Barely Baked Chocolate Chip Cookies With Sea Salt

These barely baked chocolate chip cookies are such a crowd-pleaser. The secret that makes them so delicious is their crispy crunchy outside and just-baked gooey center. And they are sprinkled with a bit of flaky salt to enhance their flavor. These will be a family favorite!

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Look no further if you have been looking for the best chip cookie. These cookies are crisp outside, and the just-baked gooeyness inside comes from the butter. These are the perfect marriage of salty-sweet. These cookies boast the best of both worlds.

Barley baked chocolate chip cookies are my family’s favorites.

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The Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie

The cookies will spread out in the oven and get flat-ish. This will give them crispy edges. And making sure to not overbake them will give them their heavenly soft centers that are just barely baked.

I love this recipe because it calls for mixing everything by hand I don’t have to lug out my big stand mixer.

Ingredients For The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are delicious, but only as good as the ingredients you choose to go in them. Quality ingredients equal the most scrumptious product!

Butter: Use unsalted butter so you can control the amount of salt in your cookies. Butter makes the crisp edges, the melty center, and the rich flavor.

Vanilla: Don’t leave this out of your recipe! Vanilla is not only a flavor enhancer, it is a flavor balancer. It helps all the ingredients play nicely together.

Sugars: This recipe calls for both white sugar and brown sugar. This adds both sweetness and depth of flavor to the cookies. I use dark brown sugar. I like the more complex flavor and it makes the cookies darker.

Flour: Use all-purpose flour for this recipe. It will give you chewy cookies when combined with butter. The number one reason cookie recipes fail, if the directions are followed correctly, is because the flour was not measured properly. See the section How To Measure Flour Correctly below.

Baking Soda: Baking Soda creates tiny air bubbles that keep baked goods light and airy.

Salt: Salt is a flavor enhancer and baked goods need salt to balance out the sweetness in a recipe. This recipe calls for salt in the recipe and a tiny bit of flaked salt on top of the cookies.

Chocolate Chips: You can use chunks of semi-sweet chocolate you cut up yourself or add chocolate chips. My favorite chocolate chips are Ghiradelli semi-sweet chips.

Tips For Making The Best Cookies

Here are a few tips that will help you make the best chocolate chip cookies.

Measure all the ingredients carefully and follow the directions. This recipe calls for mixing everything by hand. It is very important not to overmix this recipe. Combine all the ingredients until just incorporated.

The best way to produce partially melted butter is in the microwave. Start with butter that has been chilled in the refrigerator. Put one wrapped stick of butter in the microwave at a time. Set the cooking time for one minute. Stop every ten seconds to check the softness of the butter. The goal is for the butter to be soft with some of it melted in the center of the stick.

Put the eggs in a bowl and scramble them before adding them to the butter.

Mix the butter, sugars, vanilla, and eggs together. Beat them together with a spoon or whisk.

Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt together. And gently mix it with a clean fork.

Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients until just combined. Don’t overmix.

Chill the cookie balls on a baking sheet in the refrigerator for an hour before baking them. If you cover them tightly with plastic wrap, you can keep them refrigerated overnight. There are two main reasons for chilling the dough before it is baked. First, it gives the wet ingredients a chance to hydrate the flour and second, chilling the dough helps the cookie not to spread too much when baking.

Do not overbake these cookies. The name is barely baked!

Cool the cookies on a wire rack until they are totally cooled.

How To Measure Flour

Measuring Flour correctly is often a make or break when it comes to baked goods. Many cooks dig a measuring cup into a bag of flour and add it to recipes. That is not the best and most accurate way to measure because flour can become tightly backed down. And we do not want to scoop packed down flour!

When you are not measuring it on a scale, the best way to measure flour is to put flour in a container that is big enough to use the fluff, scoop, and level method. Use a fork and gently stir the flour fluffing it up. Or use a one-cup measure and scoop it up and shake the flour out back in the large flour container. Do this several times before you measure it.

Spoon the flour into a measuring cup while holding it over the flour container until the flour is piled above the rim of the measuring cup. Do not pack it down. Level the flour off by scraping a knife across the measuring cup.

This will ensure you have the right amount of flour for your recipe.

A Measurement You Might Want To Know

The most accurate way to measure flour is by weighing it on a scale. One cup of flour equals 120-125 grams.

How To Store Cookies

Glass containers with lids will store these cookies. I like to refrigerate them because they are barely baked and will keep their crispness better. Just don’t put them in a plastic bag. They will break apart and get soft.

Freezing Cookie Dough And Finished Cookies

These cookies freeze beautifully! Here’s how…

Freezing Cookie Doug:

The best way to freeze this cookie dough is by following the directions and making cookie balls with an ice cream scoop. Put the balls on a parchment-lined baking sheet and freeze them. When the cookie balls are frozen put them in a freezer bag and pop them in the freezer.

Freezing Finished Cookies:

Make the cookies according to the directions. And cool completely. Freeze them on a parchment-lined baking sheet. When the cookies are frozen they can be stacked and wrapped in foil and then put in a freezer bag for up to two months.

I hope you will make these cookies. I’m sure they will be your favorite!

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