First-Time Baker Diaries: Pass: Starbucks-style Chocolate Chip Cookies

Been trying to venture out and not get stuck with baking just bread loaves...

Good thing I had an impromptu date with Uri and she suggested that we bake cookies. She was also the one who found the recipe online and we found it in this forum. Which of course we did some substitutions.. As usual.

So I baked this recipe with my sister, Celine and Uri. Among the 3 of us, Celine has the most experience since she did baking lessons last summer. On to the recipe..

The ingredients are:

2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup (170 grams) unsalted butter, room temperature

1 1/3 cups dark brown sugar

1 large egg

1 egg yolk

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup chocolate chips, unsweetened

1/4 cup white chocolate chips

We started off by combining all the dry ingredients together except for the sugar and roughly mixed it with a spoon.

On a separate bowl, we combined the dark brown sugar and the butter.

In the instructions, it said that it has to be mixed to a creamy texture so I whipped out our spankin' new electric mixer to do the job. I got so nervous... The power on that thing even at the lowest setting is pretty crazy!

After mixing the butter-sugar combo, we then added the eggs and egg yolk as well as the vanilla extract.

After a bit of mixing, it looked pretty much like mud... Yummy smelling mud...

Next step is to add the dry mixture part by part into the wet mixture.

It got pretty stiff and mixing was a bit of an effort. It looked exactly how a cookie dough looks like! What a relief!

After mixing all the dry mixture in, we set aside the electric mixer because the choco chips just needed to be folded in. I wanted to use both white and milk just coz it looks so much better in terms of aesthetics..

After a lot of struggling, it eventually looked like this... It's pretty tough manually mixing in at this point because the dough is so tacky and heavy already.