Bakery Style Chocolate Chip and Pecan Cookies

Homemade Bakery Style Cookies that are big, thick, soft and chewy!

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Oh my you're going to love this cookie...but only if you love big, thick soft and chewy cookies!   This is an amazing recipe, once you make and eat these it'll be very hard for you to go back to an ordinary small, thin chocolate chip cookie.  You and I are going to go through a couple of steps in the directions so you understand what to expect before you make them.  First....

The recipe calls for melted butter, not soft butter, ....melted.  This is what makes the cookie very soft and chewy.  You're going to combine the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar and then beat them together until they are well blended.  This is going to take 3 to 5 minutes to do and when you're done the sugars and butter will be so well blended that the batter won't look grainy.  See the above picture?  Not grainy, no sign of melted butter that hasn't been incorporated. 

Next Step...

You're going to add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla to the sugar, butter batter.  You're going to beat the batter until it's light and very smooth, again this is going to take about 3 - 5 minutes. This step is going to make your cookies big and fat, trust me.

Step Three...

AFTER you sift the dry ingredients together, fold the flour into the batter JUST until incorporated.  Then fold in the chocolate chips and nuts.

Step Four

 

Measure the dough out with a quarter cup measuring cup, skim the top off and roll the dough into a ball, place on a parchment lined cookie sheet about three inches apart (remember these are big cookies). Bake at 325 degrees for about 15 - 17 minutes, until they look brown around the edges.  They may not look done in the center but that's ok, after baked they will sit on the cookie sheet about 10 minutes and bake more from the hot cookie sheet.  

Remove cookies from the baking sheet and allow to cool completely on a wire rack.

I hope this was helpful, I know the "how to pics" aren't great but it was a last minute decision. This recipe isn't complicated or hard, but I think it's helpful to actual see what the batter should look like along the way so you have no question whether you're beating the ingredients enough to get the right batter texture after each ingredient addition.  Now all that's left to do is...EAT THEM!!  Enjoy!

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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip and Pecan Cookies
Inspired By Allrecipes

Makes 14 cookies

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup unsalted butter, melted,cooled to room temperature
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 egg, room temperature
1 egg yolk, room temperature
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips or milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

Directions:

Preheat oven to 325 degrees.  Line 2 cookies sheets with parchment paper.

1. Sift together the dry ingredients ( flour,baking soda and salt)

2.  In the bowl of an electric mixer - cream together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until well incorporated, the batter won't be grainy and the melted butter will be incorporated.  This should take 3-5 minutes.

3.  Beat in the egg, egg yolk and vanilla till light and creamy.  This will take about 3-5 minutes.

4.  Fold the sifted dry ingredients into the batter until just incorporated.  Fold the chocolate chips and nuts into the batter.

5.  Measure the dough out with a 1/4 cup measuring cup, swiping off to level it.  Roll the dough into a ball with your hands and place on the parchment lined cookie sheet 3 inches apart.  Bake 15 -17 minutes until edges are brown.  Remove cookie sheet from the oven and place on a cooling rack to cool with cookies on it about 10 minutes.  Remove cookies from sheet to wire rack to cool completely.  Makes 14 big, fat chewy cookies.