/2 teaspoon of coffee powder (optional).
Add 1 tablespoon of nutritional yeast (optional).
Don't you think the colors look beautiful?
Mix well.
Mix in the flour. I like to sift it into the cookie dough, but it's probably not so necessary.
Now the dough is done.
Add chocolate chips anywhere between 25-50g as desired.
Add the chocolate chips into the dough.
Mix well.
Add 50g of desired nuts. They are so nutritious. It also provides a nice crunch.
Mix well.
Refrigerate the cookie dough for 1-2 hours or even overnight. This prevents over-spreading when the cookie is being baked in the oven.
Scoop into 9 large balls, but only place 6 dough balls on each tray, as they would spread as they are being baked. I like to use trigger-release ice-cream scoop, but using a spoon will do too.
You can decorate it with a few chocolate chips on each dough ball if you wish (optional)
Bake at 175 degree Celsius for 12 - 15 minutes for large cookies or 7 minutes for medium cookies or until golden on the edges, but soft and moist in the middle. Take them out when they are just barely starting to turn brown and still look doughy.
Let them sit on the baking tray for 2 minutes before removing to cooling rack.
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