Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Steps

• Dough: Cream the butter with the brown sugar and granulated sugar until light and fluffy.

  Tip: Give this a full 3 minutes. The sugar crystals are cutting air pockets into the butter, and that aeration is part of the lift.

• Dough: Beat in the eggs and vanilla.
• Dough: In a separate bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, and salt, then mix into the wet ingredients just until combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
• Chill: Cover and chill the dough at least 30 minutes (up to 24 hours).
  ⏱ Start 30 min timer

  Tip: Chilling firms up the butter so the cookies spread less and bake up thicker, and it also deepens the flavour.

• Bake: Scoop into golf ball-sized mounds, spaced well apart on a lined baking sheet, and bake at 175°C (350°F).
  ⏱ Start 11 min timer

  Tip: Pull them when the edges look set but the centres still look slightly underdone and pale — they firm up on the hot pan as they cool.

• Bake: Let cool on the pan 5 minutes before moving to a rack.
  ⏱ Start 5 min timer