Chocolate Chip Cookies (2024)

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy on the inside and a little crisp on the outside. This cookie recipe will become your new favorite; they are fast and easy to make – you don’t even need a mixer!

Looking for more cookie recipes? Try my Soft Sugar Cookies, Mrs. Fields Oatmeal Cookies, or Chocolate Mint Cookies!

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What makes them perfect:

  • Soft and chewy: The melted butter, extra egg yolk and brown sugar help these cookies stay soft and chewy for days!
  • EASY: This only takes minutes to prep, and you don’t even need a mixer!

How to make Chocolate Chip Cookies:

Melt butter. Melt the butter for about 45 seconds in the microwave. You want it mostly, but not completely melted. Stir with a spoon until it’s completely melted and allow the butter to cool completely.

Mix wet ingredients.Add brown sugar and granulated sugar to a mixing bowl. Mix in the melted butter, until smooth. Add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla and mix until combined.

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Mix dry ingredients: Flour, baking soda and salt in a large bowl.

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Combine. Stir together wet and dry ingredients, being careful not to over-mix the batter. Stir in chocolate chips. (If your cookie batter is beaten too much, the cookies will be more dense).

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Bake. Scoop the cookie dough and place it on a prepared baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 8-14 minutes (depending on their size) or until they’ve lost their sheen on top and are just set. The cookies continue to cook and will harden as they cool on the baking sheet so don’t over-bake them.

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Tips for the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies:

  • Use melted butter. Unlike most cookie recipes, these chocolate chip cookies are made with melted butter, instead of softened or room temperature butter, which makes them extra chewy (and the extra egg yolk helps make them thick, instead of flat).
  • Add an extra egg yolk. Eggs also help with that chewy texture, but rather than using a whole extra egg, this cookie recipe calls for one extra egg yolk. This helps with the thick and chewy texture and helps the chocolate chip cookies to stay soft for days longer than regular cookies.
  • More brown sugar than granulated sugar. Moisture content in cookies helps to make them chewy, and that is why this recipe contains more brown sugar than granulated white sugar. Brown sugar has molasses in it, making the sugar more moist, which will lead to a chewier chocolate chip cookie.

Recipe Variations:

  • Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies: Check out my Mrs. Field’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies!
  • Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies: Substitute gluten free flour.

Make Ahead and Freezing Instructions:

To Make Ahead: The cookie dough can be made 1-3 days ahead, stored in the refrigerator. Baked cookies are best enjoyed the same day, or frozen if enjoying another day.

To Freeze: Scoop cookie dough on a baking sheet and freeze for 30 minutes. Transfer cookie dough to freezer safe container or bag. Thaw before baking dough. Baked cookies can be frozen after cooling completely. Freeze in an air-tight freezer safe container or bag for up to 3 months.

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy on the inside and a little crisp on the outside. This cookie recipe will become your new favorite

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Prep 15 minutes mins

Cook 12 minutes mins

Total 27 minutes mins

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Instructions

  • Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silpat baking mat.

  • Melt the butter for about 45 seconds in the microwave, until it’s almost completely melted. Remove and stir it, allowing any remaining butter to melt. Allow the butter to cool until it’s almost room temperature, but still a liquid.

  • Add melted butter and both sugars to a mixing bowl and mix until well combined. Add the egg, egg yolk, and vanilla and stir combined.

  • In a medium bowl mix together flour, salt, and baking soda.

  • Stir the dry ingredients into the bowl with the wet ingredients and begin to mix. Add chocolate chips, stirring just until combined. The dough will be soft. You can refrigerate it at this point for 30 minutes or up to 2 days (or freeze for longer).

  • Scoop dough into balls and place on a cookie sheet. Bake for 8-14 minutes (depending on size) or until set on top. Cool for 10-15 minutes on a baking sheet before moving to a wire cooling rack.

Notes

To Make Ahead: The cookie dough can be made 1-3 days ahead, stored in the refrigerator. Baked cookies are best enjoyed the same day, or frozen if enjoying another day.

To Freeze: Scoop cookie dough on a baking sheet and freeze for 30 minutes. Transfer cookie dough to freezer safe container or bag. Thaw before baking dough. Baked cookies can be frozen after cooling completely. Freeze in an air-tight freezer safe container or bag for up to 3 months.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies: Check out my Mrs. Field’s Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies: Substitute gluten-free flour.

Nutrition

Calories: 208kcalCarbohydrates: 27gProtein: 2gFat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gCholesterol: 23mgSodium: 128mgPotassium: 91mgFiber: 1gSugar: 17gVitamin A: 190IUCalcium: 19mgIron: 1.3mg

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Recipe adapted from Cooks Illustrated.

