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American Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: American Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 12 min
Yield: 24 cookies
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 250 g (2 cups) all-purpose flour; 170 g (3/4 cup) butter, melted; 150 g (3/4 cup) brown sugar; 100 g (1/2 cup) white sugar; 1 egg + 1 yolk; 1 tsp vanilla; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1/2 tsp salt; 200 g (1 1/4 cups) chocolate chips or chopped chocolate

Crisp edges, chewy centers

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👦 Baked by Axl

20m

Prep

12m

Bake

24 cookies

Makes

Easy

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🏛 A little history

The chocolate chip cookie was created by Ruth Wakefield at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts in the 1930s. The recipe was printed on Nestlé's chocolate packaging and became an American classic.

Generations of bakers have tweaked the formula — browning butter, resting the dough, mixing chocolate types — but the core remains a brown-sugar dough studded with chocolate.

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Whisk melted butter with both sugars until smooth.
Beat in egg, yolk, and vanilla.
Stir in flour, baking soda, and salt until just combined, then fold in the chocolate.
Chill the dough 30 minutes (optional but improves texture).
Scoop into balls on a lined sheet, spaced apart.
Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 10–12 minutes until edges are golden but centers look slightly underdone.
Cool on the tray 5 minutes to finish setting.

💡 Chef Axl's tips

Pull them when the centers look underbaked — they firm up on the tray.
A mix of chips and chopped bars gives pools of melted chocolate.

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All-Purpose Flour

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Chocolate Chips

Melty pockets of chocolate in every bite.

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American Chocolate Chip Cookies

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