That's a minuscule amount of lemon juice. Spread over that many cookies, I can't imagine it would be noticeable.

Agree. That looks like the kind of "new" recipe where they take someone else's recipe and add 1/4 tsp of anything odd they can think of to call it 'their' new recipe.

A pinch of cinnamon is less than 1/8 teaspoon. A 1/4 teaspoon of lemon juice is also almost nothing. I agree, those two ingredients were added, so they could call it their special recipe without changing the taste at all. Just make the original recipe.

Anyone up for some experimenting? You could make half batches, making one as written, and one without the lemon juice. Then see how they differ. I don’t have time today, but I’ll give it a try someday.

Did you get the recipe from an official Doubletree publication? I can't help but be reminded of the infamous "Neiman Marcus" recipe, which was untrue but made the rounds over and over.

It is on the Hilton website:

https://newsroom.hilton.com/static-doubletree-reveals-cookie-recipe.htm

That would be real, then. :) Especially since it's a press release. Unless it was an April Fool's prank, but I don't think Hilton would be into that. :)

I agree some lemon juice might make for a higher rising and more tender result.

Those teeny tiny amounts could be a typo or miscalculation too. The original likely has much much larger amounts of ingredients, I'm guessing. The amounts in that seem very similar to one for Tollhouse cookies I found in my Betty Crocker cooky cookbook - I didn't like it though - result was too dense and floury - not the same amounts as the classic one on the Nestle's pkg of chips.

And that seems like an enormous amount of choc. chips...

I haven't made a chocolate chip cookie in decades. Recently watched this video and now I can't wait to find some demerara sugar.