Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
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These are seriously, the most sublime, Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies! Hands down, the best chocolate chip cookie recipe for ‘perfect’ chocolate chip cookies, that are completely buttery, chewy, thick & chocked full of semi-sweet chocolate chips!!
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So, now I have another chocolate chip cookie recipe that I want to share with you and this is definitely another favorite, best-loved chewy chocolate chip cookie I could not resist sharing! We can never have enough cookie recipes can we?? Nope!!
These are the perfect chocolate chip cookie lover’s dream! The recipe is simple and it’s probably my all-time favorite chocolate chip recipe of all time. If you try them, you might decide this is your go-to chocolate chip cookie too! Let me know!
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Say goodbye to burnt cookies and hello to the perfect chocolate chip cookies! If your recipe isn’t quite up to snuff, you could be missing out on the blissful taste of chocolaty goodness like you would expect in chocolate chip cookies!
Here, you’ll learn about essential ingredients and top baking tips for creating mouth-watering cookies every single time. Plus, you’ll get a tried and true recipe that guarantees gooey, sweet, and delicious cookies every time. Watch the video for more!
Just a Few Pointers Before You Start Your Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Baking Journey!
- Follow the directions to a ‘T’. I read the comments on Williams Sonoma Taste and some of the issues were flat cookies and too many chocolate chips, so I did decrease the chocolate chips 1/4 cup for this recipe, which are still chocked full of chocolate chips. Love Ghirardelli Chocolate Chips. 🙂
- To avoid ugly, flat cookies, be sure your butter is room temperature (not melted or even softened), and use a cooler dough vs. warm dough. Just pop it in the refrigerator a bit before baking if it feels warm. I like to scoop all the dough and place them all on a cookie sheet and put them in the fridge for 10-15 minutes for extra thick cookies! That’s called flash-freezing and I love using this method!
- Measure flour correctly! Fluff up the flour in the bag or canister. In order to make sure you’re not scooping up packed flour, you should fluff it up with a spoon or fork before you measure it. Spoon the flour into the measuring cup. Gently pile it in until it forms a heap above the rim of the measuring cup. Then, scrape a knife across the top of the measuring cup to level the flour. This way, you’ll get rid of excess flour on top of the cup without packing down the flour inside. Perfect measuring!
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Tips: If you’re in chocoholic mode, go the full 2 1/4 cups of chocolate chips as the recipe calls out. If you want to tone down the chocolate chips, just use a lesser amount to your liking. 1 1/2 cups is good for those that want chocolate flavor, but not chocolate overload. 🙂
- For more cookie tips go here.
Ingredients You Need for Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
Best-Ever Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- all-purpose flour
- baking soda
- salt
- unsalted butter, room temperature or cool
- brown sugar
- granulated sugar
- egg
- vanilla extract
- semisweet chocolate chips or chocolate chunks
Instructions How to Make the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line 2 baking sheets. with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray. (To get best results, use parchment paper to line baking sheets)
- In a medium bowl, sift the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda and salt together or you can whisk together as well.
- In another large bowl, using an electric mixer or bowl of a stand mixer using paddle attachment at medium speed, beat together the butter, and sugars until smooth and mixed together well.
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix on low speed until mixed in.
- Gradually add the flour mixture and mix in until just incorporated. Do not keep mixing – do not overmix.
- Add chocolate chips and stir with a wooden spoon, again no overmixing, just until incorporated.
- Chill dough if dough is warm. This will keep them from spreading.
- Using a small or large ice cream scoop or cookie scoop or heaping tablespoon, drop the chocolate chip cookie dough onto the prepared baking sheets, 6 to 8 per pan, depending on size you are making. If you like rolling cookie dough balls, you can do that as well, just don’t overwork the dough.
- Bake the cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until the bottoms and edges are lightly browned and the tops feel firm when lightly touched,
- Small cookies bake 8-10 minutes. Large cookies bake 10-13 minutes. Feel free to add extra chocolate chips to the tops, they’ll just melt into the cookies.
- Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer the cookies to wire rack (s) to cool completely.
- Makes 18 -30 cookies depending on size.
More Variations
- Add some walnuts, pecans, raisins, dried fruits like cherries or cranberries, flaky sea salt or some m&m’s for some texture or crunch to your cookies!
- Change out the chocolate chips for milk chocolate chips or white chocolate chips or your favorite chopped chocolate bar!
- Store chewy chocolate chip cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for 3-4 days.
Freezing Cookies
- Freeze baked cookies in an airtight container or zip-top bag for up to 30 days in the freezer and thaw at room temperature.
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Look at all that gorgeous melty chocolate!! Aren’t you addicted to these gorgeous beauties? For a vegan version of this cookie try our ‘Perfect’ Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies @ Daily Vegan Meal.
And now…Are you ready for some chewy ‘Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies’ that taste out of this world? Let’s rock out this recipe! Check out the video attached!
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Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour see notes below
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter see notes below, room temperature
- ½ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups semisweet chocolate chips I used Ghiradelli semi-sweet. Use less chocolate chips if you want more cookie and not as much chocolate such as 1 1/4 cups to 1 1/2 cups. (Can also use chocolate chunks)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or spray with non-stick spray.. (To get best results, use parchment paper)
- In a medium bowl, sift the dry ingredients: flour, baking soda and salt together or you can whisk together as well.
