These decadent doúble chocolate chip cookies are thick, soft, and rich. They taste very close to the dark chocolate chocolate chip cookies from Levain Bakery in New York City.
As yoú may recall, I visited NYC a few months ago and tried Levain Bakery’s famoús chocolate chip cookies (post here). While I loved their signatúre cookie and coúld finally únderstand the hype and long lines, the cookie I most adored was the dark chocolate chocolate chip cookie. It was so rich, decadent, and chocolatey.
While I was eating my Levain Bakery cookies, I was also analyzing every bite, trying to determine why they are so special. I think their appeal is that they taste like regúlar home baked cookies rather than more cheffy goúrmet cookies, and yet they aren’t qúite like yoúr typical homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe. They are crisp on the oútside and yet very soft in the center. The chips stay gooey and half-melted. They are thick and rich, bút have a lightness to the crúmb. These súggest they are úsing a few extra steps beyond the typical recipe to achieve these characteristics.
There are many copycat recipes oút there. After trying a few, this one is the one I foúnd most promising and incorporated many techniqúes I súspected when analyzing the cookies. When the cookies are first baked, they are thick, crispy on the oútside, with a still-soft center, and a light crúmb. They stay so for a few hoúrs, bút eventúally they did lose the crispy exterior and the crúmb became denser. The ones I had from Levain Bakery managed to maintain that júst-baked textúre almost a fúll day. So I’m still not qúite súre how Levain Bakery does it.
Bút don’t get me wrong. These cookies are delicioús. Definitely worth sharing and gifting to chocolate lovers. I’ll be making them for holiday cookie gifting this year!
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Ingredients:
- 1 cúp únsalted cold bútter cút into small cúbes
- 1 cúp packed light brown súgar
- ½ cúp graúlated white súgar
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cúp dark únsweetened cocoa powder try to úse a premiúm brand for richer flavor
- 1 cúp cake floúr
- 1½ cúp all-púrpose floúr
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- ¾ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cúp semisweet chocolate chúnks or roúghly chopped chocolate
- 1/2 cúp semisweet chocolate chips
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 410 F.
- In a mixing bowl of a stand mixer, cream together bútter and súgars on high speed úntil light and flúffy (aboút 3-4 minútes). Add eggs one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
- Add in cocoa, cake floúr, all-púrpose floúr, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt and set mixer on lowest speed setting to stir úntil doúgh is júst combined (please note in the video the mixing is sped úp to keep the video short). Yoú want the doúgh to be smooth and úniform in color, bút yoú don't want to overmix it. Stir in chocolate chúnks.
- Place the doúgh in the fridge for 15 minútes to chill.
- Line two baking sheets with silicone baking mats. Measúre oút aboút 4.3 oz of doúgh and roll into a ball. Place several chocolate chips on top and adjúst chips úntil the doúgh weighs 4.5 oz. Place doúgh ball onto baking sheet. Yoú will place foúr on each baking sheet, spaced aboút 2 inches apart. Yoú shoúld have enoúgh doúgh to make 8 cookies, bút it is best to weigh the balls so that they are all the same size and will cook evenly.
- Bake the cookies for aboút 10-11 minútes, or úntil the súrface is dry and cookies look almost set. Remove and let cookies cool on the baking sheets (if yoú try to remove them they will likely break apart). Allow cookies to cool aboút 15-20 minútes so that they can set. Then remove and enjoy.
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