I originally shared this recipe Feb. 2015. Updated May 2018 and September 2021.

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FAQs

Is chocolate chip cookie a hom*ogeneous or heterogeneous mixture? ›

A chocolate chip cookie is an example of a heterogeneous mixture because it is made up of different materials that can be easily distinguished. In chocolate chip cookies, the mixture is not evenly distributed. Taking multiple samples of the same mass or volume will result in differing composition of its components.

What will Wendy think about the chocolate in cookie club's cookies choose 1 answer? ›

Conclusion: Since Wendy prefers 7 chocolate chips per cookie and Cookie Club provides approximately 6.67 chocolate chips per cookie, Cookie Club's cookies have less chocolate than Wendy's preference.

Is a chocolate chip cookie a colloid or suspension? ›

Moreover, sometimes you'll get an area that has a lot of chocolate, and sometimes an area with almost no chocolate. The chocolate is not uniformly mixed with the dough. These all indicate that a chocolate chip cookie is a heterogeneous mixture.

Are cookies heterogeneous or hom*ogeneous? ›

Since heterogeneous mixtures are not uniform in their composition, a chocolate cookie is a great example.

What mixture is hom*ogeneous? ›

hom*ogeneous mixtures are uniform in structure or composition. For example, if you mix table salt into water, this mixture is hom*ogeneous because the salt completely dissolves into the water, meaning that the salt particles are evenly distributed throughout the water.

What was the first name of the chocolate chip cookie? ›

So I came up with Toll House cookie." She added chopped up bits from a Nestlé semi-sweet chocolate bar into a cookie. The original recipe in Toll House Tried and True Recipes is called "Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies".

Who made the chocolate chip cookies? ›

Believe it or not, everyone's favorite chocolate chip cookie is now over 80 years old! The original recipe was created in the late 1930s by Ruth Wakefield who famously ran the Toll House restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts.

Does Chips Ahoy have a slogan? ›

Chips Ahoy! "Crazy with chips!" "There's a lotta joy in Chips Ahoy!"

What personality is cookie? ›

Overall, Cookie's ESFP personality type is reflected in his friendly, outgoing, and vivacious persona. His ability to live in the moment and adapt to change makes him a valuable member of any team, but his tendency towards impulsive behavior can sometimes result in him making decisions that are not well thought out.

What is in Wendys chocolate chip cookies? ›

Chocolate Chunk Cookie: Enriched Bleached Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Sugar, Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks (Sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor), Palm Oil, Eggs, Contains 2% or Less of: Molasses, Butter ...

Is Kooky cookie a boy or a girl? ›

Kooky Cookie is a pink cookie with blue shoes. She has yellow chocolate chips. There is a bite on the top right. Her variant is a chocolate chip cookie with green shoes (pink in her cartoon artwork).

Is vanilla ice cream a colloid? ›

Ice cream is a complex food colloid in that the mix emulsion is subsequently foamed, creating a dispersed phase of air bubbles, and is frozen, forming another dispersed phase of ice crystals. Air bubbles and ice crystals are usually in the range of 20 – 50 micrometers in size.

Is milk chocolate a colloid? ›

Chocolate is a colloid – solid cacao bean particles are dispersed throughout the solid cocoa butter. It is categorized as a solid dispersion because the cocoa bean particles are the solid dispersed phase suspended in the cacao butter, the solid dispersing medium.

Is hot chocolate a colloid? ›

A hot chocolate wouldn't be a hot chocolate without cocoa powder. Mixing this in with your milk forms a colloid – a mixture in which solid particles are suspended within a fluid.

Is chocolate a hom*ogeneous or a heterogeneous mixture? ›

hom*ogeneous mixture. Chocolate is made up of cocoa powder, cocoa butter, sweetener, and some other substances that are mixed with each other in an indefinite ratio. So, chocolate is not a pure substance but is a hom*ogenous mixture (it has a uniform composition).

Is a chocolate chip cookie a heterogeneous mixture True False? ›

If the composition of a material is not completely uniform, then it is heterogeneous (e.g., chocolate chip cookie dough, blue cheese, and dirt).

Is a chocolate chip cookie a compound or mixture? ›

A chocolate chip cookie is a good example of a heterogeneous mixture. A mixture is a physical combination of two or more different pieces of matter. Chocolate chip cookies are made with sugar, chocolate chips, butter, eggs, milk four, baking soda and salt.

Is chocolate chip cookie dough an element compound hom*ogeneous or heterogeneous? ›

Chocolate chip cookie dough is classified as a heterogeneous mixture because the different components, such as chocolate chips and flour, can be visually distinguished and are not chemically bonded together (4).

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