- In another large bowl, using an electric mixer at medium speed, beat together the butter, and sugars until smooth and mixed together well.
- Add the egg and vanilla and mix on low speed until mixed in.
- Gradually add the flour mixture and mix in until just incorporated. Do not keep mixing - do not overmix.
- Add chocolate chips and stir with a wooden spoon, again no overmixing, just until incorporated.
- Chill dough if dough is warm.
- Using a small or large ice cream scoop or heaping tablespoon, drop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, 6 to 8 per pan, depending on size you are making.
- Bake the cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until the bottoms and edges are lightly browned and the tops feel firm when lightly touched,
- Small cookies bake 8-10 minutes
- Large cookies bake 10-13 minutes.
- Let the cookies cool for 5 minutes on the baking sheets, then transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
- Makes 18 -30 cookies depending on size.
Video
Notes
- Butter Tips How to Avoid Flat Cookies: Be sure your butter is room temperature (not melted or even softened), and try using cold/chilled dough if dough is warm: Just put it in the refrigerator to chill before baking.
- Flour Tips: Don't over-mix cookie batter especially after the flour is added and add it gradually.
- Baking Soda Tip: Make sure your baking soda is not expired.
- Chocolate Chip Tips: If you're in chocoholic mode, go the full 2 1/4 cups of chocolate chips as the recipe calls out. If you want to tone down the chocolate chips, just use a lesser amount to your liking.
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I was searching for a perfect yet simple recipe and this one is by far the best cookies I have ever eaten. I brought them for Christmas and they were gone within minutes and begged for the recipe so I ahappily shared your link. I didn’t change a thing and followed it to a T. Thank you so much. I can’t wait to try your other recipes.
So glad you enjoyed them Cheri! Yes, modify them to your liking and definitely worth every bite. 🙂 Thank you dear!
Absolutely Laurie! I love walnuts and chocolate together, wonderful combo!! Comin’ over! 🙂
I made these and they are wonderful. I cut back 1/4 cup of chocolate and there was still lots of wonderful chips in every bite. Can I cut the chocolate in half and substitute walnuts?
This is my new favorite Chocolate Chip recipe! I followed it to a T. The only change I’ll make for next time is to use a little less chips. It was such a hit that we ate them all within a couple of days. Need to up my cardio, but every bite is worth it!!!
Please do Shabistan! I would love to hear! Happy Holidays!! 😀
I was searching for best chocolate chip cookie recipes and here I am? going to bake for my little one….I hope they turn out like yours. Will let you know.
Sounds like too much flour, are you sure you measured correctly? I have never had these come out dry..sorry Laura!
I just tried this recipe, but my cookies are dry. I dont know what I did wrong. When I baked them, the cookies did not spread much at all but they did cook all the way through and taste good. Butter was room temp and I measured everything correctly…even chilled dough. Idk…
You can do it Temiya! 15 – 30 depending how big you make them. Happy Holidays!! 🙂
These cookies look delicious. i probably won’t make them as good as yours but I’ll try.
P.S. How many cookies does this recipe make?
Glad you enjoyed them Ifrah. I don’t know about the oil, I’ve never tried it, but I usually don’t make cookies with oil, it’s usually always butter, but I’ve read where you can try substituting one-fourth or half the butter with oil. If you try it, let us know how it works out. Happy Holidays! 🙂
Hello! I just made these cookies. First batch got a lil overcooked resulting in crunchy cookies instead of chewy ones. Second is in the oven right now. Hopefully I’ll get them right this time. I followed the recipe to the tee. I just feel them quite sugary to my taste so I’ll reduce the sugar next time. Thank you for this recipe.
P.S. please do reply to my question regarding substituting butter with oil. Thank you!
Hi! I came across your recipe on pinterest and couldn’t resist no matter how much I tried. So today I gathered all the ingredients and made the cookie dough. I’ve put the dough in refrigerator and will make them tomorrow. Just a little question here, the dough was quite hard to mix when it came to adding chocolate chips. Is it normal? I’ve never worked with butter before. Is this how the “butter” dough works? Also, can I replace butter with canola oil? I’m hopeful that you’ll reply because I’m very new to cookie baking. TIA.
I couldnt read through all the comments, but am i the only one eho added a 1/2 cup of oil? I thought the dough was dry while trying to mix the flour. Fyi they came out great!
Thank you Cricket! I’m so glad you enjoyed them and modified your chocolate chips to your liking. 🙂 Merry Christmas!!!
These cookies were so delicious but had an absurd amount of chocolate. Everyone kept saying they were far too rich and the dough barely stuck together between all of the chocolate. Luckily I was making seven batches so I was able to quickly correct the rest and the result with less chocolate chips was by far the best chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever had or made. They were like a fancy bakery cookie. An absolute hit for Christmas. I ended up making very large cookies by using a 1/4 cup scoop for the dough balls and cooked it at 340 for around 13-15 minutes.
