Chocolate Chip Cookies from Jacques Torres

These cookies. To die for. Oh my goodness, this recipe comes from Jacques Torres. I truly saved the best recipe for the end of this journey. These are, by far, my favorite chocolate chip cookies.

On your first bite, you will be transported to a warm and inviting place. A safe place. Home. These are the kind of cookies you expect sitting on your pillow at a fancy hotel. While I prefer these Mrs. Fields knockoffs, I will strive to make these more often.

Our experience making these chocolate chip cookies from Jacques Torres

These are not your “I’m craving a cookie, let’s make cookies right now” cookies. You have to let the dough sit in the fridge for at least 24 hours before baking. It seems quite unnecessary, but since I was making these for the first time I didn’t want to deviate from the recipe. However, with the way these turned out, I will follow the recipe exactly, every single time.

You’ll also need bread flour and cake flour. Two kinds of flour we don’t just have sitting in the cabinet. I’m not entirely sure why you couldn’t use all purpose flour. Something about the protein makeup of each? So I’ll have to make these again to use up those flours (secretly not upset about that). We did need fleur de sel again. That we had that from the other cookie recipe. And this time, I had a perfect balance of salt.

My son is doing a great job measuring ingredients and he’s still a flawless stirrer. Whenever he sees me grabbing the flour or sugar, he pulls over the stool and shouts, “let’s make cookies!” It’s the cutest.