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The World's Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Lots of people who have tried these cookies have said that they were the best they'd ever had. These chocolate chip cookies are soft and chewy with a little bit of crispiness at the edges and a not-too-sweet flavor. I don't know if they're the best in the world, but they're pretty darn good, and if you follow this recipe and my simple tips and tricks you can decide for yourself.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Ingredients

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  • ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 egg
  • 2¾ cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 12 oz. bag semisweet chocolate chips
Makes about 5 dozen.
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TIP: Use extra flour

This recipe uses a little extra flour to give the cookies that rounded, lumpy look. Try this trick with any other cookie recipes you have that taste good but turn out flatter than you'd like.

The extra flour also helps to give the dough a slightly salty, less sweet flavor that goes great with the chocolate chips.

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Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

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  1. Preheat oven to 375°
  2. Mix the sugars, butter, vanilla, and egg until well blended and creamy.
  3. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt together. (You can do it right on top of the wet ingredients, mixing the soda and salt into the flour a little with a dry spoon before mixing the flour into the wet ingredients.)
  4. Stir wet and dry ingredients together until well blended. The dough is very dry and stiff, and it may seem as though it is too dry to combine, but it will come together.
  5. Stir in chocolate chips.
  6. Put rounded spoonfuls of dough on a cool cookie sheet a few inches apart.
  7. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until edges are just beginning to brown. For best results, use one cookie sheet at a time in the center of the oven.
  8. Cool 2 to 3 minutes on the cookie sheet and then transfer cookies to a cooling rack.

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Are these the world's best chocolate chip cookies, or what?

If you tried the recipe, give us your verdict.

Lots of people have commented in the guestbook below with their opinions on this recipe, with responses ranging from "These really are THE WORLD'S BEST." to "We ended up throwing them all out." (!) So, what do you think?

Is this the World's Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe?

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YES! There are no yummier cookies than these.

Annette says:

Just made these on Saturday. I think they make very preety & delicious cookies. I would make them again if baking Chocolate Chip cookies. But very important--when baking if you like chewy cookies bake on the shorter time should have light browning on the edges and watch middle. Pull them out and and keep on pan as recipe says. Otherwise they will be drier than you would like. Dough is more like Peanut butter cookie dough in consistancy. Better than tollhouse recipe in my opinion. Dough is great for adding extras get creative, coconut, toffee pcs, dark chocolate mixed with milk, candy bits. Enjoy!!

Posted February 02, 2012

Mom says:

The cookie batter did seem very dry so we only used 2 1/2 cups flour and added bit of milk to moisten (bout 1/4 cup). Baked for 9 mins and they looked great and tasted very yummy too! Chewy and moist. Just how my son loves them!

Posted January 23, 2012

Josh says:

They are very good cookies!

Posted January 23, 2012

smyrna says:

these cookies are the best in the world

Posted December 26, 2011

Yvonne says:

They are very good.

Posted December 16, 2011

NO! These cookies are inedible!

giselle says:

These cookies were not good at all and they were way too spongyy and they did not even turn brown

Posted January 14, 2012

Madee says:

I've ate bark tastier then this

Posted October 28, 2011

CuteNewt says:

I have never made them, I used to help my mom with the same recipe. Yeah, they are really good. I still have the recipe. I don't bake them, but my mom made them and they are the best, I have ever tried!

Posted October 20, 2011

you don`t know me says:

I haven`t tried them yet but just looking at them makes my mouth water. YUUUUUUUUUMMY!

Posted September 02, 2011

Disappointed.com says:

This was a very badly measured recipe. Did not work at all. Devastated as I was looking forward to some yummy cookies and this just didn't deliver. Waste of supplies.

Posted July 08, 2011

 
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TIP: Cool the cookie sheet

The World's Best Chocolate Chip Cookie RecipeFor lumpy, rounded cookies that are not too flat or too browned, allow the cookie sheet to cool completely between batches. If the cookies are still coming out too flat, try chilling the dough for a few minutes in the refrigerator.

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The Betty Crocker Cookbook

Betty Crocker Cookbook chocolate chip cookie recipeThis recipe started with a chocolate chip cookie recipe from the Betty Crocker Cookbook. I have made some adjustments and figured out some tricks to get consistently good results. I don't use the original Betty Crocker recipe anymore for chocolate chip cookies, but I do use the book for lots of other dishes and cooking basics.

TIP: Put bread in the cookie jar

To keep the cookies soft and chewy longer, put a piece of bread in the container you are storing them in. You can use any kind of bread, and it will become stale and dried out in a day or so, but the cookies will stay soft. If the bread gets completely dried out before the cookies are gone, you can replace the bread or pour a glass of milk and eat more cookies!

The bread trick even works to bring past-their-prime cookies back around.

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