Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

I only use the freshest ingredients in my chocolate chip cookie recipe. I use pure cane sugars, real butter, unbleached flour and pure vanilla extract. Nestle Semi-Sweet Morsels tend to have the best chocolate flavor, in my opinion. All of these make a huge difference in the taste of your cookies.

It is important to not use melted butter or butter that has been softened too long. The colder you can keep it and still blend in the other ingredients the better. Follow this tip and you will have thicker, softer, moister cookies.

I get the best results when I use heavier metal cookie sheets, not aluminum. My cookies tend to turn out thin and chewy when I use aluminum or glass. Save the aluminum for cakes.

Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Cookies:

1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened, but not room temperature (when you pinch it with thumb and index finger and it barely makes an indentation)
3/4 cup pure cane granulated sugar
3/4 cup pure cane packed brown sugar
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 large eggs
2 1/4 cup unbleached all purpose flour
2 cups (12 oz) Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels

Directions for Chocolate Chip Cookies:
Place oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
In a stand mixer, beat butter until creamy (do not over beat), add granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla.
Continue to beat until fully combined.

Add baking soda and salt, mix well. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour, evenly stir in chocolate morsels.

Drop by large soup spoon, (make as round as possible, makes about a 1 1/2 inch ball) onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake in preheated oven for 10-13 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from oven and let stand for 2-3 minutes: remove to wire racks to cool.

Makes about 1 1/2 dozen large cookies.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars:
Prepare dough the same as above, then spread into a greased 13x9 inch pan. Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean when inserted onto the center of the cookie bar. Cool pan on wire rack. Cut in to bars of desired size.

Here are some simply changes you can make to your chocolate chip cookies to make them even more exciting and delicious; instead of adding 1 bag (2 cups) of Nestles Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, add:

• One bag (2 cups) of mini chocolate chips along with 1/2 bag (1 cup) of the regular chocolate morsels, this makes an extra chocolaty cookie.


• For the butterscotch or peanut butter lover in the family, 1/2 bag (1 cup) of butterscotch or peanut butter chips and 1/2 bag (1 cup) of regular chocolate morsels.


• A bag of chopped Andes mints, these were a big hit for the holidays.


• Almost any chewy candy bar such as: Snickers, Milky Way, Reese Cups, or 3 Musketeers are also great additions.


• Of course the usual M&M's, Peanut M&M's Candies or Reese's Pieces are always well received.


• White chocolate chips and macadamia nuts


• Cranberries, raisins, or other dried fruit and walnuts or pecans.

The options are unlimited, just be sure to keep the addition to about 2 cups.