Egg Yolks Make Claire Ptak’s Chocolate Chip Cookies Stand Out Among the Rest

The cookie dough can be made ahead. While Claire instructs you to freeze the portioned cookie dough for an hour, she says you can also freeze it for up to one month. That makes these the perfect cookies to gift to your future self.

Scoop the dough into heaping tablespoons (or larger). It wasn’t initially clear to me how big the dough balls should be, so I used a medium-sized cookie scoop (the equivalent of a heaping tablespoon). This gave me a batch of 40 cookies, so you’ll definitely have plenty to freeze, if you’d like. Later, I realized Claire intended the cookies to be much larger, with a yield of only 16. However, I happened to like the smaller, hand-held size I baked.

Keep an eye on the baking time. The recipe states to bake the cookies for 18 minutes, but because of their smaller size, mine were ready to pull at 15. If you scoop them out similarly, start checking them at around 12 or 13 minutes.