My Ultimate Cookie | Basics with Babish

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.

I love cookies.

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

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! :)

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

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

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 💙

My favorite cookie uses a basic chocolate chip base, but it has the light brown sugar switched out for dark brown sugar. The butter swapped out for brown butter. Then, make it into a white chip macadamia nut cookie that spreads out nicely in the oven for a soft chewy cookie with crispy edges. These changes also make a great chocolate chip cookie if you use mini chocolate chips and only half the amount that your standard tolehouse recipe calls for. This keeps it from being too chocolaty and still gets a bit of chocolate in every bite.

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.

You’re the one that me on to brown butter, so while I’m skeptical of the flavored coffee, I’ll absolutely try it!

I’ve really enjoyed watching your videos over the years and seeing the ink collection on the forearms grow!

My favorite cookie recipe is the one on Basics with Babish. The browned butter and sea salt on top combine to make a truly foodgasmic flavor and texture. So grateful for that recipe.