48-Hour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Brown butter, toffee chunks, good chocolate, and espresso make these my favorite cookies to bake for friends. Welcome to my personal channel!

music:
Ji-Eun's Sunset - City Girl
Left Blue - City Girl

My video style is heavily inspired by channels I love to watch, such as @zoe_one , @haegreendal , @babishculinaryuniverse , @NinosHome , @wtable6077, and more.

INGREDIENTS

Toffee:
1 stick unsalted butter
1 cup light brown sugar
1 tsp kosher salt

Brown Butter:
2 sticks unsalted butter
2 ice cubes

Dough:
1/2 cup sugar
1 ½ cups dark brown sugar
2 tsp espresso powder
2 tsp kosher salt
½ tsp baking soda
2 eggs
2 tsp good vanilla extract
2 ½ cups all purpose flour
6 oz chocolate, 70% cacao minimum
Maldon sea salt

[AlvinKZhou]

A lot of people probably won’t see this, but thank you for watching my first video! I like making videos of the food I cook at home, they’re my way of relaxing on the weekends.

[Cryptonius]

This guy is making cookies at home and is still having better cinematics shots than most studios... what a pleasure to watch👌🏻

[GeneralWarburg]

So, I made one of these for a girl a while back. We started dating soon afterwards and now she's my fiancée, so thank you for sharing this recipe with the world!

[yeaitsgreg]

0:33 ~ making the toffee
1:30 ~ mixing the sugar espresso salt and baking soda together
1:59 ~ making the brown butter
2:48 ~ mixing brown butter with the sugar mix from 1:30
3:09 ~ mixing in the eggs and the vanilla essence
3:36 ~ mixing in the flour
3:56 ~ crushing up the chocolate and smashing the toffee
4:33 ~ incorporating the chocolate and the toffee in the dough
5:05 ~ putting the cookie dough on the tray
5:28 ~ putting the tray in the fridge for two days
5:51 ~ putting them on a bigger tray and spreading them out
6:11 ~ baking


Hope this helps I did this so when you make it you can jump to each step have a dope day bye 👋🏼

Also what I’ve had happen is often my caramel ceases and I hate wasting the issue is that the sugar loses moisture very quickly and all you have to do is add a little water and stir stir stir and it comes right almost immediately

[marketman]

Ive made these cookies twice now. Best ever. Additional tips:

Make sure your browned butter is cooled down prior to mixing in with sugar. If its warm to your finger, its good to go in. If it feels "hot" let it continue cooling down before the addition.

Shift the flour so the addition is even into the mixture. No clumps

Use instant expresso powder. Not expresso grind.

Dont overmix your final cookie dough until the addition of chocolate. I like to leave the outside bowl coated in alittle white flour until i add the chocolate. Over mixing cookies = denser cookie

[danielkesse]

"there is less chocolate because I ate some"

relatable

[GunnarsGames]

Never in my life have I thought, “you know what sounds really good in 48 hours? A cookie.”

[pizzadeeya]

I swear, I keep finding myself revisiting this channel from time to time. Maybe it's because there's a mixture of comfort and nostalgia for me. There's just something special about the composition of your videos.

The cinematography, production, score, lighting, and EVERYTHING involved in EVERY video on this channel is S-tier. There's also just something special about these videos I can't put into words.

I know you don't post much on here anymore, but if you see this...thank you, Alvin Zhou.

[larahorhor]

Alvin is always making things for his friends.
So the question must be asked...
How does one become a friend of Alvin?

[luluwazarzar]

I just LOVE how he doesn’t narrate or even talk in his home videos

[strangeworld]

It’s Christmas which means it’s time to yearly delight my family with these cookies again, thank you Alvin!

[jw]

I know this channel is no longer active, and that this video was uploaded years ago, but this is one of the rare moments where i feel the need to comment on a video. I never knew a cookie could bring me such joy. I think i might go insane from how good it tastes.

The nuttiness from the browned butter and its smell is amazing. There was so much salt in the batter for a cookie i was skeptical at first, but it turned out to be great bc it makes it taste like salted caramel and the espresso adds so much depth to the batter. It tastes so much like salted caramel popcorn and i love those especially when its done well.

I want to thank you for sharing this recipe to the world and i do not know who taught you how to bake but whoever they are, wherever they may be, i'm sure they're very proud of how far you've come :)

[momotajbegum]

"Jewels of toffee and chocolate everywhere"

That is an amazing sentence

[milkshook]

A REVIEW NO ONE ASKED FOR BY SOMEONE WHO JUST MADE THE DOUGH A COUPLE MINUTES AGO:

Honestly at first this recipe was really daunting. But after having made the dough it's not as scary as it seems! If you're considering this recipe, keep reading!

1. The toffee? Probably my favorite part of this recipe ngl. I've never made something like it, I haven't even used a candy thermometer before. But it was so easy. Just stir, check the temp. I pulled it off the heat when the thermometer read 280 as opposed to 300, and poured it out. It was lighter and a little thicker than Alvin's. But I put it in the fridge for about an hour, and it turned out perfect. Seriously perfect.

Dont just buy premade toffee. Dont skip the toffee. It is totally worth it.

2. Brown butter. I've never browned butter before. I was really worried about burning it, but you just gotta put it on medium heat, let it melt, and then just keep stirring. It might not be like a brown liquid, but rather a golden liquid with brown bits at the bottom. The smell reminded me of the toffee. I added two ice cubes and it was done!

3. The actual dough. Mixing all the dry ingredients together I noticed I accidentally put in baking powder instead of baking soda! I tried to fix it best I could, but if the baking is weird then it's my fault lol. Dont make my mistake.

The dry ingredients smelled like espresso. I was a little worried as I dont really like the flavor of coffee, but once I added the butter and the vanilla all the flavors melded into just a great dough. Adding the chocolate and toffee (while snagging a few bites) the dough looked soooo good. Now it's in the fridge, resting while I must wait.

So maybe I'll update this in 2-3 days when I bake them. Lol thanks for reading my rambling

[marigoldflower]

Usually, whenever I make any baking recipe, I almost always change it a bit because there would be too much sugar, or too much flour. But I didn’t change a single thing in this recipe and it came out beyond perfect. Best cookie recipe!! Thanks Alvin!

[cliffordfarley]

After your 100 hour brownie recipe and this cookie recipe. You’ve inspired me to step up my baking game.

[honeybeewantsahalo]

I swear Alvin could make his own studio probably better then tasty

[secondraygun]

"Sometimes, I like to talk to my food."
*Nervous stirring*
"They don't talk back though."

[anaismybsflol]

This is like a movie, I love how aesthetically pleasing this is and I love seeing people bake//cook things ✨💕

[annesmith]

The lack of narrative and the gentle music, your use of the window to cool. All of this makes me ridiculously happy. Thank you Alvin. Your videos are my therapy.