Pink Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies
 
Ingredients
  • 2¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 tsp. kosher salt
  • 2 sticks (8 oz.) unsalted butter at room temperature
  • ¾ cup light brown sugar
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs at room temperature
  • 1 tsp. real vanilla extract
  • 8 oz. smei-sweet chocolate chips of over 50% cocoa
  • 2 TB finishing salt such as Himalayan Pink Salt
Instructions
  1. Sift the flour, kosher salt and baking soda together in a small bowl and set aside.
  2. in the bowl of standing mixer, cream the butter and the sugars until light and fluffy, 3-5 minutes.
  3. Add the eggs one at a time followed by the vanilla extract.
  4. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the butter-sugar mixture and mix just until combined.
  5. Add the chocolate chips and mix, again just until combined.
  6. Divide the dough in two and roll each half into a log of approximately 2 in diameter.
  7. Refrigerate the dough overnight.
  8. To bake, preheat the oven to 350.
  9. Slice the dough into ¼ thick cookies and place on an ungreased cookie sheet. (I usualy get about 9 cookies to a sheet.)
  10. Sprinkle a pinch of finishing salt on top of each cookies.
  11. Bake cookies for 12 minutes.
  12. Cool on a wire rack.
Recipe by West of the Loop at https://www.westoftheloop.com/2013/09/23/how-to-make-the-best-chocolate-chip-cookies/