Levain Chocolate Chip Cookies

 


My parents and my husband really like these cookies!  I’ve gotten them from Boston and Chicago. I made these into smaller cookies and baked them for 8 min and 30 seconds at 390 degrees.

 Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Crush Cookies – Modern Honey

Ingredients 

1 cup Cold Butter cut into small cubes

1 cup Brown Sugar

1/2 cup Sugar

2 Eggs

1 1/2 cups Cake Flour

1 1/2 cups Flour

1 teaspoon Cornstarch

3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda

3/4 teaspoon Salt

2 cups Chocolate Chips

2 cups Walnuts roughly chopped

 

Instructions

Preheat oven to 410 degrees. (baked at 390 degrees)

In a large mixing bowl, cream together cold cubed butter, brown sugar, and sugar for 4 minutes or until creamy.

Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each one.

Stir in flours, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt. Mix until just combined to avoid overmixing. Stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.

Separate dough into large balls and place on lightly colored cookie sheet. They are bigger than you think! You will fit 4 cookies on one large cookie sheet. The dough makes 8 extra large cookies.

Bake for 9-12 minutes or until golden brown on the top. Let them rest for at least 10 minutes to set (made smaller cookies and baked at 8 min and 30 sec).

 


Peppermint meringue https://www.bakedbyanintrovert.com/peppermint-meringue-cookies/#recipe

 

These are nice as holiday gifts and very pretty. I wasn’t sure if the decoration would work because it didn’t seem like the red dye was sticking to the side of the piping bag after I painted it onto the sides, but they turned out fine! I had 5 egg whites because I had just made a matcha crème brulee. I just added a little more cream of tartar and an extra 38 grams of sugar so I weight a total of 188 grams of granulated sugar. I used an electric standing mixer to whip the egg whites.

 

Peppermint Meringue Cookies - Baked By An Introvert

Ingredients

4 large egg whites, at room temperature

¼ teaspoon cream of tartar

¾ cups (150 g) granulated sugar

½ teaspoon

red gel food coloring

 

Directions

Adjust the oven racks to upper and lower-middle positions. Preheat to 225ºF. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

 

Add the egg whites and cream of tartar to a large clean bowl. With an electric mixer, beat the egg whites on medium speed until they become frothy with uniform size bubbles. This will take about 2-3 minutes.

 

Increase the speed to medium-high and gradually add the sugar, a couple tablespoons at a time. Once all the sugar is added, turn the speed all the way up to high and beat the egg whites until they are glossy and form stiff peaks when the beater is lifted about 4 minutes.

 

Turn the speed down to low and slowly add in the peppermint extract.

Use a small brush to paint lines of red food coloring inside a piping bag fitting with a large piping tip, spacing the lines ½ to 1-inch apart.

 

Fill the bag with meringue and pipe "kisses" on to the prepared baking sheet, spacing them 1 inch apart.

 

Bake the meringues for 1 hour, turn the oven off, and leave the meringues in the oven for another hour.

 

Do not open the door. Test the meringues after 1 hour. If the centers are still chewy, let them dry for a couple more hours.

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