Baking the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie: Every Ingredient, Every Decision | Epicurious


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There are lots of things to consider when it comes to making chocolate chip cookies. Deciding which flour, sugar, leaveners, fats, …

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  1. Just John
    Just John says:

    My go-to recipe says soften the butter and then mix it with the sugar until blended, then the eggs, then the dry ingredients. Anyone have yeas or nays for this?

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  2. Sharron Bockman
    Sharron Bockman says:

    No offense to this presenter but I did not like this video. Part of the reason I like Epicurus videos is because they don’t judge or moralize. This felt like it was moralizing “clean” “organic” bs buzz word ingredients that are so expensive that this recipe isn’t even accessible to the average American. No thank you.

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  3. Daniel Jordan
    Daniel Jordan says:

    I mean I'm sure it's delicious, chef clearly knows her stuff. But I feel like the buckwheat is totally gratuitous. Just makes it way more expensive, and idk if it's the camera lighting or whatever, but I don't know how I feel about the color of the cookies

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  4. Cray-Fish
    Cray-Fish says:

    A head's up to this Pastry Chef; I would Never use ANY PAN SPRAY because if you Smell the Propellent you will Notice That
    It Smells Like " Propane " ! I would Never " want to Ingest " Any " Petroleum Product " into my System !

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  5. Cray-Fish
    Cray-Fish says:

    I would like to try that with a Top Flight Milk-Chocolate Ingredient such as Cadberry's or Hershey's Symphony bars !
    I don't know if That would be Practical in the Cooking, but if it worked out THAT would be a " Fantastic Chocolate Chip Cookie " !

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  6. Jahmia Funches
    Jahmia Funches says:

    Just a little too thin for me, if she chills the cookie dough balls then put them in the oven they will have a little thickness to them. It kinda defeats the purpose of a leavener.

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  7. Beach, Forest & Mountain
    Beach, Forest & Mountain says:

    To get a chewy cookie using almond flour, just add gelatine to the recipe. That way you have a chewy cookie that is low carb, but you also need to swap out the sugar for either erythritol, allulose or monkfruit sweetener to make it low carb.
    Just add 1 tablespoon of gelatine for every 1.5 cups of almond flour.

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  8. KillemDafoe
    KillemDafoe says:

    Seriously though, between the buckwheat flour, the organic fair trade sugar, the half pound of butter, fancy block chocolate, two different types of salt, and real vanilla extract, this is a $20 batch of cookies. That's not an exaggeration.

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  9. Nova Riverstone
    Nova Riverstone says:

    I'm sorry but this seems to be really unfair against people that are poor all those ingredients are organic or branded and I'm sorry but I've made plenty of great foods without all the brands and organic produce since I can't afford that neither has my family so we learned how to build flavor with what we had

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  10. Selina
    Selina says:

    The buckwheat flour I'm willing to keep an open mind about, but the misinformation about organic brown sugar and her choice of American butter over that block of European butter… nah.

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  11. Dante Thunderstone
    Dante Thunderstone says:

    Organic does not make a difference, ingredient quality does. Higher quality ingredients will be better and usually organic ingredients are higher quality but not because they’re organic but simply because they’re smaller operations that can focus more on quality than quantity. That whole spiel was just economic discrimination, same with the vanilla bit because unless it’s a very dominant flavour in whatever you’re making(which it’s not in chocolate chip cookies) then you will not notice a difference.

    If you’re going to make a “how to make a perfect ___” series then consider switching to a format more like Benjamin the baker where instead of having a guest throw their (often times bad) opinions at us, you have someone knowledgeable show how different ingredients or methods will effect the final outcome and then give suggestions on what will actually give you the best results instead of the most buzz words like ms chemicals here

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  12. Brandon Robinson
    Brandon Robinson says:

    I love how she thinks the organic brown sugar is somehow different when ALL brown sugar is refined and then has molasses added back into it…. Exactly like the brown sugar she didn’t like.
    😂

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