How to make New York City's famous Levain cookies | Copycat Recipe

Here's my take on #NYC 's famous Levain Bakery's chocolate chip walnut cookies! These massive 6oz cookies were created by the owners of Levain when they were training for the Ironman Triathlon over 20 years ago. I am not training for any sort of physical competition but, truth be told, I don't need an excuse to enjoy #LevainBakery 's cookies!

Since I live in California and prefer not to order the Levain cookies by mail, I've tried baking these massive cookies on my own at home. After trying various recipes and making several modifications over the years, I have finally settled into this one.

The cookies are not difficult to make. The messier you are, the better!

Good luck, and enjoy this first video of my #NYCDesserts series!

[blumachine]

This has to be one of the most aesthetically pleasing cooking videos I’ve ever watched!

[lykaatienza]

OH. MY. GOSH!!!! Best cookies I have ever made! Easy to follow recipe. Thank you so much! I'm going to try the Double Chocolate Chip next time! 🤎

[giffordnakajima]

This turned out to be even better than the actual Levain Bakery cookies! Live in NYC and tried them once a few years back. They were good, but not worth lining up for 1/2 hour on a 20 degree day in the dead of winter. These cookies would be worth it. Best cookies I've ever eaten.

[nichaandfamily]

I found Levain Cookies on YouTube and I wanted to make. I have seen a few but yours is the first I tried. It turned out great. Everyone loved it. Thank you for sharing the recipe.

[jackeeetr]

Tried this last night, half the recipe. Lessened the choc chips and walnut by a quarter. Chilled the dough for 2 hours. Made 6 cookies around 90-95g. Baked at 375 for 12mins. Let cool in the pan. It was great! But I think I like it better the next day.

About to make another batch using chilled browned butter, will leave it in the fridge overnight. Hope it will somehow add more flavor.

Thanks for the recipe and thanks to the Pancake Princess for the reco. 😊

[sadiakhann]

I found this recipe on YouTube about a week ago (the reason why I subscribed) and I finally got the chance to make these cookies. They tasted absolutely amazing! I've never tried Levain Bakery's cookies so I wouldn't be able to compare the two. However, I did make some changes (some were intentional others were unintentional): I used only jaggery instead of brown sugar + white sugar (intentional, I only use jaggery in baking); I used room temperature butter (unintentional, the butter was so soft to the touch b/c I left it out for too long without realizing the butter is supposed to be mostly cold. I layed my finger on a piece and it started to melt, instantly); I didn't use any salt (intentional, whenever I use baking soda in a recipe, I don't use salt.); I used 1 1/2 cups of chocolate chips and 1 1/2 cups of walnuts instead of 2 cups of each (intentional, my family doesn't like super sweet sweets, surprisingly the cookies were still super chocolatey and nutty); lastly, I baked the cookies at 375°F conventional oven for 10-12 minutes (intentional, I saw someone make a different variation of Levain cookies and they were instructed to bake the cookies at 410°F for 10 minutes but the cookie was raw and so they advised us to bake it at 350°F for 15 minutes for anyone that may try that recipe in the future so I went with something in between).
I let my sister try the cookies first and she right away had me promise that I would make them the next time there's a potluck or party 😂. This is definitely a new cookie favourite but I definitely won't be making these often considering the amount of calories, and carbs there are in one cookie!!

[mariakayzza]

I just made these and they are amazing!i used margarine tho, and 100g walnuts and 175g chocolate bar cuz its expensive here. Made (2)130g balls and (10) 100g ones cuz we like our cookies smaller. My family loved it. Thank you very much!

