There are few things better than Chocolate Chip Cookies warm from the oven. This recipe has been carefully crafted to make cookies that are perfectly soft and perfectly chewy.
You’ll never need another chocolate chip cookie recipe.
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A Cookie Classic
As much as we love a great oatmeal cookie, there’s really nothing like a Chocolate Chip Cookie. Perfectly Soft. Perfectly sweet. Perfectly Chewy. Perfectly Perfect.
How to Make Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Room temperature eggs: If you use cold eggs it can shock the butter you just melted and cause some of it to re-solidify. This also keeps your ingredients from mixing as well as they should.
- How to Measure Flour: The best way to measure flour for this recipe is to gently spoon it into a measuring cup and use a straight edge to remove the excess. Using a measuring cup to scoop up the flour — packs it in and can cause to overmeasure.)
- Chill Time: This recipe requires a small chill time to keep the cookies from spreading too much — a small price to pay for perfect chocolate chip cookies!
- Do not overbake: Cookies should be baked until they are just browned on the edges. They should be very slightly undercooked in the middle.
Ingredients
- Flour – Use all purpose flour in this recipe. be sure to measure it by spooning it into the measuring cup and leveling it. Do not scoop the flour with the measuring cup or it will pack too much in the cup causing a dry dough.
- Melted butter – Melted butter makes cookies chewier (and gives them a much better flavor, as the melted butter is in every morsel of the cookie!). Be sure to cool after melting, otherwise it’ll melt your sugar and your dough will be too runny to use.
- Sugar – This recipe contains both brown and white sugar. Brown sugar has more moisture which makes for softer, chewier cookies so we add a higher ratio of brown sugar for great texture.
- Cornstarch – Cornstarch (or cornflour if you’re in the UK) makes these chocolate chip cookies extra chewy and soft and helps give the cookies a little lift that we lose by melting the butter.
- Chocolate Chips – We prefer semi-sweet in these cookies but you can sub in your favorites or use a mixture of either dark or milk chocolate or even chocolate chunks!
To Freeze Cookie Dough
Like most cookie doughs, this dough can be frozen and baked at a later date. Simply scoop onto a parchment-lined pan and freeze until solid. Once frozen, remove from the cookie sheet and place in a freezer bag.
To Bake from Frozen
Defrost for an hour or two in the fridge and bake as directed. If the dough is very cold, you may need to add a minute or two of cook time.
To Avoid Flat Cookies
If your cookies come out too flat, it’s likely the flour was under-measured. Too thick, there’s too much flour.
Using cups and teaspoons is great and convenient, but it’s extremely easy to over or under-measure some of your ingredients, particularly the flour.
So those are our favorite tips for soft, chewy, perfect chocolate chip cookies.
More Favorite Cookie Recipes
- “Worst Ever” Chocolate Chip Cookies by Sugar Spun Run! (Must try!)
- Easy Triple Chocolate Cookies – Chocolate lover’s dream.
- Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
- Chocolate Cake Mix Cookies – 3 ingredient shortcut recipe
- Easy Sugar Cookies – Classic perfection
- Cheesecake Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup melted unsalted butter cooled at least 10 minutes, 226g
- 1 ¼ cup brown sugar packed, 250g
- ½ cup granulated sugar 100g
- 1 large egg room temperature preferred
- 1 egg yolk room temperature preferred
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour 350g
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips plus additional for tops, optional 300g + additional
Instructions
- Combine melted butter and sugars in a large bowl. Stir very well.
- Add egg and egg yolk, stir well. Stir in vanilla extract. Set aside.
- In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt.
- Gradually add flour mixture to wet ingredients -- stir well so that all the flour is absorbed. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Place dough in refrigerator and chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350°F (177°C) and prepare cookie sheets by lining with parchment paper.
- Scoop dough by rounded 1 ½ tablespoon onto prepared cookie sheets, placing at least 2" apart.
- Bake for 11 minutes -- cookies may still seem slightly soft in the centers, that is OK, they will cook completely on the cookie sheets. Don't over-bake or your cookies will be too hard.
- If desired, gently press additional chocolate chips into the tops of the warm cookies.
- Allow to cool completely on cookie sheets.
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Notes
- Room temperature eggs: If you use cold eggs it can shock the butter you just melted and cause some of it to re-solidify. This also keeps your ingredients from mixing as well as they should.
- How to Measure Flour: The best way to measure flour for this recipe is to gently spoon it into a measuring cup and use a straight edge to remove the excess. Using a measuring cup to scoop up the flour -- packs it in and can cause to overmeasure.)
- Chill Time: This recipe requires a small chill time to keep the cookies from spreading too much -- a small price to pay for perfect chocolate chip cookies!
