Some recipes are born overnight. This one was earned. After countless test batches and flour-dusted afternoons, I finally perfected the soft-baked cookie I had been chasing. Warm, chewy, and nearly impossible to walk away from — though if you do, don’t expect them to still be there.

 

Ingredients

Unbleached enriched wheat flour (unbleached hard red wheat flour, enzyme or malted barley flour), semi-sweet chocolate chips (sugar, unsweetened chocolate, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), unsalted butter (pasteurized cream, skimmed milk, cultures), brown sugar (sugar, molasses), granulated sugar, egg, vanilla extract (water, cane alcohol, cane sugar, Madagascar vanilla bean extractives), cornstarch, baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), sea salt.