I learned something new today. Chocolate chip cookie dough, and most likely other similar cookies, benefit from being aged at least 24 hours before being baked.
Quest for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie
I found this to be an entertaining and informative article. However, there is one thing that I would change with the recipe. Instead of bothering to sift your flour and leaveners together, just add the leaveners and salt to the bowl when you are creaming the butter and sugar. This does a better job of evenly dispersing the leaveners than trying to whisk and/or sift them with the flour. Plus, it saves you a step and gives you one less thing to wash!
I like the idea of adding the lavender and salt with the sugar during the creaming stage. It will take a serious mental shift to plan ahead for chocolate chip cookies; they are often a rainy Saturday afternoon spur of the moment baking project. If the results are as good as the article says, it won’t take much to change my habits. I would love to make stunning chocolate chip cookies.