The Most Amazing Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe EVER

I have a problem. A perfectly Chewy, Crunchy, Chocolaty problem....

These are my problem...

I'm a mind reader, here's what your thinking: "wowwww..... a chocolate chip cookie. great." (you say in your mind flatly and unexcitedly) Well guess what? You should be excited. Because, if you're like me, you have issues with cookie recipes and when they aren't perfect, you cry yourself to sleep get upset. You don't do that, you say? Oops, I guess that's just me...  

The thing is cookies are sooooo easy and I always feel that when I make them they have to be perfect. But alas, I haven't found a recipe with a chewy, gooey, chocolaty center and a crispy, crunchy, buttery outside. Until I found these.

They are literally all I think about. All. The. Time. Is that bad? But here's the thing. I will NEVER go back to another cookie recipe again. Ever.

And really, you shouldn't either. Because nothing compares to these. Nothing.

Drop your great-grandmother's recipe right now! Convert to perfectness every time. Trust me. And don't be scared of the added salt. It makes everything better. It enhances the chocolate flavor. It's like salted caramel. If you like that then you have no excuse whatsoever to not put in the salt. And they're good the next day, still soft on the inside... sighhhh. Oh, and one last fabulous thing: It only makes 17 cookies (or so) so you can devour them all by yourself and not feel like a blimp  bring some to your elderly neighbors.

Please make them, eat them unguiltily by yourself, warm and beautiful. 

Recipe:

Oven Preheated: 375 degrees Fahrenheit

1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
6 tablespoons brown sugar, firmly packed
6 tablespoons granulated sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg
1 cup flour, plus 2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 cups chocolate chips (or a little more than 1/2 the bag)

1. Cream butter and sugars at medium speed of a stand mixer (with the paddle attachment).
2. Add vanilla and egg while mixing.
3. Turn off mixer and add flour, salt and baking soda.
4. Beat at slow/medium speed just until flour is incorporated into butter and sugar mixture.
5. Stir in chocolate chips.
6. Using an ice cream or cookie scoop, form balls of dough and drop on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper (or if you have a really good baking sheet like I do you can use that too.)
7. Bake for exactly nine minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for at least 10 minutes on cookie sheet (or they will fall apart. It's reaaaallly hard to do but so worth it just trust me.)

8. Transfer to a wire cooling rack or eat right away. 
9. Enjoy the best cookie of your life!