Chocolate Chip Cookies from The Disney Diner

Chocolate Chip Cookies - made March 25, 2018, modified from The Disney Diner

Chalk this up as a good chocolate chip cookie recipe but mine didn’t look anything like the picture from the original blog I got it from. My dough was a bit soft but I made it as the recipe instructed so not sure what happened.

This is a slight variation on the typical chocolate chip cookie in that it uses powdered sugar instead of granulated sugar. Since powdered sugar is more refined than granulated sugar, I expected a bit more spread and sweetness. Which I got. But this was still a good cookie.

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter

1 cup light brown sugar
3/4 cup powdered sugar
1 egg
2 tablespoons water
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Milk chocolate chunks or chips or semisweet, your choice

1. Cream together butter, brown sugar and powdered sugar. Beat in egg, water and vanilla. Add flour, salt and baking soda, mixing until just combined; do not overmix. Fold in chocolate chips or chunks.
2. Portion into golf-ball size dough balls, cover and chill or freeze several hours or overnight.
3. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and evenly space dough balls. Bake the cookies at 400 degrees for 2 minutes then lower the temperature to 350 degrees F. Bake an additional 10-15 minutes or until edges are brown and middles are no longer raw. Do not overbake.
4. Let cookies cool for 5 minutes then transfer to wire racks to cool completely.