Best Barefoot Contessa Pb Choc Chunk Cookies Recipes

BAREFOOT CONTESSA PB CHOC CHUNK COOKIES

Steps:

• Combine first 6 ingredients in a large bowl.
• In a small bow, sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to wet ingredients, just to combine.
• Stir in chocolate.
• Bake at 350 for 17 minutes. Cookies will seem underdone, but do not let brown on top.

CHOCOLATE WHITE CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cream the butter and both sugars until light and fluffy in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the vanilla, then the eggs, 1 at a time, and mix well. Add the cocoa and mix again. Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt and add to the chocolate with the mixer on low speed until just combined. Fold in the chopped white chocolate. Drop the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, using a 1 3/4-inch ice cream scoop or a rounded tablespoon. Dampen your hands and flatten the dough slightly. Bake for exactly 15 minutes (the cookies will seem underdone). Remove from the oven and let cool slightly on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

GIANT CRINKLED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Arrange three racks evenly spaced in the oven (see Cook's Note).
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium speed for 3 minutes, until creamy. Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat on medium speed for 2 to 3 minutes, until light and fluffy. Scrape down the bowl with a rubber spatula. Add the egg, vanilla, and 2 tablespoons of warm water and mix on low speed just to combine. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and kosher salt. With the mixer on low, slowly add the flour mixture, then the chocolate (including the fine chocolate dust) to the batter until combined. Mix well with a rubber spatula.
• With a 2 1/4-inch standard ice cream scoop (or 1/3 cup measure), make 12 rounded scoops of dough and place them on a sheet pan. Freeze the dough for exactly 15 minutes, then arrange 4 balls of dough--spaced wide apart--on each of three sheet pans lined with parchment paper. Bake for 10 minutes, until the cookies are slightly puffed in the center. Remove the pans from the oven and bang them on the stove top, until the center of the cookies deflate. Bake for 3 minutes, then bang the pans again, repeating baking and banging every 3 minutes, for 18 to 20 minutes total, until the edges of the cookies are golden brown. (The centers will be lighter and not fully cooked.) Rotate the sheet pans in the oven so the cookies bake evenly. Sprinkle the cookies with fleur de sel and cool completely on the pans.

CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• Cream the butter and two sugars until light and fluffy in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the vanilla, then the eggs, one at a time, and mix well. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt and add to the butter with the mixer on low speed, mixing only until combined. Fold in the walnuts and chocolate chunks.
• Drop the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, using a 1 3/4-inch-diameter ice cream scoop or a rounded tablespoon. Dampen your hands and flatten the dough slightly. Bake for exactly 15 minutes (the cookies will seem underdone). Remove from the oven and let cool slightly on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER GLOBS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line a few sheet pans with parchment paper.
• In a bowl set over simmering water, melt the butter, 6 ounces of the chocolate chips, and the unsweetened chocolate, stirring occasionally, until just melted. Remove from the heat and cool for 15 minutes.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the eggs, espresso powder, and vanilla until combined. Add the sugar, raise the speed to medium-high, and beat for 2 minutes, until the batter is thick and falls back on itself in a ribbon. Set aside.
• With the mixer on low, slowly add the chocolate mixture to the egg mixture. Combine the 1/3 cup of flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl and fold it into the chocolate mixture with a rubber spatula. In another bowl, combine the walnuts, pecans, peanut butter chips, the remaining 6 ounces of chocolate chips, and the tablespoon of flour and fold it into the chocolate mixture. With 2 soup spoons, drop rounded mounds of batter 1 inch apart onto the prepared sheet pans. Bake for 15 minutes exactly. Cool on the baking sheets.

SALTED CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla, then the eggs, one at a time, and mix well. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt and, with the mixer on low speed, slowly add to the butter mixture, mixing only until combined. Fold in the walnuts and chocolate chunks.
• Drop the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, using a 1 3/4-inch-diameter ice cream scoop or a rounded tablespoon. Dampen your hands and flatten the dough slightly. Bake for exactly 15 minutes (the cookies will seem underdone). Remove from the oven, sprinkle with flaked sea salt, and allow to cool slightly on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream the butter and peanut butter together.
• Add the sugars and cream on medium speed.
• Add the eggs and vanilla and mix well.
• Combine dry ingredients and add to peanut butter mixture gradually and mix until no white remains; then add chocolate chunks and nuts. Mix well.
• Drop by tablespoons onto parchment lined baking sheets.Press down slightly.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 12-13 minutes or until golden brown.
• Cool on baking sheets 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream the butter and peanut butter together until fully incorporated.
• Add the sugars and cream on medium speed.
• Add the egg and vanilla and mix until completely incorporated.
• Add the flour and baking soda, mix until no white remains, then add the chocolate and mix on low just until everything comes together.
• Drop by teaspoonfuls onto parchment-lined baking sheets.
• Bake at 350° for 9 minutes or until golden brown.

BAREFOOT CONTESSA'S CHOCOLATE WHITE CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Cream the butter and 2 sugars until light and fluffy in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment.
• Add the vanilla, then the eggs, 1 at a time, and mix well.
• Add the cocoa and mix again.
• Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt and add to the chocolate with the mixer on low speed until just combined.
• Fold in the chopped white chocolate.
• Drop the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, using a 1 3/4-inch ice cream scoop or a rounded tablespoon.
• Dampen your hands and flatten the dough slightly.
• Bake for exactly 15 minutes (the cookies will seem underdone).
• Remove from the oven and let cool slightly on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.