My Ultimate Cookie | Basics with Babish

Music: “Murmuration” by Blue Wednesday

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[thegreyinitiate]

My mom switched over to making her cookies with browned butter years ago and it was one of the most incredible discoveries she ever made in terms of baking. Those cookies are straight up heavenly.

[jstohler]

My three cookies tricks are: browned butter, freezing the dough and sea salt on top. Gets em every time.

[tmtwc]

I found (on accident )that when hand mixing the recipe from your cookbook, if you whip the butter and sugar, fold in the dry ingredients carefully, and add the eggs when it almost starts to become a shaggy bunch of stuff and finish mixing carefully, the cookies don't spread so thin. I don't understand the science behind it, but its what works best for me without the stand mixer.

[cheesedono]

Amazing cookies! But one avenue you forgot to explore in pursuit of the ultimate cookie is flour types. All purpose is what I used for making cookies for years until someone explained that by having a higher protein flour like bread flour in your dough you can have add more moisture, hence making chewier cookies. Definitely something I recommend looking into Babish! :)

[tebla]

the two things I've found really help with cookies is using melted butter and using extra egg yolk instead of just all whole eggs

[HardlinerTheGeek]

Andrew, I'm proud of you & your team for taking time out of your busy lives to make these cookies & donate the proceeds to No Kid Hungry.

[MauriceMoss]

I feel like you stepped past basics here and went into food dissection. It was beautiful and awe-inspiring. I can't remember the last time I was this captivated with a cooking video. Knocked it out of the park this time Babish, home run video. And your combination of "Stuff" is genius. You may have created the ultimate party cookie.

[hurleygurlie]

I’m making the dough right now and it smells incredible. Thank you for explaining the proper way to brown butter. Two things about the recipe as it prints out from the website:
-vanilla extract is a listed ingredient but never mentioned in the instructions
-it would be easier to follow the recipe if the ingredients were listed in order of which they are used. The vanilla extract is listed within the dry ingredients.
I can’t wait to see how these turn out, and I look forward to having fun with the different inclusions. Thank you for sharing 💙

[eliloveless]

Eventually we are going to get a home made girl scout cookie episode and I’m here for it

[michaelmoccio]

Nothing like a classic babish video with the continous backdrop of "Murmurations" by Blue Wednesday. The song is and always has been perfect for his vibe.

[GregCurtin]

I love how you seriously thought out your control. Educating viewers is paramount to entertaining them and you manage to do both -- very well. Thank you for the time put in to film, edit, upload (and help fund a charity).

[DrKringle]

This is the first I’ve heard of Shef. I’ve been looking for a way to sell my baked goods and now I might finally have a chance to do it. I signed up the day I watched this video. Even if Shef isn’t in my small town yet, I hope to be ready as soon as it arrives. Thank you Babish!

[EfymirTheTransient]

A cool trick i use in my cookies is when i am done browning the butter instead of just throwing in water ice cubes, i toss in 1-2 coffee ice cubes i make prior along with a teaspoon of instant coffee (Trust me among all the other strong flavours in my cookies it's not overpowering). instead of adding granulated salt i like to mix in a small handful of himalyan pink rock salt so you get more concentrated pops of salt among all the other flavours going on, maybe some toasted nuts, and of course a nice mix of dark and mild chocolate. You get toasted nuttiness, chocolatiness, toffeelike, mocha like salty cookie. quite nice

[nne]

baking powder is baking soda mixed with cornstarch and cream of tar tar. cream of tar tar is used in candy making it keeps sugar from crystalizing and hardening. cornstarch gives a shew, and baking soda has a reaction with the cream of tar tar which fyi is an acid, and that's why it makes things rise.

[Mr.PoopyDoobertPants]

The smell that day of filming must have been heavenly 🍪 ❤

[maluse]

I really really really love the structure of this video, its really informative if we want to change the recipe and have our own perfect cookie. I would love to see this kind of thing with other foods like pizzas where you have a similar level of differing variables. It would save a lot of people a lot of time building their own recipes to see it.

[retro]

Love it. I use shortening. Less baking soda. And I take the tray out and smash it on the floor half way through baking. Flatten and wrinkle.

[twzzlrs]

I baked a batch cookies right after I finished making the dough and some cookies 48 hours later and the difference in taste and texture was crazy. The 1st batch just tasted like your run of the mill cookies but the 48 hour cookies were crispier and was more chewy on the inside but had more flavor than the 1st batch.

[videogme]

Also you can make brown sugar if you have molasses and regular granulated white sugar. ya know, in case you forget it at the store like a dingus or feel like mixing more things together.

[dolphincrescent]

I've used butter browned in a cast-iron skillet to make a skillet chocolate chip cookie and the smell is HEAVEN!