I think if you try and name a classic American cookie, a chocolate chip cookie would be right up near the top of the list. We love our Nestle's Tollhouse chocolate chips or Ghiradelli Chocolate chips, or Reese's peanut butter chips. We have a lot of variety of chips in the USA, white, milk and dark chocolate, peanut butter, butterscotch and mint as well. In France I never found the variety of chips, but you can use chocolate bars even, just break them up!! There is a ton of variety in the chocolate bar department in France for sure !
So heat the oven up to 150 C and use a cookie sheet with parchment paper on it in the center of the oven. Bake these for 12 minutes each if you like them chewy and a little longer if you want them crunchy.
226 gm butter doux
330 gms #45 flour
1 cafe spoon salt
1 cafe spoon baking soda
52 gms vanilla sugar
275 gms brown sugar
1 egg
1 egg yolk
25 ml milk
300 gms of chocolate chips
optional: nuts, dried fruit
Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Don't burn it, if you do start over. Sift the flour, salt and soda together and set aside. Pour the butter into a bowl and add the vanilla sugar and brown sugar, cream with an electric mixer on medium speed. Add the egg and egg yolk and milk until well combined. Slowly add the flour mixture until combined, then add the chocolate chips and any optional ingredients. Chill the dough for about an hour. scoop onto a pan or cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, bake for 12 minutes.
