Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

Okay. These are hands-down the BEST chocolate chip cookies I have EVER made and I've tried a lot of different recipes.

I got this recipe from Apple a Day and adapted it slightly (basically just replaced the baking soda with baking powder; used salted butter; and used half milk and half white chocolate chips). Anyways, what makes these chocolate chip cookies the best is one special ingredient: cornstarch, which makes the cookies fluffy, rather than flat. If you're not a fan of fluffy cookies, then this recipe isn't for you. Everyone else, try it... NOW :)

What you'll need:

3/4 cup salted butter, softened
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp cornstarch
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup white chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350 F.

In a large bowl, cream together butter, brown sugar, and sugar until the mixture is fluffy. Add egg and vanilla, and mix together.

In a separate bowl, mix flour, cornstarch, and baking powder together. Add this dry mixture to the wet mixture. Mix together.

Stir in the milk and white chocolate chips. Alternatively, you can use 1 cup of any type of chocolate: bittersweet, milk, and/or white. I'm a huge fan of white chocolate, so I opted for half milk and half white.

Form balls about 1 inch in diameter and place onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 8-10 minutes, until the cookies are barely golden brown around the edges. Although the cookies may not look like they're done, trust me, they are. You don't want to over bake these cookies or they will end up hard and crunchy —you want soft and chewy. Let the cookies cool on a wire rack and enjoy with a cold glass of milk.

I make fairly large cookie dough balls, so this recipe makes about 20 cookies.