How home cooks change Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

16 of 16 reviewing cooks changed Best Chocolate Chip Cookies. Most changed: 1 cup packed brown sugar (6 cooks), 1 cup white sugar (5 cooks). See every tweak as a line-by-line diff.

Prep 20 mins · Cook 10 mins · Serves 48, 4 dozen cookies

35 ingredient or step changes, 13 additions, 4 removals and 7 tips across 16 reviews.

Most-changed ingredients

• 1 cup packed brown sugar — 6 cooks changed it. Swaps: 1 1/2 cups brown sugar; 2 cups packed brown sugar; 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar — 5 cooks changed it. Swaps: 1/2 cup white sugar; 0 cup white sugar; 0.5 cup white sugar
• 1 cup chopped walnuts — 1 cook changed it, 2 left it out. Swaps: 1 cup roasted pecan pieces
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips — 3 cooks changed it. Swaps: 2 cups Ghirardelli semisweet chocolate chips; combination of crushed peppermint candy and chopped up Andes mints; 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 3 cups all-purpose flour — 3 cooks changed it. Swaps: Just over 2 cups all-purpose flour (weighed to correct gram weight); Less than 3 cups all-purpose flour; 6 cups all-purpose flour
• 0.5 teaspoon salt — 2 cooks changed it. Swaps: 2/3 teaspoon salt; 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons hot water — 0 cooks changed it, 2 left it out
• 1 cup butter, softened — 2 cooks changed it. Swaps: 1 cup room temperature no salt added butter; 1 cup butter, browned
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract — 1 cook changed it. Swaps: 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

What cooks add

• 0.5 teaspoon cream of tartar
• Skor toffee bits
• 1 cup white chocolate chips
• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
• a few drops peppermint essential oil
• 2.5 tablespoons melted butter
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon karo syrup
• cream of tartar

Every cook's tweak

1. Cook 1

   • + 0.5 teaspoon cream of tartar

2. Cook 2

   • ~ 1 cup white sugar → 1/2 cup white sugar
   • ~ 1 cup packed brown sugar → 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
   • − 1 cup chopped walnuts

   1 method change

3. Cook 3

   • + Skor toffee bits

   1 tip

4. Cook 4

   • ~ 1 cup white sugar → 0 cup white sugar
   • ~ 1 cup packed brown sugar → 2 cups packed brown sugar
   • ~ 0.5 teaspoon salt → 2/3 teaspoon salt

   1 method change, 2 tips

5. Cook 5

   • − 2 teaspoons hot water
   • − 1 cup chopped walnuts

   3 method changes

6. Cook 6

   • ~ 1 cup white sugar → 1/2 cup white sugar
   • ~ 1 cup packed brown sugar → 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
   • + 1 cup white chocolate chips
   • ~ 1 cup chopped walnuts → 1 cup roasted pecan pieces

   1 method change

7. Cook 7

   • ~ 1 cup white sugar → 0.5 cup white sugar
   • ~ 1 cup packed brown sugar → 1.5 cups brown sugar
   • ~ 2 teaspoons vanilla extract → 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

   2 method changes, 1 tip

8. Cook 8

   • ~ 1 cup white sugar → 0.5 cup white sugar
   • ~ 1 cup packed brown sugar → 1.5 cups packed brown sugar
   • − 2 teaspoons hot water
   • + 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

   1 method change

9. Cook 9

   • ~ 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips → 2 cups Ghirardelli semisweet chocolate chips

   3 method changes

10. Cook 10

    • ~ 1 cup packed brown sugar → 1 cup of Moreno or pure cane unbleached sugar
    • + a few drops peppermint essential oil
    • ~ 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips → combination of crushed peppermint candy and chopped up Andes mints

    1 method change

11. Cook 11

    • ~ 3 cups all-purpose flour → Just over 2 cups all-purpose flour (weighed to correct gram weight)
    • ~ 1 cup butter, softened → 1 cup room temperature no salt added butter

    2 tips

12. Cook 12

    • ~ 3 cups all-purpose flour → Less than 3 cups all-purpose flour

    1 tip

13. Cook 13

    • ~ 3 cups all-purpose flour → 6 cups all-purpose flour

14. Cook 14

    • ~ 1 cup butter, softened → 1 cup butter, browned
    • ~ 0.5 teaspoon salt → 1 teaspoon salt
    • + 2.5 tablespoons melted butter
    • + 1 egg yolk

15. Cook 15

    • + 1 teaspoon karo syrup
    • + cream of tartar

    3 method changes

16. Cook 16

    • ~ 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips → 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

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