I’m so sorry Pat, but I have no idea why this would be happening to you. I haven’t heard of this happening to anyone else, maybe there was a glitch on that pin. I’ve never had that happen, I tried it myself and if you click the actual picture you will come to my site and if you click ‘make it’ then you come to my site, like everyone else’s pins. I didn’t have the rolling thru the comments like you did. I’m sorry, I wish I could help. Maybe reboot and try again?
I am having major problem with your web site. When I get to the recipe for choc chip cookies, which I saved on Pintrist, but your site comes up with the recipe, it immediately starts rolling thru all the comments and I go back to the top to get recipe again, and once the recipe comes up, it starts rolling again. It is very maddening. It takes me forever to try and get a few ingredients at a time so I can make them. I will no longer try to save a recipe if it is going to jump to your web site.
Yay! So happy to hear that Lucia! They are good even with a small amount of chocolate chips. Merry Christmas!!
I used less chocolate chips, eye balled it. But these turned out soooo good! THank you! Thanks for the tips!
Thank you Jen! I like cookies with a little salt, makes everything taste better! I so agree! Yum on the dried cherries too! Merry Christmas dear!
Oh my gosh! Well done! These are soooo good – sweet and rich with just the right amount of salt. The only change/addition I made was that I added 4 ounces of shopped dried cherries (not maraschino, but the type you find on the raisin aisle) and it added just a hint of tang. Thank you for upping my cookie game!!!
Hi Kimberly! Most cookie doughs can be refrigerated, make sure they are well-wrapped, for three to five days before baking. If you want to make it farther in advance, freeze the dough for up to 3 months. 2-4 hours on the counter. 🙂
How long can I keep this in the fridge before baking? and how long can I store it on the counter for?
Thank you so much Ashita! 🙂
amazing choco chip cookies. thnks a lot for sharing
Allison thank you! I’m glad you found your way here!!!
This really are the best chocolate chip cookies. I’ve been looking for a really good recipe and I have finally found it. No need to look any further.
You are so welcome Max! Thank you so much for commenting! Happy Holidays!
These are the best cookies I’ve ever had thanks for the recipe
I am so ecstatic everyone loved them! Thank you so much for letting me know Carolyn!! Happy Holidays and chocolate chip cookies go together! 🙂
I love chocolate chip cookies and these were so easy and delicious! Followed the recipe exactly and my kids loved them!!! Better than the Toll House recipe I’ve been using.
These cookies were awesome! I tripled the recipe, added a large box of vanilla pudding, 3 1/2 C of choc chips, and baked at 375 for9 min after rolling the refrigerated dough into a ball and lightly pushed each ball down on the silicone sheet. Turned out great!
Awww thank you so much KenZi! I’m so glad you tried it with the coconut palm sugar and they turned out awesome! I’m sure others will try that version because it seems to be so popular with the healthy crowd! Thank you for your tip! 😀
Really is an absolutely perfect recipe! I highly recommend using coconut palm sugar instead of brown sugar, it really gave them a rich and decadent taste! Thank you for the tips with the butter! xo
Courtney, that is so sweet! That is amazing and thank you so much!
These cookies are absolutely perfect. This is the last chocolate chip cookie recipe I will ever need.
Thank you so much for your kind comments Kassia! So glad you enjoyed them and will be making them again! 😀
I just made these and they’re amazing. I doubled the recipe. They’re so soft. I added more chips then the recipe called for as well. Will be making again.
Wow! I am excited you will never being pre-made dough again! I love this cookie dough, it’s so versatile and your cookie adaption sounds amazing! Sweet and salty is really the best for sure. 🙂 Happy Thanksgiving and thank you for the kind words.
I just made these last night and they are amazing!!! My boyfriend loved them. I used semi-sweet chocolate, milk chocolate, and butterscotch chips and they came out so good. I also added some sea salt at the end because I wanted them sweet and salty. Such a great and easy recipe. I’m never buying pre-made dough again!
Awww that is so sweet Sara! I’m so glad you found your way here! Thank you so much for your kind comments! Happy Thanksgiving!!
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I don’t normally leave reviews, but I’ve tried a lot of different chocolate chip cookie recipes and none of them have been even okay. This one is AMAZING. I even messed it up a little and it still turned out awesome. This one will definitely be the only one I use from now on.
Jacqui that sounds amazing with the all your substitutions and the ice cream! Oh I think I’m gonna have to do that now! LOL!!
Thanks for you comments, so sweet! 🙂
Best cookie recipe I’ve tried! I used Earth Balance dairy and soy free butter and EnjoyLife dairy free chocolate chips. So good! And add some So Delicious cashew milk Very Vanilla ice cream in the middle ?
Thank you so much Stefani! I’m so thrilled you made them and everyone loved them!!
I made these cookies and took some to work and they truly are perfect! Soooo good and just the right amount of chocolate chips! Everyone who tried them loved them. Thanks!
Thank you so much Thayane for your kind comments! 😀 I’m so glad everyone loved them!
I think the word perfect is short for this recipe because it’s the best recipe I have made until now. I made for a party and everybody love it, super recommended!!