Description
Chocolate chip celebration cookies bring pure joy to holiday gatherings with festive sprinkles and rich chocolate. Sweet memories and delightful flavors connect family and friends around this irresistible treat.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 stick (½ cup or 113 g) salted butter, melted
- 1 large egg
- 1⅔ cups all-purpose white flour
- ½ cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup white chocolate chips
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- ¼ cup white sugar
- ¼ cup Christmas red/green/white mix sprinkles
- 2 tsps vanilla extract
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
Instructions
- Preparation: Gather all ingredients and tools, creating an efficient and festive baking environment with a pristine, organized workspace.
- Thermal Preparation: Calibrate the oven to 350°F (177°C), ensuring precise heat distribution for optimal cookie performance.
- Surface Setup: Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, establishing a non-stick foundation for flawless cookie release.
- Dry Ingredient Symphony: Whisk flour, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in a mixing bowl, creating a harmonious blend of dry components.
- Sugar Transformation: Cream melted butter with brown and white sugars, developing a smooth, glossy base that promises rich flavor and tender texture.
- Liquid Integration: Fold egg and vanilla extract into the sugar mixture, creating a silky, uniform blend that forms the cookie’s foundational essence.
- Dough Fusion: Gently incorporate dry ingredients into the wet mixture, maintaining a delicate touch to preserve the cookie’s potential for perfect tenderness.
- Festive Embellishment: Delicately fold chocolate chips and sprinkles throughout the dough, ensuring a balanced distribution of celebratory elements.
- Portioning Precision: Deploy a cookie scoop to create uniform dough mounds, guaranteeing consistent shape and even baking performance.
- Baking Choreography: Arrange cookie mounds on the prepared sheet, providing adequate spacing to accommodate natural spreading during the baking process.
- Thermal Transformation: Bake in the preheated oven for 11-12 minutes, watching for golden edges and slightly soft centers that promise ultimate cookie perfection.
- Cooling Ritual: Allow cookies to rest on the baking sheet for 10 minutes, enabling structural stabilization and flavor development.
- Final Refinement: Transfer cookies to a wire cooling rack, permitting complete cooling to achieve the ultimate texture and flavor profile.
Notes
- Prevent Overmixing: Stir dry and wet ingredients gently to keep cookies tender and prevent tough, dense texture.
- Temperature Matters: Use room temperature ingredients for smoother blending and more consistent cookie performance.
- Spacing Technique: Place cookie dough mounds at least 2 inches apart to allow proper spreading and even baking.
- Cooling is Crucial: Let cookies rest on the baking sheet for 10 minutes to set structure before transferring to a wire rack.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 12 minutes (per batch)
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 25
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 8 g
- Sodium: 90 mg
- Fat: 7 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 20 g
- Fiber: 0.5 g
- Protein: 1.5 g
- Cholesterol: 15 mg