The CHEWIEST Chocolate Chip Cookies EVER

Let's talk chocolate chip cookies for a minute. A person's CCC (chocolate chip cookie) preference is as personal as their preference in underwear styles! There's chewy, crispy, crunchy, nutty, chocolate overload, over baked, under baked, flat, big and fat...so so many options! I personally am totally in the chewy, under baked, and fat camp!

If you'd like to pull up your sleeping bag next to me at chewy fat CCC camp then THIS is the recipe for you!

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Makes: 2-3 dozen depending on size
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Baking Time: 9 minutes/pan

3/4 cup salted butter, softened to room temp
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1/4 granulated sugar
1 egg
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups unbleached all purpose flour
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chips (I used 1/2 cup milk chocolate chocolate chips, 1/2 cup M & M's on this batch!)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. The oven rack should be positioned in the middle of your oven.

In your stand mixer bowl (if you don't have one...totally invest in one!) with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar about 1-2 minutes until it is light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla and beat in.

Add in flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt. Mix until everything is just combined in.

Fold in chocolate chips and/or M & M's with a spatula, scraping bottom of bowl to make sure no bits are left at the bottom of the bowl.

Using a 1 tablespoon cookie scoop, drop cookies onto an ungreased baking sheet making sure that the cookie dough was packed in there good so that the dough is in ball form (this helps make them big and CHEWY!). Bake about 9 minutes, making sure to pull out cookies as soon as cookies start to brown on the edges for optimal chewiness. Let them cool for a few minutes on the pan before removing with a spatula so they don't squish when removing. Place on parchment paper and allow to fully cool before placing them in a storage container (if that is you haven't devoured the entire batch BEFORE they cool)...