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.
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.