- Do not overbake: Cookies should be baked until they are just browned on the edges. They should be very slightly undercooked in the middle.
Nutrition Information
Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.
Course Dessert
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I just made a batch this morning as an apology treat to my husband because of a silly little reason… we both were overworked and passed out after work and he snapped this morning at me because I forgot to set the alarm. To be fair, we both did. Anyway, they turned out to be perfectly delicious and my husband probably devoured at least a dozen. Awesome recipe! It’s a keeper for the next time he decides to bite my head off. He can bite one of these yummy cookies instead. :D
Thanks for the great recipe. Baked these before, absolutely fantastic. Looking foward to baking a bunch for the holidays. Followed this recipe to a t. They came out perfect even at 8000′ where I live.
This recipe was absolutely fabulous. The cookies stayed soft for 2 days AFTER being baked. The melted butter made a huge difference. This cookie will now be my staple for every single party and event.
This is the best chocolate cookie recipe…EVER…and I followed it to the “t”.
My husband couldn’t…wouldn’t stay out of them and I had a hard time limiting myself to 3…then I ate one more right before bed. :)
I will be following you on Pinterest and trying more of your recipes.
Merry Christmas!!
I am so glad that you enjoyed this recipe! Merry Christmas to you Tammy!
If I double this recipe, can I add three eggs instead of two eggs and two egg yolks?
I’ve only made this recipe as written so I can’t say for sure.
I believe you could, but adding two eggs and two egg yolks probably makes the cookie taste richer and better.
Great recipe!! I’m not a cookie baker, I enjoy cakes. I will be trying and now following more of your recipes. Thank you for being thorough in your directions and being capable of explaining why you are doing certain steps. My teen boys raved about “my” chocolate chip cookies. I didn’t just bake cookies this time. I was invited to enjoy them with a cup of hot chocolate as well!! This will definitely be the go to recipe for chocolate chip cookies in my kitchen. Thank you and keep baking!
I am so glad your family enjoyed this recipe! Thank you for your kind words and happy baking!
LOVED THEMMMM!!!!!
I made chocolate chip cookies for the first time and loved them!
I am so glad you liked this recipe Nico! Happy Baking!
Do I need to change any of the other ingredients if I add pecans?
I think these would work just fine with the addition of pecans.
Wow, this is the absolute best chocolate chip cookie recipe I’ve ever made!
Thank you so much for it~
Hey I tried out this recipe.worked really well except I’d make them a lil less sweeter next time. The texture was really great . Only wanted to know what according to you is the weight of these 45 cookies . Like in kg ?
I’m glad you enjoyed them. I haven’t weighed these cookies so I can’t say for sure.
My 9 year old son and I made these cookies as a father son activity. As my son put it, “we rocked it”. The first batch was gone in less than a day! We look forward to using this recipe again and preparing other delicious treats.
How fun, my kids used to love baking with me when they were younger too! Yay for “rockin’ it” on your first batch, so glad you enjoyed them! :)
I’m fairly new to baking but you wouldn’t know it after trying these cookies. Delicious!
The recipe calls for unsalted butter and I don’t have any. Can I use salted butter and cut back on the salt? Thank you, for posting such delicious recipes!!!
Sure you can. They may have a little bit more salt than usual but should still be delicious!
Thanks for the tips on the chocolate chip cookies. Sounds the the perfect cookie. Going to make them now!
Followed recipe to a T. I use organic ingredients so the sugar is a little coarser than the regular stuff, which made the cookie so delicious. And I assumed you meant to hand mix everything based on the way the directions were written. This plus all the suggestions you mentioned at the beginning about the butter and eggs etc. made this the BEST chocolate chip cookie I have ever tasted. It is just literally perfect!
Confession…I’ve never baked cookies from scratch. This recipe was my first attempt. The recipe was easy to follow and the cookies turned out fantastically! My family was hesitant to try them, but then ate through half of them in an hour! So this recipe is now in my Christmas Cookie “keepers” list as I try to start a new tradition!
Hi! :) I’m using halogen oven. Is the temperature for baking this cookie just the same? Thanks!
I love your blog it’s soo cute!
Thanks Elle! I’m not familiar with a halogen oven so I would suggest consulting your user manual.
Made the cookies and LOVE them! Froze about half of the dough—how would you recommend baking the frozen dough? Add more cook time? Should I let thaw? Thanks!
Thought I’d try a new cookie recipe and was not disappointed in the least! The cookies are amazing and the perfect texture! Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I will definitely be using it again in the near future.
So glad you loved them!
I think I found my new favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe
So glad you loved it!