Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

Name: Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Yield: Makes 24 (2-inch) square cookies
Ingredients: 2 1/8 cups, bleached all-purpose flour (10 1/2 ounces; 298 grams); 1/2 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 12 tablespoons, unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), melted and cooled slightly; 1 cup, light brown sugar (7 ounces; 198 grams); 1/2 cup, granulated sugar (3 1/2 ounces; 99 grams); 1 , large egg; 1 , large egg yolk; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 2 cups, chocolate chips or chunks (semi or bittersweet)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2006

Desserts or Baked Goods

Chocolate

Brownies & Bars

A bar variation of our thick and chewy chocolate chip cookies.

SERVESMakes 24 (2-inch) square cookies

TIME1 hour, plus 20 minutes cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For this chocolate chip cookie recipe, we wanted to duplicate, at home, the big, delicious, chewy chocolate chip cookies bought in trendy specialty cookie shops. One key element in developing this chocolate chip cookie recipe was melting th...

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