Name: Chocolate Chip Flying Saucers
Cook time: 15 minutes plus cooling
Yield: Makes about twenty 4-inch cookies
Ingredients: 2 sticks unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 cup granulated sugar; 1 cup (packed) dark brown sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 3/4 teaspoon fine salt; 1/2 teaspoon baking soda; 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour; 2/3 cup white whole-wheat flour; 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

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Chocolate Chip Flying SaucersKevin Hart

These flat, chewy, half whole-wheat cookies are for the chocolate chip purist: no nuts, no frills—pure bliss. They will fly out of the kitchen mysteriously. Use a 1-ounce (2-tablespoon-capacity) ice-cream scoop for easy measuring.

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