Food network chocolate chip cookies

I tried Alton Brown’s chocolate chip cookie recipe “The Chewy” and it was a challenging cookie recipe to make.

We skipped the white sugar and went all in with dark brown sugar, which gives our cookies the ideal chewiness and perfect level of sweetness. Paired with the right amount of semisweet chocolate chips, this treat is a definite winner. The recipe makes a lot of cookies, but in our opinion, this is never a problem!

Here's the new standard, the chocolate chip cookie you'll bake again and again. More brown sugar than white and a pinch of cinnamon give them the richer, rounder, perfected flavor we pushed for as we tested batch after batch.

My alma mater, Oak Park River Forest High School, is pretty legendary in the Chicagoland area. Ernest Hemingway went there as did famed McDonald’s guy Ray Kroc. Tom Lennon from Reno 911, controversial comedian Kath Griffin and Rapper/Fast & Furious Driver Ludacris. It is a proverbial smorgasbord of legendary talents. Did I mention that I went there as well? Anyway, every student from Ernie to Luda ate and LOVED these dangerously under-baked spoonable cookies.

This is such an easy chocolate chip cookie. No special equipment, no creaming -- a perfect cookie to do with kids. We love how versatile this dough is, too. It makes an awesome rocky road bar cookie.

When you’re ready for the ultimate in soft chewy chocolate chip cookies, Alton Brown chocolate chip cookies are an epic bounty of flavor and texture!

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Small changes can make a big difference. We took our basic chocolate chip cookie and made one isolated change at a time. We added, swapped, melted, baked low, baked high and chilled. But mostly we had fun. And with each slight tweak we made a new cookie with a different texture, look and taste from the last. Use our guide as a way to find the perfect cookie for you. No big changes necessary.

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