Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies

Name: Salted Chocolate Chunk Shortbread Cookies
Yield: 24
Ingredients: 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (2 1/4 sticks) salted butter, cold (room temperature if you're using a handheld mixer), cut into 1/2-inch pieces (see note); 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 1/4 cup light brown sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour; 6 ounces semi-sweet or bittersweet dark chocolate, chopped (not too fine, you want chunks, not little shards); 1 large egg, beaten; Demerara sugar, for rolling; Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling

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"These wildly popular cookies were developed by Alison Roman for her cookbook, “Dining In: Highly Cookable Recipes.” “I’ve always found chocolate chip cookies to be deeply flawed (to know this about me explains a lot),” she writes. “Too sweet, too soft, or with too much chocolate, there’s a lot of room for improvement, if you ask me. But no one asked me, and rather than do a complete overhaul on the most iconic cookie known to man, I took all my favorite parts and invented something else entirely. Made with lots of salted butter (it has a slightly different flavor and a deeper saltiness than using just salt — I prefer unsalted butter everywhere else but here), the dough has just enough flour to hold it together and the right amount of light brown sugar to suggest a chocolate chip cookie.” Learn: How to Make Sugar Cookies..."

INGREDIENTS

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1 cup plus 2 tablespoons (2 1/4 sticks) salted butter, cold (room temperature if you're using a handheld mixer), cut into 1/2-inch pieces (see note)

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1/2 cup granulated sugar

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1/4 cup light brown sugar

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1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

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6 ounces semi-sweet or bittersweet dark chocolate, chopped (not too fine, you want chunks, not little shards)

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1 large egg, beaten

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Demerara sugar, for rolling

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Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling

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