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Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

Makes about 3 dozen.

  2 1/4 cups all-purposeflour

  1/2 teaspoon bakingsoda

  1 cup (2 sticks)unsalted butter, roomtemperature

  1/2 cup granulatedsugar

  1 cup packed light-brown sugar

  1 teaspoon salt

  2 teaspoons purevanilla extract

  2 large eggs

  2 cups (about 12

ounces) semisweetand/or milk chocolatechips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small bowl, whisk together the flour andbaking soda; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddleattachment, combine the butter with both sugars; beat on medium speeduntil light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low; add the salt, vanilla, and eggs.Beat until well mixed, about 1 minute. Add flour mixture; mix until justcombined. Stir in the chocolate chips.

2. Drop heaping tablespoon-size balls of dough about 2 inches apart on bakingsheets lined with parchment paper.

3. Bake until cookies are golden around the edges, but still soft in the center, 8to 10 minutes. Remove from oven, and let cool on baking sheet 1 to 2minutes. Transfer to a wire rack, and let cool completely. Store cookies in anairtight container at room temperature up to 1 week

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Double Chocolate Cookies

Oversize and ever-so-slightly underbaked, these cookies include big chunks of milk chocolate.

IngredientsMakes about 3 dozen.

  1 cup all-purpose flour

  1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder

  1/2 teaspoon baking soda

  1/2 teaspoon coarse salt

  1/2 pound good-quality milkchocolate, 4 ounces coarselychopped and 4 ounces cutinto 1/4-inch chunks

  1/2 cup (1 stick) unsaltedbutter

  1 1/2 cups sugar

  2 large eggs

  1 teaspoon pure vanillaextract

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Whisk together flour, cocoa powder,baking soda, and salt; set aside. Melt 4 ounces coarsely choppedchocolate with the butter in a small heatproof bowl set over a pan ofsimmering water; let cool slightly.

2. Put chocolate mixture, sugar, eggs, and vanilla in the bowl of anelectric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on mediumspeed until combined. Reduce speed to low; gradually mix in flourmixture. Fold in chocolate chunks.

3. Using a 1 1/2-inch ice cream scoop, drop dough onto parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing 2 inches apart. Bake until cookies are

flat and surfaces crack, about 15 minutes (cookies should be soft).Let cool on parchment on wire racks. Cookies can be stored betweenlayers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 3days.

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