Hi Bold Bakers! WHY YOU’LL LOVE THIS RECIPE: This Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe has everything you want in a classic treat—crispy on the outside, gooey on the inside, and packed with chocolatey goodness. Already have an account?
Perfect Texture: Crispy edges with a soft, chewy center make each bite irresistible. Loaded with Chocolate: A 50-50 ratio of dough to chocolate means every cookie is bursting with melted chocolate pools. Tried and True: Thousands of rave reviews prove this is the only chocolate chip cookie recipe you’ll ever need.
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What is a Chocolate Chip Cookie?
A Chocolate Chip Cookie is a classic American dessert that features a rich, buttery dough studded with semi-sweet chocolate pieces, originally popularized by Ruth Graves Wakefield in 1939.
Origin: Created at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts, it became a staple in homes across the country. Texture: The ideal cookie has golden-brown edges, a soft and chewy center, and pools of melted chocolate. Specialty: Our Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe features a perfect balance of brown and white sugar for enhanced texture and a generous 50-50 ratio of dough to bittersweet chocolate chunks. Preparation Tip: Chilling the dough before baking helps meld the flavors and achieves the perfect cookie consistency.
Tools You Need
Baking sheet and parchment paper Mixing bowls Whisk Spatula Measuring cups Wire rack
Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
All-purpose Flour:
All-purpose flour (AKA plain flour) is the base of these cookies. It has a protein content of around 11%, so the cookies will be soft.
Salt:
A pinch of salt will enhance your cookies’ flavor by balancing out the sweetness.
Baking Soda:
It gives you a chewy cookie with a gooey, doughier center (using baking powder would give you a cakey cookie). Baking soda reacts with the small amount of natural acid from eggs to lightly leaven the cookies. Baking soda reacts with hot sugar contributing to the flavor and browning of cookies. Baking soda delays the setting process allowing cookies to spread more properly. Find the science behind these in this article Baking Powder VS. Baking Soda When Baking Cookies.
Both white sugar and brown sugar:
They sweeten cookies, bind easily with water to lock in moisture moisten cookies and inhibit excess gluten formation and contribute to browning and flavors. Granulated Sugar (AKA: White Sugar/Caster Sugar) is the main sweetener. With less moisture than brown sugar, white sugar caramelizes faster and gives the cookies delicately crispy edges. Comparatively, Brown Sugar adds moisture to give cookies a gooey chewy center and a lovely hint of caramel. I recommend dark brown sugar which has more moisture and a deeper caramel flavor than light brown sugar. Make your own or enrich it using my recipe How to Make Brown Sugar.
Fat
Butter:
Contains around 80% milk fat which adds richness to cookies. Salted butter adds extra flavor and is what I always use, but unsalted butter works too.
Wet Ingredients
Eggs:
Eggs always need to be at room temperature in baking unless specified otherwise. Eggs enrich flavors. The yolks act as an emulsifier to bind all ingredients homogeneously, and the egg whites help make the cookies soft.
Vanilla extract:
Works as a seasoning to bring out the flavor of the other ingredients and specifically pairs really well with bittersweet chocolate. Make your own using my Homemade Extract recipe.
Add-ins
Bittersweet Chocolate:
Bittersweet chocolate (63 – 72 % cocoa solids) is darker and more pronounced than semisweet chocolate and has the perfect balance of bitter and sweet. Hence, this is my go-to chocolate. Find out more about chocolate here in my Ultimate Guide to the Different Types of Chocolate.
How To Make the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
Making the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Bake
Create crinkles
Gemma’s Pro Chef Tips for the Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Troubleshooting
Why Are My Cookies Too Flat? How to avoid cookies spread?
Why Are My Cookies Too Puffy? How to make cookies spread out properly?
How do I know my chocolate chip cookies are properly baked?
Bake the cookies until the edges are set and the cookies begin to turn darker or golden brown throughout, but still doughie and a bit pale in the middle. They may appear raw but will set more while cooling down.
Can I Make the Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies Egg-Free?
Yes. You can always use my egg substitute chart and still enjoy fabulous cookies. [ Vegan? Try my Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe! ]
Can I make gluten-free chocolate chip cookies?
Yes, you can use a gluten-free flour blend or our Easy Almond Flour Baking Mix to make this recipe gluten free.
Why did my cookies come out oily?
The secret to getting a cookie that’s crisp on the edges but chewy in the middle is to bake a very cold or frozen dough in a really hot oven. You can form the dough into balls before freezing. Then just place them on a cookie sheet and bake them in a preheated oven. Keep this in mind: cold dough, hot oven. Also do not overmix, as that will separate the butter, giving you a greasy cookie as a result.
Should you use brown butter in cookies?
Brown butter adds a deeper, nuttier flavor to cookies, such as Butter Pecan Cookies and Best-Ever Oatmeal Cookies. But regular butter works too. To brown butter, heat butter in a saucepan on medium-low heat until it turns a nice amber color. Keep an eye on it and it will turn brown fast. Make sure not to let it burn.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This recipe was updated and improved on 10/11/2024, to include make-ahead and storage instructions, more answers to the most frequently asked questions (GF options/brown butter), and perfected Pro-Chef Tips. Full (and printable) recipe below!
