Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

Total Time: 1 hr 9 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 9 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 30
• 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
• 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 6 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon hot water
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 large egg
• 1 cup all-purpose flour, plus
• 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour, on a humid day (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 6 ounces ghirardelli semisweet chocolate bars
• 1/2 cup walnuts (roasted)
• 1/2 cup pecans (roasted)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 375°f.
• 2 in a medium bowl, using an electric mixer, beat butter, sugars, salt, vanilla until well combines, but not until fluffy. add egg. beat for a couple of more seconds.
• 3 in a medium bowl, combine baking soda and hot water and stir. make sure that there are no big crumbles left over. let sit for a minute or two.
• 4 add flour to baking soda mixture. combine dry ingredients and wet ingredients and mix on low speed, just until absorbed.
• 5 when cutting chocolate do not use knife, since you’ll lose a lot of extra chocolate, instead break with your hands. should be about 1 cm big.
• 6 in small bowl, combine ¾ of the chocolate chunks to nuts, either use walnuts or pecans, and put aside the extra chunks. (for better taste, roast nuts on baking sheet at 375°f for 5 minutes. stir chocolate mixture into dough.)refrigerate for a half an hour.
• 7 shape the dough into 1 ½ inch balls, use a 1 ½ ice cream scoop so the dough pieces are all the same size, and drop them about 3 inches apart onto an ungreased baking sheet. add the remaining chocolate chunks on top of dough balls, about 3-4 chunks on each ball. bake 9-12 minutes or until golden. let sit for 5 minutes, then transfer to wire rack.