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.
Chewy or crispy?
Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Ingredients
- 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
Printable recipe
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.
Cookie Stuff from Amazon
Chicago Metallic Commercial Cookie/Jelly Roll Pans, Set of 2
You don't need a nonstick surface for these cookies, and I prefer an uncoated pan. The darker nonstick surface on some pans makes the cookies brown too quickly on the bottom.
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Wilton Excelle Elite 3-Tier Cooling Rack
I like to use a stackable set of cooling racks like this so the racks don't take over the kitchen, and there is plenty of space to let the cookies cool completely before transferring them to a plate or container.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- Preheat oven to 375°
- Mix the sugars, butter, vanilla, and egg until well blended and creamy.
- 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.)
- 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.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Put rounded spoonfuls of dough on a cool cookie sheet a few inches apart.
- 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.
- Cool 2 to 3 minutes on the cookie sheet and then transfer cookies to a cooling rack.
Printable recipe
TIP: Cool the cookie sheet
For 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.
Are you a chocolate chip cookie purist?
The Betty Crocker Cookbook
This 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.
Are you drooling yet?
BEST COOKIES EVER!!!! I love all tips before my cookies didn't taste good but now they are amazing.
Posted July 21, 2008
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Janet21
Great lens! I have lensrolled it to my Novelty Cookie Jars lens. :) Posted May 24, 2008 |
I love this recipe! But don't be fooled! The only change this cook made was to add a bit more flour. Otherwise it is verbatum Betty Crocker cookbook! There is no shame in that, as it's a great recipe!
Posted March 06, 2008
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mulberry
I am a chocolate chip cookie NUT. I do the extra flour thing. (I've even increased the baking soda in a pinch) Anything for a "fluffier" cookie! Great lens! Posted February 15, 2008 |
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newmania
These are by far the best cookies I have ever had. EVERYONE I know that has tried them has agreed. I have made them severals times and they are always delicious. The only problem I have is that there is a lot of mixing involved, but it is well worth it. Posted November 21, 2007 |
