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Levain-style chocolate chip cookies

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  • 1 cup butter
Cut a cup of refrigerator cold butter into small cubes.
  • 400 g white sugar
Cream it in a stand mixer with 400 g white sugar, very slowly at first so it does not warm up, then beat until creamy and smooth with no chunks of butter.
  • 2 whole eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 180 g all-purpose flour
  • 173 g cake flour
  • 2 tsp kosher salt
  • 1½ tsp cornstarch
Add two cold eggs one at a time, then two teaspoons of vanilla paste.
Add a mixture of 180 g all-purpose flour, 173 g cake flour, two teaspoons of kosher salt and one and a half teaspoons of cornstarch, scraping down the bowl.
Cake flour, cornstarch and 170 g balls
  • 1 cup semi-sweet
  • 1 cup dark chocolate
  • 1½ cup walnuts
Mix in a cup of semi-sweet chocolate, a cup of dark chocolate and a cup and a half of walnuts.
Measure out 170 gram chunks, cover and refrigerate one hour.
Bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 10 minutes; the point is not to cook them through, they stay dough on the inside with a browned exterior.
Variation: a slightly lower temperature, 375 to 380 on convection, browns them more evenly and gives more browning on top.