Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

Our newest Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe! Get ready to devour the best soft, chewy & thick Chocolate Chip Cookies warm and melty right out of the oven!  This recipe will soon become your favorite go-to cookies when you want a recipe for chocolate chip cookies that are quick and easy to make!

You may love this CopyCat Crumbl Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe too!  Can we ever have enough chocolate chip cookie recipes?

What I love about this recipe is, NO CHILL time involved and deliciously baked perfect every time! We've been missing Chocolate Chip Cookies lately, have you?

Some of our favorites include our Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, our Best Ever Samoa Chocolate Chip Cookies and our Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies! Pure Nirvana!

This is a classic tried and true chocolate chip cookie recipe that you will make again and again!

Reasons We Love OUR Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies

• Easy to make and comforting!  We're talking chocolate and cookies here!
• Butter and eggs DO NOT have to come to room temperature.  No pussyfooting around here!
• We bake these cookies at 400 degrees Fahrenheit. It's the perfect temperature to yield a puffier, thicker bakery style cookie with a crunchy exterior and delightfully soft center.  How's that for classic chocolate chip cookies?
• Gluten free recipe Option!  Use gluten free flour easily to make these gluten free and healthier!  
• Get the milk ready, these babies are ready to dunk!  This recipe for chocolate chip cookies is the best!
• Melts in your mouth with every bite.
• Addictive!

Ingredients You Need for Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

• cold unsalted butter - cut butter into cubes while it's cold, no need to soften or come to room temperature
• granulated sugar
• brown sugar
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour or gluten free 1 to 1 flour 
• baking soda
• salt
• chocolate chips of choice

Possible Add-ins:  M&M's, Reese cups, candy bar bits, nuts of choice, dried cranberries, coconut, caramel bits

How to Make Cookies

1. First, preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line 2 baking pans with parchment paper.
2. Using a mixer, beat cubes of cold butter with sugars. Beat 2 to 3 minutes until butter is mixed in well.
3. Add eggs and vanilla extract. Continue mixing to combine.
4. Add in flour, baking soda and salt. Dough should be thick and mixed together with no flour streaks
5. Mix in chocolate chips.
6. Using ice cream or large cookie scoop, (¼ cup or 4 tablespoons worth) and scoop dough and place at least 2 inches apart on lined pan.  
7. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until cookie edges are lightly golden and the middles are set.  Do not over bake these cookies. Cookies will firm up slightly while cooking.
8. Remove from oven. Allow cookies to cool on pan for 10 minutes. Finally, carefully transfer them to a cooling rack to finish cooling.

Can make cookies smaller, just adjust time for less baking time.

How to Store Cookies

• Store cookies in an airtight container for up to 4 days in an airtight container.  It probably won't happen, but at least you know!
• Can't be trusted with a full batch of these cookies?  Make a small batch and halve the recipe!   Of course, these freeze well, so you always have that option!

One bite of our Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies and you'll see why these are so decadent, full of chocolate flavor and cookie goodness!  Give these a try today because we know you are craving the best recipe for chocolate chip cookies!

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Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Kim Lange

Our newest Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe! Get ready to devour the best soft, chewy & thick Chocolate Chip Cookies warm and melty right out of the oven! 

4.84 from 12 votes

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Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 13 minutes mins

Course Dessert

Servings 18 Large Cookies

Calories

Ingredients

  

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Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

• 1 cup unsalted butter cold & cut into small cubes
• ½ cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup light brown sugar packed
• 2 eggs
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 ½ cups all purpose flour or gluten free 1 to 1 flour for gluten free cookies
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups chocolate chips of choice

Instructions

 

Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

• First, preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line 2 baking pans with parchment paper.
• Using a mixer, beat cubes of cold butter with sugars for 2 to 3 minutes until butter is mixed in well.
• Add eggs and vanilla extract. Continue mixing to combine.
• Add in flour, baking soda and salt. Dough should be thick and mixed together with no flour streaks
• Mix in chocolate chips.
• Using ice cream or large cookie scoop, (¼ cup or 4 tablespoons worth) and scoop dough and place at least 2 inches apart on lined pan.
• Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until cookie edges are lightly golden and the middles are set. Do not over bake these cookies. Cookies will firm up slightly while cooking.
• Remove from oven. Allow cookies to cool on pan for 10 minutes. Carefully transfer them to a cooling rack to finish cooling.
• Can make cookies smaller, just adjust time for less baking time.

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