We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon




We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon



It’s a tricky life, but we did it to bring you the premiere chocolate chip cookie recipes.


As part of the method of growing the finest chocolate chip cookies ever, I baked 10 famous existing cookie recipes and held a blind taste test for forty of my co-workers.

The 10 recipes got here from all over the cookie spectrum. There was the New York Times’ top choose the Nestlé Toll apartment version that we all grew up with, and favorites from Bon Appétit and bloggers like Tara O’Brady of Seven Spoons.

I wanted to include anything for everybody because even though I’ve spent many years as a professional recipe creator I know that not each person is necessarily looking for the same kind of cookie. For this test, I requested my co-workers to flavor all 10, then choose their absolute favorite.


To keep things as even as feasible I created a few simple parameters when it got here to the exact baking.

I used the same size cookie scoop for all the cookies, as well as the same manufacturers of additives I baked off and tried one cookie right away, but for the sake of even testing I chilled all the dough for 24 hours before baking.

The tasting was “blind” so that no one knew which recipe was which. Here’s what the tasting plate looked like.




We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon
The greatest thing I discovered was that there are 4 types of chocolate chip cookies that americans love to eat. They are:

• A basic chocolate chip cookie, with crispy edges, a chewy injuries, and a toffee taste throughout
• A crispy cookie that’s packed with further butter and sugar
• A cushy, bakery-style cookie that is sugary and has no crunch to it at all
• A cakey cookie that is someplace among a slice of cake and a comfortable chocolate chip cookie.



The first 3 recipes under pulled forward as clean winners of the flavor test. Read about why our tasters enjoyed them, and get hyperlinks to all the recipes below.


1. primary, Great Chocolate Chip Cookies From the Seven Spoons Cookbook, by Tara O’Brady


We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon


The backstory: The recipe comes from blogger Tara O’Brady’s Seven Spoons cookbook. When this cookbook got here out, I noticed beautiful images of these cookies all over Instagram and knew that I had to understand it them. Turns out there was a reason: These cookies won in a landslide victory for favourite cookie.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Buttery, toasty, and toffee-like.”
• “Crunch on the entrance, goo all over the place else. Divine.”
• “This is like a caricature cookie: high-quality shape and the flavor is faultless. Wouldn’t fall aside, would be there for me.”

Get the recipe here.



2. Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies from the Milk Bar Life cookbook, by Christina Tosi
We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon


The backstory: New York-based bakery Momofuku Milk Bar frequently has lines out the door for pastry chef Christina Tosi’s whimsical creations like Crack Pie and Cereal Milk Frozen Yogurt.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Very pretty, nubby and chewy with salt up entrance and strong vanilla.”
• “It is gooey however additionally crunchy and completely has sufficient chocolate vibes.”
• comfortable and yum.”

This recipe was on the printed in her e-book, Milk Bar Life, however you can find the recipe online over at  Foodie Crush.


3. Salty Chocolate Chunk Cookies from Bon Appétit, by Alison Roman


We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon



The backstory: If you love a crispy cookie, then these are for you. The recipe was created by Alison Roman, kinds( of BuzzFeed perpetratorall over her tenure at Bon Appétit.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Salty, toasty, buttery.”
• “Oh fuck, it’s perfect,” “It tasted advanced and more dynamic — like this cookie increased me to an alternate level.”
• “It was erroneous salty and in particular candy
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Get the recipe here.



4. Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies From Serious Eats, by J. Kenji López-Alt


We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon


The backstory: J. Kenji López-Alt is a sort of mad genius in the kitchen. His Food Lab column over at Serious Eats is a must-read for cooking geeks because he delves into the hows and whys of recipes with nerdy granularity. This recipe was the result of months and months of testing, and the payoff is a somewhat complicated, totally delicious cookie.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Oh boy. Crispy and chocolatey. Come to Papa. Toffee-ish, salty — this cookie had all my favorite qualities.”
• “Perfect shade of brown, toffee AF, and also, like, browned butter?”
• “So much butter! (In a good way) LOVE the gooeyness.”

Get the recipe here.


5. Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies From Cook’s Illustrated


We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon



The backstory: Cook’s Illustrated is basically Mecca for food geeks like me, so including their “perfect” chocolate chip cookie in the taste test was essential. After many rounds of testing they settled on browned butter for a nutty note and one egg and one yolk to enhance chewiness.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Love! So much chocolate. Hell yes. I also like the dark color.”
• “Perfect balance between gooey and a bit crunchy. Loved the salty kick.”
• “Chocolaty but not too sweet.”

Get the recipe here. (You’ll need a subscription to access the recipe.)



6. Chocolate Chip Cookies from the New York Times, by Jacques Torres


We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon


The backstory: When the New York Times published famous pastry chef Jacques Torres’s recipe for chocolate chip cookies back in 2008, it started a mini-revolution. Even though professional bakers commonly wait 24 hours (or more) to bake their cookie dough, this article brought the trick to light.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Awesome. Crunchy, kind of chewy, good salt. I would be pleased if I made this.”
• “Flood of chocolate.”
• “Nice crunch with a soft, chewy inside.”

Get the recipe here.


7. The Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie by Alton Brown

We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon


The backstory: You may be familiar with food scientist Alton Brown, who has the show Good Eats on Food Network. He’s a recipe perfectionist, and this cookie is perfect for people who want a chewy cookie with crispy edges.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Chewy, buttery, lots of chocolate.”
• “Super caramel-y, heavy brown sugar.”
• “Chocolaty, velvety…all I can think about is the chocolate.”

Get the recipe here.



8. Chocolate Chip Cookies From Nestlé Toll House, by Ruth Wakefield

We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon

The backstory: If you grew up in the U.S., then you’ve doubtless eaten one of these cookies. (The recipe runs on the lower back of Nestlé chocolate chip baggage. The legend is goingthat Ruth Wakefield, one of the householders of the Toll condo Inn, chopped a chocolate bar and folded them into her drop cookies, thinking that the chocolate would soften into the batter. No such good fortune — the chopped chocolate stayed in place. The result was a gigantic success, and this American traditional was born.

Here’s what the tasters said:
• “Golden and sky's theseems like a classic.”
• “This tastes like what a cookie should be: perfect quantity of chewy and crispy.”
• “Grandmother-y. The epitome of a respectable cookie.”

Get the recipe here.


9. Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies by Pinch of Yum


We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon


The backstory: At last count, these cookies by blogger Pinch of Yum have 350K-plus repins on Pinterest.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Oh fuck, I like this a lot. Soft, tastes cheap, and classic.”
• “Looks store-bought and tastes like it.”
• “Cakey, really good.”

Get the recipe here.


10. Chocolate Chip Cookies by David Lebovitz

We Held A Chocolate Chip Cookie Taste-A-Thon

The backstory: David Lebovitz is a Paris-based pastry chef who’s written a couple of dessert cookbooks. 
These cookies call for almonds, however can be made without, 
which I did for the sake of standardization.

Here’s what tasters had to say:
• “Compact and chewy.”
• “Very chocolaty, however battle through finish.”
• “The flavor is high-quality and gentle, however it lacks oomph.”

Get the recipe here.

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