A Little Love Letter

Out of a million cookie recipes, this is the one I would bake again and again. Truly. Some recipes are good, some are even really good, and then there are these cookies. These thick, soft, slightly chewy bakery style cookies that look like you did not simply bake them in your own kitchen, but like they came from a small, very good bakery where everything is a little too expensive, but you still fall for it every single time.

I have tried so many cookie recipes over the past few years. Some were beautifully crisp like these White Chocolate Coconut Lime Cookies and some wonderfully soft like these White Chocolate Blueberry Cookies & Blueberry Icing. But this recipe feels like another level to me. And the little trick that makes the flavor so special is almost too simple: butter flavoring. Just a few drops and suddenly the dough no longer tastes like regular homemade cookies, but like those really good bakery cookies where you wonder why they taste so much better.

After baking, you can of course decorate the cookies however you like. I drizzled a little more vanilla chocolate on top and used colorful sprinkle pearls.

And the best part is: you can freeze the cookie dough balls for up to 3 months. That means you can have warm, freshly baked bakery style cookies at home whenever you like, almost instantly.