Courteney Cox calls it ‘the best damn cookie I’ve ever had!’: Here’s the recipe

Courteney Cox calls it ‘the best damn cookie I’ve ever had!’: Here’s the recipe

Remember the “Friends” episode “The One with Phoebe’s Cookies” where Monica obsesses over making the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe? Looks like the master chef finally found it.

“Seriously the best damn cookie I’ve ever had!” Courteney Cox wrote in her Instagram caption under a reel where she bakes the perfect chocolate chip cookie with Paul Cassell.

The Alabama native and “Friends” star shared the full recipe for “Chocolate Chunk with Maldon Sea Salt” cookies via Instagram on Wednesday, and we are ready to put on an apron and get to work.

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Working with Cassell (whose IG profile says, “I bake cookies, bars, cakes and pies.”), Cox uses an array of ingredients including your standard butter, sugar (white and brown), flour, baking soda, eggs and other fare (all at room temperature) needed to whip up some cookies. But toss in the dark chocolate discs and milk chocolate chunks to make the dough you let rest in your refrigerator for at least 36 hours (yes, that’s thirty-six).

“Is that why everything tastes so good?” Cox asks, as Cassell confirms. He insists on each ball of dough weighing 3.75 ounces, so you’re talking some very large cookies. And who’s complaining? One of the cherries, er, chocolates on top: “Slightly press a larger chocolate chunk into the center of each dough ball.” And once they cool from the oven, you can sprinkle flakes of the namesake Maldon Sea Salt.

The full recipe is in the caption to Cox’s Instagram post, with an abridged demonstration video showing the ingredients and finished product, plus the “Scream” star tasting it and repeating it’s “the best damn cookie I’ve ever had.”

During the third episode of the seventh season of the famed NBC sitcom, Phoebe lends grandmother’s secret cookie recipe to Monica as an engagement gift, but (spoiler alert for the uninitiated) it turns out the recipe that was lost in a fire was for Nestle Toll House, rendering Monica’s painstaking marathon effort to recreate them pointless.

These, on the other hand, look like they’re worth the trouble. Watch the video and read the full recipe below.

“Friends” was one of the highest-rated shows on TV during its 10-season run on NBC, 1994-2004. The series provided a breakthrough role for Cox and cemented her fame as an actress. Her character, Monica Geller, was a neat-freak chef who could be bossy, obsessive, anxious, wacky, kind and caring — sometimes all at once.

Born and raised in Birmingham, she then became a scream queen during the mid-1990s, starring as cutthroat TV reporter Gale Weathers in Wes Craven’s meta-slasher flick that spawned several sequels. She’s since appeared in each sequel, including the sixth entry bookending the series, “Scream VI,” which released in theaters in spring 2023.

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