Perfect Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies with slightly crisp edges, chewy middles, and the best flavor! With my easy recipe you only need to chill the dough for 30 minutes! Try this wildly-popular chocolate chip cookie recipe for yourself. These are the best chocolate chip cookies ever! Make sure to try my white chocolate chip cookies too!
Homemade Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies
Everyone needs a perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe in their recipe book, and this is definitely mine. These are seriously one of the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever!
A few years ago there was quite a buzz on a popular recipe that the New York Times featured, it was a close adaptation to the Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip cookies. If you’ve ever had a Jacques Torres cookie then you can agree, they are some darn good cookies.
When I got all the ingredients ready for the NYT recipe, I realized two things. First off, I did not have the type of chocolate Mr. Torres recommends for his cookies and I had no plans to go out and spend $15 to get said chocolate. Second, his recipe called for refrigerating the dough for 36 hours. Wait, what? This girl wants cookies now. Thirty-six hours of waiting? Are you crazy?
So that’s how these QUICK Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies were made!
Ingredients You Need:
- All purpose flour
- Bread flour
- Baking soda
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Butter
- Brown sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Egg
- Vanilla extract
- Chocolate chips
- Sea salt for sprinkling on top of the cookies
Here’s what I changed in the recipe so everyone can make them:
- I’m using a more budget friendly chocolate (aka store bought chocolate chips).
- I changed the size of the cookie, so we use less ingredients.
- I changed the serving size. I can’t have 72 cookies in my kitchen because I will eat them all.
- I shortened the chill time. No more waiting 36 hours!
Not only are they quite possibly the prettiest chocolate chip cookies I have ever baked, but they also taste SO amazing. They are everything a chocolate chip cookie should be: the perfect chewy texture, sweet with a little salty on top. They’re magic.
How To Make Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies
Start this cookie recipe like most and mix the flours (all purpose and bread), baking soda, baking powder and salt in a medium mixing bowl. Set aside.
Bread flour really helps cookies obtain a chewy texture. You need to try making my chocolate chip cookies made with bread flour after you make these!
Then, use a hand mixer to cream the butter and sugars together until they are light and fluffy. Add the egg and mix together. Stir in the vanilla.
Now add the dry ingredients in with the butter mixture and continue to mix until all ingredients are fully combined.
Next, add the chocolate chips into the batter and stir by hand, with a spoon, to equally distribute the chocolate chips into the batter.
Transfer the bowl of dough to the refrigerator and chill for 30 minutes. That’s right… just 30 minutes!
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Drop tablespoons of dough on a cookie sheet or silicone baking mats. I can usually fit 12 cookies per sheet. Tip: You might want to add a few more chocolate chips to the top of each cookie, to make for a prettier cookie.
Sprinkle each cookie lightly with sea salt and bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown. Enjoy these warm cookies fresh from the oven!
Storing Cookies
Store cookies in an airtight container (like a glass jar or cookie tin) or you can place them in a sealed plastic bag. Chocolate Chip Cookies can last for 2-3 weeks, but will harden as they continue to seat.
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Jacques Torres Chocolate Chip Cookies (Made Quickly)
PrintIngredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 3/4 cup bread flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 8 ounces chocolate chips
- Sea salt to sprinkle on top
Instructions
- Mix flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
- In another bowl cream butter and sugars together until fluffy with a hand mixer. Add egg and vanilla and mix together.
- Add dry ingredients into the wet dough mixture and continue to mix until it's fully combined.
- Add chocolate chips into batter and stir with spoon to equally distribute.
- Place dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Drop tablespoons of dough on nonstick cookie sheet. I can usually fit 12 cookies per sheet. Arrange chocolate chips to "poke up" on the cookies at this time to make for a more pretty cookie. Sprinkle each cookie lightly with sea salt.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes or until golden brown.
- Eat the cookies warm, enjoy! Store cookies in an airtight container or sealed plastic bag.
Anna (Hidden Ponies) says
I have an obscene obsession with good chocolate chip cookies. I wouldn’t even try to tell you I wasn’t going to eat 5 more of these.
Tracy | Pale Yellow says
I’ve saved the Jacques Torres recipe but have never made it because of the wait time. I can’t wait to try this quick version!
miss messy says
These look absolutely amazing! Wow! I need to make them.
