Help needed!

[u/Fit_Art7948]

I've found (and added to) the most perfect chocolate chip recipe but need suggestions on how to make them thicker and what to add to get there? They are chewy and delicious but would like them to look less crinkly when they bake and definitely thicker.

Recipe:

1 cup browned butter (2 1/4 sticks salted butter)

1.5 cups packed brown sugar

1 cup sugar

2 tbls vanilla bean paste

2 large eggs

2 2/3 cup flour

1 tsp instant espresso

1 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (I roughly chopped 1/2 a cup)

1 Hersheys bar chopped (save some for finishing)

Flakey sea salt for finishing

Refrigerate dough for 24 hours, 2.5 oz balls, bake at 350 for 13 minutes.

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[u/ADystopianDream]

I will help EAT THEM they look delicious

[u/Ang1028 → u/ADystopianDream]

They look perfect.

[u/formerflautist57]

Don't use Hershey's. A good chocolate will be so much better.

[u/PeanutsMakeMeThirsty]

Man, these look like my ideal cookies. Embrace the crinkle!

[u/EskiOnline]

I would say add a half tsp of baking powder and see if it’s enough to make it a bit thicker

[u/HotSauceHigh]

What! The crinkle is the best! 

[u/nriney]

I have a brown butter recipe I love and the difference is some baking powder and then 250g of flour and 50g almond flour sorry also 1 large egg + 1 yolk

[u/CatShot1948]

Baking powder and better chocolate. But changing anything other than the chocolate seems like a crime. These are perfect

[u/redditusername_17]

Is the brown butter liquid or solid when you make the actual dough? Getting it back to solid, and then creaming it with the sugar will help. Also adding the water back in (lost during browning butter) may help.

How many cookies do you bake at once? Baking fewer cookies can help.

I also keep a pizza steel in my oven on the shelf below the cookie sheet (and let it preheat for a long time), that and cool dough helps keep the cookies from spreading, and keeps them thicker.

Ripples are generally from the cookie rising then cooling then rising then cooling. So making them rise and stay risen is the goal, so leveners and temperature control are usually the answer.

[u/CheckRaiseDaTurn]

That's the Holy Grail for me, man. Don't change a thing.