The best chocolate chip cookies...really!

Chocolate chip cookies are comfort...they are sweet and melty and feel like a good hug.  We've tried a lot of recipes, but this one is the one we keep coming back to.  I think Kara has it memorized.  If I wasn't so old, I might memorize it too....:)  So, live on chocolate chip cookies...we love you.

The best chocolate chip cookies.

(Adapted from Anna Olson)

2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp cornstarch
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup unsalted butter at room temp
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla

1)  Preheat oven to 350F.  In a medium bowl, using a fork, stir flour with cornstarch, baking soda and salt until evenly mixed.  Measure out chocolate chips.  Place butter in a large bowl.  Using an electric mixer, beat until smooth (about 1 min).  Beat in brown and granulated sugars  until fluffy (about 2 mins).  Beat in egg and vanilla.  Using a spoon, stir in flour mixture and chocolate chips until just evenly mixed.
2) Cover baking sheet with parchment paper.  Scoop out a small cookie scoop of dough (we like our cookies a bit bigger) and place on sheet.  Repeat with remaining dough, spacing at least 2 inches apart.  Do not press down.
3)  Bake, one sheet at a time, in centre of oven until cookies are golden around the edges (12 - 15 mins for large cookies...8 - 10 for 1 tbsp sized cookies).  Let stand for 2 minutes then remove to rack to cool.
4) Eat as many as you can right now...they go fast!