Ina Garten’s Chocolate Chunk Cookies is an excellent, make-again cookie recipe with chocolate chunks and walnuts. This recipe comes from Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Parties cookbook. That cookbook is so old (2001), but it’s still one that I reach for once in a while when I’m entertaining.
Ina Garten shared her unconventional tip for getting perfectly wrinkled chocolate-chip cookies. The Barefoot Contessa said she bangs her sheet pan on a counter during the baking process. After testing out her method, I'll never make cookies without banging the pan again. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.
Bake for exactly 15 minutes (the cookies will seem underdone). Remove from the oven, sprinkle with flaked sea salt, and allow to cool slightly on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Adapted from "Barefoot Contessa Parties!"
The most bizarre part of Garten's cookie method is also the most important: She slams the baking sheet on the stovetop to flatten her cookies. I've never heard of this before, but I have always wondered how I could get those massive, thin, rippling cookies I sometimes see in a fancy bakery.