Dark Chocolate Chip and Sea Salt Cookies

Is there anything more classic than chocolate chip cookies? I love them soft and chewy, or thin and crispy, or fresh from the oven, or even straight out of a Chips Ahoy! package (I'm no cookies snob!). I have a bunch of memories of getting home from elementary school and being greeted by freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. My mom is the kind of baker who never does anything exactly the same twice, and I loved how her cookies where a tiny bit different every time she made them.There are SO many good chocolate chip cookie recipes out there. This one is a slightly adapted from Martha Stewart as I prefer to use all dark (or semi sweet) chocolate chips and additional sea salt. They turn out thin with crispy edges, soft centers and plenty of flavor.Dark Chocolate and Sea Salt Cookies, makes two dozen.

Needed: 3 1/2 cups flour, 1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda, 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, 2 teaspoons salt, 1 1/4 cups softened butter, 1 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1 cup sugar, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 2 cups dark chocolate chips and 2 table spoons coarse grain sea salt.

In the bowl of stand mixer (or just with an electric mixer) cream together the softened butter and sugars. Add in the eggs and vanilla extract and cream until combined. In a separate bowl whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt (not the coarse grain sea salt, that's for the topping). Add the flour mixture to the butter batter and mix until just incorporated. Add in the chocolate chips and stir until just combined. Spoon batter onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Sprinkle the tops with sea salt. Bake at 350 F for 16-18 minutes until edges are browned. Enjoy! xo. Emma

Comments

[Val]

YUM!

Val
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[Gina_AcuteDesigns]

Yum, these look so good!

[Stefani]

Looks like I may need to add chocolate chips to my shopping list. Thanks for the recipe. :-)

[~amy~]

looks delish!

[Allison]

Those look delicious! I love the sweet and salty combo.

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[Lauren]

I love baking chocolate chip cookies... I always end up adding a tad more salt than the recipes call for, salty and sweet combo is just the best. These sounds excellent!

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[onnari]

brilliant! ought to taste this!
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[Loulou]

Oh yeah!! These look and sound amazing.

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[Leigh]

Oh I love the addition of sea salt! Yum! My mom's chocolate chip cookies were always my favorite. I like them with soft chewy center almost as if they were not all the way cooked, but they really were! Plus her secret modification to the recipe on the back of the Nestle package, made it so that chocolate chips were always soft and melty! Yum!

[Elizabeth M]

I love sea salt with dark chocolate. I wouldn't have thought to put it in a chocolate chip cookie though!

[Katharina]

Lovely.
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[Natalie / Half Asleep Studio]

I've never thought of adding salt to cookies... sounds like it would be pretty good, though! Definitely trying this out this weekend.

[Margherita]

Chocolate and sea salt is the perfect combination as far as I'm concerned. I'm definitely going to try these cookies!

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[M]

I can't wait to try this! It will be SOO yummy!! I am having company coming in a week or so! This would be wonderful to make!
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[Valerie (Pieceful Wedding)]

These look amazing, and I love how you add sea salt to them...I'm definitely going to have to try these out!

[shannon]

These seriously look heavenly. I love the mix of sweet & salty.

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[Rory]

Those look AMAZING! i am a total dark chocolate girl so this looks amaaaazing!!! Can't wait to make these. They remind me (kind of) of a chocolate covered pretzel...salty and SWEET! :)
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[Flo]

These look gorgeous - I love the sea-salt addition!

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[Nat]

Those look incredibly yummy!

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Nat

[Ashley Martinez]

I love dark chocolate and sea salt so adding cookie dough is an added plus :D I can't wait to make a batch of these bad boys