Red White and Blue Chocolate Chip Cookies
Get ready to devour the best soft, chewy & thick Red, White and Blue Chocolate Chip Cookies warm and melty right out of the oven for your 4th of July celebration! Add some festive Sprinkles too!
Servings: 18 Large Cookies
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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
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup chocolate chips of choice add more to tops if desired.
- 1 ½ cups Red, White and Blue M&M's add more to tops if desired.
- Optional Red, White and Blue Sprinkles add more to tops and/or add to cookie dough for more color
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 and red, white and blue m&ms and sprinkles,
- 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. Add any extra m&m's, chocolate chips and sprinkles to tops if desired at this time or immediately after you bake cookies.
- Bake for 12-14 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.