Amanda @ Once Upon a Recipe says
I would give my left arm for a batch of these cookies – they look wonderful! You can’t go wrong with a good chocolate chip cookie, so classic!
ela@GrayApron says
Eat warm…must be nice! Great cookies! ๐ ela
Ashley says
Bahaha I definitely want to go to the chocolate chip cookie mothership!! These look utterly fantastic.
sandra says
I always see these perfect recipes and have yet to try one. Maybe now is the time…
Pamela says
You’ll love them Sandra!
Mason Canyon says
These look so yummy. Just add a glass of milk and I’m in heaven. ๐
Laura@Baking In Pyjamas says
They look scrumptious! I’m always on the lookout for a new chocolate chip cookie recipe. I’d love for you to link up at Sweet and Savoury Sundays. Stop by and link up now ๐
Dixya @ Food, Pleasure, and Health says
i have not tried his recipe but heard so much. I am glad you got your cookie fix because really 36 hours?
Shashi @ http://runninsrilankan.com says
30 minute chill time I am so down with!
The texture of these cookies is amazing! Bread flour in cookies – well I never ….Brilliant Pamela!
Abbe@This is How I Cook says
Chocolate chip cookies are my favorite! These look good! No point in waiting to eat them unless it is an emergency!
marcie says
These cookies do look like magic, Pamela, and I know they would magically disappear, too. ๐
Angie@Angie's Recipes says
Chilling the dough for 36 hours? I sure can’t wait that long…maybe I could double the recipe and leave half in the fridge and bake another half immediately…these cookies look divine!
Monica says
Fresh chocolate chip cookies from the oven is like the best medicine in the world. I’ve tried this recipe before though I didn’t make them as big as the original and I didn’t have the chocolate feves either. I almost think it’s impossible not to adjust that recipe a little when making it at home! It came out great but it wasn’t quite his cookie that we devoured in the store. I’m glad yours came out so wonderfully! Enjoy a few extra for us!
Helen @ Scrummy Lane says
This looks like a great ‘go-to’ choc chip cookie recipe, Pamela! Pinning for later cookie cravings!
Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness says
Oh my gosh. The perfect chocolate chip cookie. Be still my heart.
These look amazing Pamela!
Daniela @ FoodrecipesHQ says
Perfectly looking cookies… Well done, my dear!
The Squishy Monster says
Yum, these look divine!
Tandy | Lavender and Lime says
This is the first recipe I’ve seen for cookies that uses bread flour ๐
Maryea {happy healthy mama} says
Well, you’ve convinced me. I will try this recipe. My husband is the biggest chocolate chip cookie snob in the world, so if he likes these, they are really, really good. I’ll report back. ๐
Kelly @ hidden fruits and veggies says
36 hours? What the what! That’s way too long — but I guess you’d at least have cookie dough to eat during the zombie apocalypse? 30 minutes is much more reasonable, plus these cookies looks AHHHH MAZING.
Mary Frances says
I haven’t tried it either, but believe me, I’m calling “come to mama!” louder than you right now! ๐ They look so good, especially considering only 30 minutes of chill time vs, *gasp* 36 hours!
Alex says
I’m waving my white flag. I surrender. Soooo yummy!
Danielle @ Dani Cakes says
These have been my go-to cookie recipe for the last 3 years! I cannot stop eating them when I make a batch and have to force myself to give them away to people (I am very protective of chocolate chip cookies – so to give them away is a big deal). We stopped by Jacques Torres in NYC before the marathon last fall just so I could taste the real thing. SOOOO GOOD!!
Davida @ The Healthy Maven says
Have I everrrr read that article! And I’ve tried to mimic it a million times but they’re never quite as good. Truth be told I’m a city bakery CCC fan but it’s all good cause I’ll be there next week and I plan to stock up majorly and freeze them when I get home. But when I get home I’ll have to try your fool-proof recipe!
Debra says
I like quick and easy!
Laura @ Lauras Baking Talent says
These cookies look delicious! I’m with you on the chill time… when I want my cookies I want them now… 36 hours from now… I may totally be onto brownies or something ๐
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
THESE LOOK DELISH!
But girl….trust me….try it: try letting them sit for 32 hours. Just….TRUST ME
Jamie | Jamie's Recipes says
I haven’t made his cookies because I know if I had to wait 36 hours for the dough to chill there wouldn’t be much cookie dough left to bake with. We are chronic dough snitchers in this house. 30 minutes wait time is more doable. ๐