[elsakoivisto]

THESE WERE SO GOOD! I left the walnuts out, put more flour in the dough and baked them at 375 degrees because I don’t really like walnuts but they tasted heavenly! my whole family LOVED them and said they were the best cookies i’ve ever baked and I agree! keep going you’re BRILLIANT !!! ❤️✨

[hzlnntgnn]

As some people commented here, I’ve also tried a few levain-style cookie recipes out there and this really by far is the best 👏 Not complicated in terms of ingredients and just the right amount of sweetness. I’ve been sticking to your recipe ever since I found it so thank you for sharing! 🥰

[robindamore]

I've making this recipe a multiple times and this recipe does not fail. We've been loving the cookies since 2020 ❤❤❤ I used dark chocolate chunks and they were always perfect ❤❤❤

[ghulammustafa-wysj]

Ok so here's the deal, I never comment on youtube videos and I barely even like them. So this quarantine I turned myself towards my kitchen and I had an aim to cook things I like, on top of the list was the chocolate chip cookies. I searched for "best ever chocolate chip cookies" and came across some really good recipes by cup cake jemma, bold bakers, tasty etc and I tried all of them with the finest ingredients and followed every bit of details but every time my cookies lacked that finest taste which I craved for. While I was searching on youtube I found this page. They didnt had most of the likes and millions of subscribers but still I watched their video of chocolate chip cookie. Idk it just clicked to me that I need to try this one and I ran to my kitchen got all the ingredients out and baked these cookies.
After 11 min or so they were done and I got them out and put them in air for like 10 min or so. Than I reached out for the cookie I thought was the biggest one and took a bite. That bite, I was just diving into the flavour of these cookies. idk how i pulled something like that, finest chocolate chip cookies were right under my chin. They tatsed flawless, best, and all things about them were upto that mark which I always wanted to achieve.
Idk who run this page and where are they from but guys hats off, well done! you guys pulled out the recipe i can say is the FINEST of all. Thanks for sharing this with us. GOD BLESS.

[lliancy]

Made this finally and it's delicious! I still have some cookies left because these are literally monster cookies 🤣 The cookie base is not too sweet so it's fine to use milk chocolate but I used dark in mine so it was really not that sweet. Replaced some walnuts with cashews, shaped them, chilled them overnight and when I baked them, since they were really hard, I baked them for 20 minutes. They still had that crispy outside and gooey center, it's such an experience! I really think everyone should try these cookies at least once

[reeset]

Perfect recipe. Very underrated channel!

[honestjo]

Allahumma barik looks delicious! Maybe try forgoing the background music love ❤️

[salford]

Made these last week, best cookies I’ve ever had in 34 years and I don’t bake, great easy to follow instructions, very well put together video and incredible recipe! Thank you ❤️

[liverpoolcheese]

I followed this recipe: the cookies came out absolutely perfect!! Your instructions were perfect in every way, Thank You!! I so loved the way these came out !!!

[peachieangie]

i just made a batch of these following this recipe. some thoughts:

- as some people have mentioned already, the video doesn't mention vanilla extract but the recipe in link does
- the recipe in the link says to bake 10-14 min at (400F) 200C. do NOT bake over 12 minutes, we did at 14 because we froze the batter overnight and half our cookies burned
- this cookie has a LOT of walnuts and chocolate. it's personally not to my taste, even though i love love nuts and chocolate. it felt like i was eating walnuts and chocolate with bits of cookie, instead of a chocolate walnut cookie
- the cookies are massive at 6oz (170g), bigger than the size of my palm
- would be good to sprinkle salt on top after
- overall, i wouldn't make it again the exact same way because there's not enough flour and too much choco and walnuts for my taste. but it is not bad overall! my boyfriend likes them a lot. 6.5/10

[lykaatienza]

Also, could you please make more cookie recipes 🙏🏼 I find your recipe very easy to follow 😊

If I can request, please make matcha or red velvet flavor 🙏🏼🤍

[creatinecutie]

Just made these cookies tonight and it was super indulgent and decadent. The gooey-ness with the kinda firm cookie on the outside is to die for!!!! I put them in the oven for 10 minutes and found that they were still raw so I left them in for another 3-5 minutes or so and I think they came out according to your examples in the video.. IDK I still ate it and loved it LOL

[buggy]

I’ve made these twice now my family goes crazy for them. My new fav cookie recipe. THANK YOU