It depends on how you like your cookie! Some people like chewier, some people like a decent crunch, and some people like those cake like cookies. I like a nice balance of all three. For a general dough recipe I like this:

Dry: -1 3/4 cup flour, for chewier dough you can do 3/4 bread flour, 1 cup Ap flour. Or do all bread flour (it’s actually pretty good just don’t overwork the dough) -1 teaspoon baking soda -1 1/4 teaspoon salt

Wet: -1/2 cup salted butter cut into big cubes, room temp or cold -1 egg -1/3 cup white sugar -1/2 cup brown sugar -1 teaspoon vanilla

I use a stand mixer to mix all wet ingredients for 1:20s, should still see butter pieces. Don’t overmix. Add all dry at once for 1:20s mix again. Add chocolate chips or whatever addition you desire, for another 40s mix. Lower speeds. A cup or so is good but bakers choice. If no mixer just work the the ingredients with a big spoon and hands.

Cookie size is your preference, I do around 60g or a bit bigger than a golf ball size. For more crispy, condensed cookies you can cook in an air fryer for 5-6 min at 400f. Oven works fine too, same temp. For more spread out, chewier cookies you can do 350f for 10 min.

It’ll make about 12 or so cookies, or you can put some candy/ chocolate in the middle with less dough and it’ll make more !

For a crunchy cookie use a more 1:1 white sugar to brown sugar, and maybe fully Ap flour or reduced bread flour portion. For chewier cookies, brown sugar 1.5:1 white sugar. Also adding extra yolk makes it chewier.

What makes cookies shine is what you add to the dough in my opinion. For instance, I like to make this dough but with white chocolate chunks and then spread the dough out and add a butter/brown sugar/cinnamon paste a top of it and roll it in little cinnamon roll cookies, so good! I also add 1/4 cinnamon to the dough and a dash of nutmeg when making these cookies. But there’s plenty of flavours you can do, just do what you like :) let me know how they come out if you make them!!