Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups minus 2 tbs cake flour
- 1 2/3 cups bread flour
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp coarse salt
- 2 1/2 sticks unsalted butter 1 1/4 cups, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cups light brown sugar packed
- 1 cup plus 2 tbs granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla pure
- 1 1/3 lbs bittersweet chocolate disks or fèves, at least 60 percent cacao content
- sea salt or fleur de sel, for sprinkling
Instructions
- Sift together the cake flour, bread flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a medium sized bowl and set aside.
- In the bowl of your mixer, cream together your butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes. Add in the eggs, one at a time, until combined, scraping down the bowl as needed. Add in the vanilla and mix. Gradually add in the dry ingredients, until just moistened. Fold in your chocolate until evenly added throughout the dough. Press plastic wrap against the dough, making sure it is completely covered, and refrigerate for at least 24 hours, or as long as 72 hours (I left mine for 36 hours). This is an important step, as it allows the gluten in the dough to loosen up (you know how if you beat your dough too much, your cookies will be rock hard? Allowing it to rest for a period of time helps to undo some of this damage). It also helps the cookies to not spread out too much; warm dough spreads, cold dough stays in nice, uniform circles.
- When you are ready to bake, bring the dough to room temperature so that you can scoop it out (I usually let it just sit on my counter for an hour or two), and preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Line and/or grease your baking sheets. Scoop your dough out onto the sheets. I used a #40 ice cream scoop, which is about the size of 2 tablespoons, but you can make them even larger, if you like. Do not press the dough down - let it stay the way it is. Sprinkle the cookies lightly with a bit of fleur de sel or sea salt. Bake 10-12 minutes for smaller cookies (mine took about 11 minutes), or 18-20 minutes for larger cookies.
- Allow the cookies to cool slightly on your baking sheet, then move them to another surface to cool completely. You can enjoy these warm, room temperature, or cold. Store in an air-tight container at room temperature for up to 3 days, or freeze for up to 2 months.
Notes
Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies
these chocolate chip cookies by Jacques Torres are absolutely, without a doubt, the best chocolate chip cookies. I guess that’s why they call him Mr. Chocolate! These are a chocolate chip cookie of another color, that’s for sure. To begin, they use both cake flour and bread flour – that’s right, there is no all-purpose flour to be found in these beauties. Secondly, the dough must, and I repeat, must, be refrigerated for a minimum of 24 hours. I know that this sounds strange for some chocolate chip cookies, but trust me. The combination of the flours and overnight refrigeration is extraordinary. The result is a chewy cookie with just the right amount of crisp around the edges.
Milk is, in fact, an essential component to enjoying these amazing cookies.
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