Baked by Sun

Big Levain-style Cookies

April 13, 2020

My go-to cookie recipe. Makes huge puck sized cookies that are great for sharing… or not.

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Ingredients

Dry stuff

  • 1 cup cake flour (all-purpose is also fine)
  • 1 and 3/4 cup all purpose flour
  • 1 tsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp salt

Other stuff

  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup white sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) of butter
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Steps

Making the dough

  1. Cut the butter into cubes and cream with the sugar.
  2. Mix in the eggs.
  3. Add the dry ingredients slowly and mix until everything is incorporated, but don’t over mix.
  4. Fold in chocolate chips.
  5. Let cool in the fridge for 10-15 minutes

Baking

  1. Form dough into rough 1 and 1/2 inch spheres, rough is fine, don’t work with it too much
  2. Place onto a baking tray, bake for 15-18 minutes at 375 (until golden brown)
  3. Let cool and enjoy!

Notes

Some people like walnuts in their cookies - I do not, but feel free to mix in whatever you like!

These cookies will bake to have a gooey inside. I find that they’re even better the next day.

Tip: Freeze some of the dough balls so you can have them later. 375 for roughly 20 minutes straight from the freezer will work.