Choc chip cookies that stay chewy

[Anonymous]

Toll house recipe always gave me chewy cookies

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These answers are all wrong. Sorry to sound rude, but I found out after years of baking chocolate chip cookies for my family at Christmas. The trick is to keep your dough cold while baking. Make your dough (with real butter) in advance. Refrigerate it. I make mine the night before I’m going to bake. Then if you’re making multiple trays of cookies, let your cookie sheet cool down after you take the first batch, it only takes a minute or two. Then take your dough out of the fridge and scoop your second batch of cookies. Your dough goes back in the fridge while that batch bakes. It has to stay cold until it’s in the oven. Keep repeating until the dough is all gone. These cookies will have the crispy edge and the chewy texture you want in a chocolate chip cookie.

Your “trick” of keeping the batter and cookie sheet cold/cool works because if the dough and sheet are hot, the butter will melt, causing the cookie to spread and thin, becoming crisp. Keeping the dough cold and the sheet cool will mitigate that. Using parchment paper will keep it cooler as well. Molasses/brown sugar instead of granulated sugar adds moisture.

Strangely, making cookies with melted butter instead of softened butter will actually give you a dense chewy cookie because the melted butter coats each grain of flour and the water in the butter activates the gluten, increasing the chewiness. If you do this, definitely refrigerate the dough before baking.

+1. This recipe from Alton Brown works, and the secret is melted butter and using bread flour (for more gluten) and refrigerating the dough.

https://altonbrown.com/recipes/the-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookie/

[Anonymous]

These are the best CC cookies ever! They stay chewy in the center.

https://savorysweetlife.com/alices-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Toll house recipe always gave me chewy cookies

I was coming to post this. Follow the instructions and you will get chewy chocolate chip cookies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a higher ratio of brown sugar makes them chewier.

+1. White sugar makes crisp and brown makes chewy. So I switch the tollhouse recipe to 1 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These answers are all wrong. Sorry to sound rude, but I found out after years of baking chocolate chip cookies for my family at Christmas. The trick is to keep your dough cold while baking. Make your dough (with real butter) in advance. Refrigerate it. I make mine the night before I’m going to bake. Then if you’re making multiple trays of cookies, let your cookie sheet cool down after you take the first batch, it only takes a minute or two. Then take your dough out of the fridge and scoop your second batch of cookies. Your dough goes back in the fridge while that batch bakes. It has to stay cold until it’s in the oven. Keep repeating until the dough is all gone. These cookies will have the crispy edge and the chewy texture you want in a chocolate chip cookie.

Your “trick” of keeping the batter and cookie sheet cold/cool works because if the dough and sheet are hot, the butter will melt, causing the cookie to spread and thin, becoming crisp. Keeping the dough cold and the sheet cool will mitigate that. Using parchment paper will keep it cooler as well. Molasses/brown sugar instead of granulated sugar adds moisture.

Strangely, making cookies with melted butter instead of softened butter will actually give you a dense chewy cookie because the melted butter coats each grain of flour and the water in the butter activates the gluten, increasing the chewiness. If you do this, definitely refrigerate the dough before baking.

Well I don’t know how or why it works, but it does and I figured it out after making lots of chocolate chip cookies over the years. Haven’t ever tried using melted butter though, that’s interesting! I do always line my cookie sheets with parchment paper though too. But never noticed a difference until I used the cold dough and cold cookie sheets for baking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These answers are all wrong. Sorry to sound rude, but I found out after years of baking chocolate chip cookies for my family at Christmas. The trick is to keep your dough cold while baking. Make your dough (with real butter) in advance. Refrigerate it. I make mine the night before I’m going to bake. Then if you’re making multiple trays of cookies, let your cookie sheet cool down after you take the first batch, it only takes a minute or two. Then take your dough out of the fridge and scoop your second batch of cookies. Your dough goes back in the fridge while that batch bakes. It has to stay cold until it’s in the oven. Keep repeating until the dough is all gone. These cookies will have the crispy edge and the chewy texture you want in a chocolate chip cookie.

Your “trick” of keeping the batter and cookie sheet cold/cool works because if the dough and sheet are hot, the butter will melt, causing the cookie to spread and thin, becoming crisp. Keeping the dough cold and the sheet cool will mitigate that. Using parchment paper will keep it cooler as well. Molasses/brown sugar instead of granulated sugar adds moisture.

Strangely, making cookies with melted butter instead of softened butter will actually give you a dense chewy cookie because the melted butter coats each grain of flour and the water in the butter activates the gluten, increasing the chewiness. If you do this, definitely refrigerate the dough before baking.

Technically all chocolate chip cookie dough should be chilled for 24 hours. Something something sets up in the dough.

[Anonymous]

This is probably way more information than you want: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-best-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe

But the answer might be a small amount of corn syrup if you want the wide flexible cookies. Or more butter or egg for denser fudgier cookies.

[Anonymous]

Sally uses corn starch (and also melted butter) in some of her recipes for this very reason.

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is probably way more information than you want: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-food-lab-best-chocolate-chip-cookie-recipe

But the answer might be a small amount of corn syrup if you want the wide flexible cookies. Or more butter or egg for denser fudgier cookies.

These are, indeed, the best chocolate chip cookies. Probably not chewy enough for OP, though.