Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies
Levain Bakery copcat cookie recipe! These are huge but can be made into smaller dough balls and baked accordingly.
Ingredients
1 C butter cut into tbsp
3/4 C light brown sugar
1/2 C sugar
2 eggs
1 C cake flour (make your own - 1 C flour, remove 2 tbsp. Add 2 tbsp corn starch)
1 3/4 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
2 1/2 C chocolate chips
Directions
preheat oven to 400° and set rack in middle of oven.
place butter into bowl and turn mixer on low. If using a stand mixer, use paddle attachment.
add sugars and beat butter until smooth on medium speed. This should take about 1 minute.
Add the egs and beat on medium just until incorporated with butter and sugars, 30 seconds.
Turn the mixer off. Add the cake flour, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
Pulse the dry ingredients on low until wet and dry ingredients are mixed together.
Pour chocolate chips into batter and pulse 5-6 times.
Divie the dough into 8 equal pieces (about 6 oz each). Use your hands to shape cookies. Do not use a cookie scoop. The cookies are meant to be roughly shaped. Do not flatten the dough.
Sprinkle tops of cookies on pan with sea salt.
Bake 4 cookies per pan, for 11 minutes on regular bake.
The cookies are done when the top is a bit golden and the bottom edge is golden.
Let cool for 15 minutes before serving.