It doesn’t take much prodding to get me to make cookies with my kids. Usually, “Mom, can we have cookies?” is good enough for me! Still, a cookie recipe that’s designed to be extra easy to whip up?

Baker and blogger Sarah Kieffer's "pan-banging chocolate chip cookies" have made the Instagram rounds for a while now, and I had to know first-hand if the hype for these high-maintenance cookies was ...