Chocolate "ChipChunk" Cookies

I love chocolate chip cookies! The smell that fills the house while they're baking should be bottled. I'm completed in love with the chocolate chip/chunk cookes from Zoe's Kitchen. One bite and you have to take a moment to regain your composure. I'm not kidding. I wanted to try to duplicate them (which is absolutely impossible) but thought I'd give it a try. They were very tasty. Not Zoe's. However, my family gobbled up as many as I'd let them have!

Ingredients
2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
2 extra-large eggs at room temperature
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
1 cup semisweet chocolate chunks

Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.


Cream the butter and two sugars until light and fluffy in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the vanilla, then the eggs, one at a time, and mix well. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt and add to the butter with the mixer on low speed, mixing only until combined. Fold in the chocolate chips.
Drop the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, using a 1 3/4-inch-diameter ice cream scoop or a rounded tablespoon. Dampen your hands and flatten the dough slightly. Take about a tablespoon of the chocolate chunks and press them into the top of the unbaked cookies. Bake for exactly 14 minutes (the cookies will seem underdone). Remove from the oven and let cool slightly on the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. Makes 2 dozen cookies.

Mixing the butter and the sugars.
Once fluffy, mix in vanilla and eggs.

Add flour, salt and baking soda mixture to butter mixture.

Add chocolate chips. Don't overmix!

You can buy chocolate chunks, but I had a big block of chocolate I had to chop up.

I use a cookie scoop to measure out the cookie dough onto the cookie sheet.
Please, notice the silpat on the cookie sheet. It's awesome!!! A great investment.
If you don't have one, use parchment paper or a nonstick cookie sheet.

All measured out.

Lightly dampen your fingers and press the dough down slightly.

Add as many chocolate chunks as possible to the tops of the cookies.
Be generous!

Ready for the oven!

14 minutes later...cooling on wire rack.

Chocolate "ChipChunk" Cookies and Milk. Good night!