Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've been craving chocolate chip cookies for weeks, but not just any chocolate chip cookies. These are a special kind; you know it: soft and warm, gooey on the inside with a little crunch on the edges. The recipe I learned from my Mama isn't quite what I wanted. She likes hers nice and thick, full of flour. While I love Mama's cookies, they weren't what I'd been looking for.

I've spent weeks hunting down the recipe that had exactly what I was looking for and I found it. A secret ingredient: honey. These were spectacular, but a quick warning: they're extremely sweet. Don't believe me? Ask the dishes!

I adapted these from Scientifically Sweet, a great cookbook and a fun website.

Ingredients:
1 2/3 cups flour
1/2 tsp plus 1/8 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
10 Tbsp unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp honey
1 large egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
12 oz chocolate chips

Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside. (Truthfully, this always seems a ridiculous step to me; this recipe has you dump it into the dough all at once, so if you want to skip this step, be my guest.)

Cream together butter and both sugars until lighter and a little smoother. It took me about one minute.

Add the honey, the egg, and vanilla, mixing thoroughly.

Add flour mixture into the sugar mixture all at once and sit until it's all mostly combined. Add chocolate chips and mix with a rubber scraper or wooden spoon until completely combined. Don't over mix. It should be sticky but moderately moist.

Place plastic wrap directly on top of the dough and allow to sit in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking pans with parchment paper and roll the dough into balls, size depending on how big you want your cookies. Bake for about 10 minutes, or until the color you want. I like my cookies just a smidge darker, so I baked mine for 13 minutes. (That's my mama in the background; she said she would help and instead she just watched me. Ugh, moms.)

This recipe makes about 24 cookies. Don't they look warm and gooey? Again, they are very sweet, so be prepared.

Keep stirring, loves!