Recreating Levain Chocolate Chip Cookies Feat. Binging with Babish

Joshua what happened to this?

Why is my dough still so sticky even after refrigerating it overnight? 😢 baked 6oz ball into 220c, not even a little crisp on the outside after 20 minutes. Any tips? I used low protein flour tho lol.

Sorry but, nobody makes a better chocolate chip cookie than toll house. Nobody.

So the only thing I could thing to get them to rise a little more, and still have that almost creamy/chewy texture on the inside was not to use more egg. But fold your egg white almost to a meringue, before it stiffens. Then as it cooks, the egg white and the melting of the choclate become harmonious.

I hate the fact mixers been ardor so long and they still allow us to spill ingredients.

Levain cookies are the bestttttttttttt

Just made this ! Soo good. I lowered the temp to 180c and cooked for 19 mins and they came out perfect. I also reduced both sugars by 20g or so and they were still quite sweet. But nevertheless, the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made.

For those like me without an oven but have an air fryer, 170-180 C for 12 min with the same recepie from Joshua or else you burn the cookies and please use oven paper, helps against burning too

Thumbs down for making me look at man a$$

Josh says he unlocked the secret with ease.

I rolled them and freeze for an hour . I cooked them in 200 Celsius for ~20-25 minutes. They were high and cooked perfectly. Thanks for the recipe ❤

Joshua Weissman's Levain Cookies:
- 450g 60-70% Dark Cacao Chocolate (No Milk Choc)
- 230g Cake flour
- 280g Unsalted Butter
- 275g All Purpose Flour
- 5g Kosher Salt
- Half a Teaspoon / 6g of Baking Soda
- 2 Teaspoons / 8g Cornstarch
- 285g Brown Sugar
- 115g White Granulated Sugar
- 2 Eggs,
- 3 Egg Yolks
- 165g Rough Chopped Walnuts

EWWWWWWWWW. PLEASE PEOPLE PLEASEEEEEE.
NUTS. DO. NOT. BELONG. IN. COOKIES!!

I tried the recipe and it went soo wrong, did anybody else did it?

I fucked up :)

So today I tried this recipe don’t know why but they did not taste good. The cookie 🍪 itself is not sweet enough. I used 70% dark chocolate bars from Tony’s. Measured everything. Tomorrow I might add more sugar to the dough give it a good mix by hand & try it.

I hate it so many times mine come out flat like a pancake. Im just going to start adding a little extra flour i heard can help. I've already frozen cookie dough for hours and taken it out and tried to put down on parchment paper on a tray a thick still pretty frozen dough and they come out wide and flat not thick like Levains do so i thought that would help but Nope. What am i doing wrong? Edit: I forgot to mention i make my chocolate chip cookies without walnuts or any nuts would that effect the recipe at all and its amounts?

I just realized the first 15 seconds of this video. It's the last fifteen seconds of your showerdough With babish video

I just tried the recipe, it’s sure get me a thick cookies. But i do have some suggestions:

1. I felt like the dough was needed a little bit more flour, as it’s came out too sticky, so I added 3 tablespoons of flour.

2. The amount of chocolate was way too much. The cookies terns out so chocolaty that you can’t even taste the cookies. So for that, I highly recommend to reduce it.

3. Finally, the baking temperature was way too high, the bottom of the cookies turned black very quickly before the inside of the cookies even cooked.

you gust added all purpose flour 😑

Wtf guys. HOW MANY GRAMS ARE ONE CUP

But why mine is kind of soft runny a litter compare yours

Follow-up ..... My family enjoyed the cookies! I was impressed with the flavor. Next day, still soft. I will make again. Thank you so much! 🩷😊

Ok mine just came out the oven, we're taking them to Thanksgiving dinner. They smell great, and look pretty good. Not as good as yours. I left mine in refrigerator overnight 😢. Thanks for this recipe! 🩷🩷

he said 2 tsps or 8 grams of kosher salt and then ½ tsp or 6 grams of baking soda... how does the measurement make sense

i find Babbish a bit narcissistic but hey thas just me

Hi guys for anyone new trying to recreate this. This recipe is spot on!

So a couple of things i found. After you make the cookie, let it rest in the fridge for 3hrs then put them all in the freezer overnight (after you have shaped them into 6oz balls) i got a better height and structure and it’s cooked perfectly brown on the outside and not burnt all.

If you want to bake it, pre-heat your oven for 5-10 mins and then directly from the freezer bake the cookie. Mine turned out insane i got a bit of a higher rise compared to the video. Please make sure you let the dough rest and stayed in the oven overnight

Can we go more with the chocolate if we don't want the walnut?

these have roughly 40 grams of sugar per cookie

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Ok ok substitute for walnuts? I hate walnuts 💀💀 just add more chocolate?

Ingredients:
- 1 and 1/4 cups or 280g of unsalted butter
- 1lb or 450g of dark chocolate
- 1 and 1/2 cups or 230g of cake flour
- 2 cups or 275g of all purpose flour
- 1 and 1/2 tsp or 5g of kosher salt
- 2 tsp or 8g of cornstarch
- 1/2 tsp or 2g of baking soda
- 1 and 1/4 cups or 280g of light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup or 115g of white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3 egg yolks
- Optional: 2 cups or 165g of chopped walnuts

Instructions:
- Brown butter and let it cool
- Chop your chocolate and set aside
- In a small bowl, combine the cake flour, all-purpose flour, kosher salt, cornstarch, and baking soda
- In a bigger bowl, whisk together the light brown sugar and the white sugar
- Continue whisking and slowly stream in the cooled brown butter until creamy
- Add in the eggs and egg yolks one at a time while still whisking
- Once it reaches a fluffy and light colored consistency, start pouring in the flour while still whisking
- When the cookie dough/batter is smooth and lighter colored, stop whisking and add in the chocolate chips and optionally add in the walnuts
- Scoop out the cookies and chill for at least thirty minutes, optimally overnight
- Place onto baking sheets with parchment paper at 425 degrees Fahrenheit or 220 degrees Celsius for 10-13 minutes
- Enjoy your newfound diabetes

Hi Josh are you going to recreate the chocolate cookie?
Please???

Why not toast the nuts

😭 helppp I used 90% dark chocolate and it’s so bitter

The butter is not browned!? Any respectable chocolate chip cookie has brown butter

Why no vanilla?

would it be possible to tell me how many eggs in grams? I'm in the UK so eggs are different in size

I hate u, because u make simple recipes complex

Pardon me for potentially being stupid, but is cake flour the same as self raising?

A friend suggested separating out your cookie dough balls before placing the cookie mixture into the fridge to rest. That way you’re not battling cold and stiff dough when you return to cook them.

Is the walnuts optional? 🤢

Who tf drives in nyc?

A POUND OF CHOCOLATE !

Dreams do come true 🥹

Made these, even tho I only had two eggs and no extra egg yolks ( I replaced them with a half an avocado) and they still turned out amaaazing! Soo thick and chunky!
This is now my forever cookie recipe. Tho I think next time I’d change each size to weigh about 120 gm.

The recipe is foolproof and just amazing!
Hats off to the food porn star❤

no vanilla extract

You forgot to mention that they need pretty much overnight to cooldown

Can i just "deep fry" the walnuts in the butter when I'm browning it to dodge the roasting?