When she finally nailed the recipe, she aptly named it Martha Stewart Fired Me Cookies and included it in her 2024 memoir, The Order of Things: A Memoir About Chasing Joy. After taking to Instagram to talk about the cookie, Gormley's recipe went viral—first for the provocative name, and then for the delicious cookie itself.
In addition to baking up a batch of the cookies myself, I also spoke with Gormley to get the inside scoop on her one-of-a-kind recipe. “I tell people the four most important tweaks to a regular chocolate chip cookie recipe are: 50% more chips, refrigerating the dough, slamming the pan (hard, to make the center fall) and the Maldon sea salt,” Gormley tells Parade.
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Martha Stewart Fired Me Cookies certainly has a way of drawing your attention, but the name of the recipe doesn't just exist to be alluring—it's based on an actual experience.
“I had plenty of time on my hands that summer, and as I explain in my memoir, I worked out a lot, drank lots of martinis at The Red Cat and decided I may as well learn to bake an exceptionally good chocolate chip cookie,” Gormley shares.
“The tweaks were tiny measurement changes—for example, trying ¼ cup more or less of all of the sugars, and then for the flour, and ½ teaspoon iterations with the vanilla," she explains. The amount of chocolate chips was also something she spent a lot of time testing, tasting and dialing in.
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What Makes the ‘Martha Stewart Fired Me Cookies’ Special?
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There’s also a bit more salt in this cookie dough compared to other chocolate chip cookie recipes out there. A duo of salted butter and sea salt are added to the dough, then flaky salt is sprinkled on top of the cookie before and after they’re baked, which adds flavor and a sophisticated bakery vibe.
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Ingredients Needed for 'Martha Stewart Fired Me Cookies'
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Gormley uses salted butter in her cookies, which is a departure from the unsalted butter that most baking recipes typically call for. She also calls for three varieties of sugar—regular granulated sugar, light brown sugar, and dark brown sugar. “I’ve learned that the dark brown sugar adds a molasses-like flavor and some of the chewiness,” she explains.
As for the chocolate, Gormley recommends using chocolate chunks over chips if you can, for a little added texture. It's not strictly necessary, though, so if you do go the chocolate chip route, you'll need about one and a half bags. (She calls for 18 ounces and a standard bag of chocolate chips weighs 12 ounces.)
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How To Make the 'Martha Stewart Fired Me Cookies'
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Meanwhile, whisk the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together in a separate bowl. Then, gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture until you end up with a cohesive cookie dough. At this stage, the dough will look homogenous but will still be a little soft, which is why chilling the dough makes such a difference (more on that soon). Then, it's time to fold in all of that chocolatey goodness (be it chunks or chips) until they're evenly distributed throughout the dough.
(For those curious, the science behind chilling cookie dough comes down to solidifying the fat, giving the dough time to hydrate and allowing the dough to dry out a bit. Those factors help deepen the flavor of the cookies, encourage browning and help the cookies spread less as they bake.)
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Next comes the really fun part—slamming the baking sheet on the countertop a few times until the cookies flatten a bit. The result is slightly crinkly cookies with crispy edges and a soft, chewy center.
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'Martha Stewart Fired Me Cookies': My Honest Thoughts
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Gormley says that she makes dough balls that are a bit larger than a quarter, which I did find to be slightly confusing (and slightly small). In the end, I found that shaping large balls using about three generous tablespoons of dough yielded perfectly sized cookies for me. Because I made larger cookies, I needed to increase the bake time. Gormley says that the cookies should bake in about 10 minutes, but I needed an additional three to four minutes per batch. I ended up with a little more than four dozen cookies from the batch of dough.
Also, I can attest to the fact that the cookies tasted nearly as good days later as they did freshly baked, which isn't something that happens often. And yes, I'm planning to eat every single one.
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• Sarah Gormley, gallerist, writer, viral cookie creator and author of The Order of Things: A Memoir About Chasing Joy.
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