This chip's unexpected shape is the key to perfect chocolate chip cookies.
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On my first day of culinary school, our chef taught us how to bake proper chocolate chip cookies. There are a lot of lessons to be learned in that one recipe, including the right way to cream butter and sugar, the importance of measuring ingredients accurately, and why splurging on good ingredients sets you apart from the competition.
Mastering the techniques was easy. It was the ingredients aspect that never quite left me satisfied when it came to my own chocolate chip cookies recipe. I’ve made tweaks throughout the years (browned butter and good vanilla were huge improvements), but only on a recent trip to the grocery store did I realize that splurging on good chocolate chips wasn’t enough—it was the shape of the chips that I had a problem with.
Down the baking aisle, I noticed the chocolate chips were 50% off. All bakers know how expensive chocolate chips are right now (which is why we sometimes make homemade chocolate chips), so I felt I had to buy at least one bag. My go-to is Guittard for its top-quality ingredients, fair trade practices and sustainability efforts. I rifled through all the brand’s offerings and came across a bag I had never seen before: Guittard Super Cookie Chips. Intrigued, I placed it in my cart along with a bag of the brand’s regular semisweet chocolate chips.
Guittard Super Cookie Chips
What are Guittard’s Super Cookie Chips?
Guittard Super Cookie Chips are flat, disk-shaped chocolate chips. They look like someone took two regular-sized chocolate chips and flattened them with their thumb into one disk. As you can see in the photo, the Super Cookie Chips on the left are significantly larger than the standard chocolate chips on the right.
Guittard’s site describes its Super Cookie Chips as “twice the amount of chocolate that stays melted for a long time.” The site also indicates that the chips have the lowest possible fluidity, so they won’t leak or spread when they melt. So far, all good signs. But do they live up to the promise? There was only one way to find out: by making batches of two chocolate chip cookies, one with regular chocolate chips and the other with Super Cookie Chips.
What makes these chocolate chips worth the splurge?
The Super Cookie Chips absolutely delivered. Right away, I noticed that the flat shape helped them stay layered throughout the cookie, and their width resulted in large pools of melted chocolate throughout. It was a stark difference from the random little chocolate dots I’ve come to expect from regular chips. Also, just as the website promised, the chips stayed melted for longer and didn’t spread. In other words, the cookies tasted like you had a lot more chocolate in every bite of cookie.
Personally, I find the cookies made with Super Cookie Chips more attractive-looking. They give off bakery-style-cookie vibes, whereas cookies made with regular chocolate chips look, well, homemade! There’s nothing wrong with that if that’s what you’re going for, but I prefer the gourmet look. Here’s what my cookies with the regular chocolate chips looked like for comparison:
Overall, the Super Cookie Chips made my chocolate chip cookies look more attractive, and even improved the eating experience. I even feel like their bigger shape stretched the bag further—I don’t think I need to use quite as many Super Cookie Chips as I would regular chips. I’ve finally perfected my chocolate chip cookie recipe, and these chips were the finishing touch—along with a little Maldon sea salt!
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