Be My Guest with Not Without Salt – Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

• 2 sticks butter (8 oz)
• 1/4 cup white sugar (2 oz )
• 1/4 cup Turbinado sugar (2 oz )
• 1 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed (12 oz )
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla (1/4 oz)
• 3 1/2 cup All Purpose flour (1 lb. )
• 1 1/2 tsp Baking soda
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1 lb. chocolate (use the best quality chocolate you can afford. With a serrated knife cut chocolate chunks roughly 1/2 inch)
• 1/2 teaspoon good quality salt, for sprinkling on top before baking

Instructions

1. Cream the butter and the sugars until very light and fluffy, about 5-7 minutes on medium high. Scrape down the side of the bowl. Continue mixing while adding the eggs one at time. Make sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next. Add the vanilla. Scrape down the bowl with a spatula. Combine the flour, soda and salt in another bowl. With a whisk to combine. With the machine on low, slowly add the flour. Mix until just combined, taking care not to over mix. With a spatula fold in the chocolate.
2. If you so choose, and I do recommend that you do, sprinkle a very fine dusting of good quality sea salt. Fleur de Sel or Murray River Pink Salt are my recommendations.
3. Bake at 360* for 12 minutes. They should be lightly golden on the outside but still look gooey on the inside.

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