Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
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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, these Best-Ever White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies, these Ultimate Triple Chocolate Cookies, these Best-Ever White Chocolate Cranberry Cookies and these Triple Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies! 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 more 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! Who’s ready for some cookie love?
Reasons We Love OUR Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Easy to make and comforting! We’re talking chocolate and baked cookies with chocolate chips 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!
easily to make these gluten free and healthier! 
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 (If you use salted butter, omit salt in recipe)
- granulated sugar
- brown sugar
- eggs
- vanilla extract
- all-purpose flour or gluten free 1 to 1 flour
- baking soda
- salt
- chocolate chips of choice, I used semisweet chocolate chips, but you could use chocolate chunks, dark chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, or white chocolate chips
or 
Possible Add-ins: M&M’s
, Reese cups
, candy bar bits, nuts of choice, dried cranberries
, walnuts, pecans, coconut, caramel bits, flaky sea salt on top
How to Make Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
- First, preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
- In a large bowl, using a hand or stand mixer, beat cubes of cold butter with sugars. Beat 2 to 3 minutes until butter is mixed in well.
- Add eggs and vanilla extract. Continue mixing to combine.
- Add in your dry ingredients of flour, baking soda and salt. Dough should be thick and mixed together with no flour streaks.
- Mix in chocolate chips to make your chocolate chip cookie dough.
- Using ice cream or large cookie scoop, (¼ cup or 4 tablespoons worth) and scoop up cookie dough balls 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. Finally, carefully transfer them to a cooling wire rack to finish cooling.
, beat cubes of cold butter with sugars. Beat 2 to 3 minutes until butter is mixed in well.
, (¼ cup or 4 tablespoons worth) and scoop up cookie dough balls and place at least 2 inches apart on lined pan. Pro Tip: 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 in your freezer for up to 3 months, either raw cookie dough or baked, so you always have that option!
One bite of our Best-Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies and you’ll see why these are so decadent and full of semi-sweet chocolate chips! 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
Ingredients
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.
Thank you Valentina!! They are pretty amazing!
I’m always looking for new choc chip cookies to try, and these look amazing. They look perfect! 🙂 ~Valentina
I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you so much for sharing that with us!
These cookies are fabulous. All my friends thought they were the best chocolatCoe chip cookies. I used Country Crock plant butter & eggs straight from the fridge. These cookies turned out beautifully and tasted fantastic.
Thank you for the great recipe.
Agree! Thank you so much!
These sound amazing!! Chocolate chip cookies are the best!
Awww! Thank you so much Michelle!!
Wow, what a stack of cookies — the texture looks so perfect Kim!