These Best Ever Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are truly the BEST homemade chocolate chip cookies you’ll ever make! They’re soft and chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside. And don’t forget to follow my pro tips for the PERFECT chocolate chip cookies every single time!
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** I originally shared this recipe in 2015. I’m re-posting it today with updated photos (the recipe is the same).We’re really going back to basics today with this classic Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe, but everyone needs a really good cookie recipe in their baking repertoire and this one is mine. Because sometimes you just need a really good chocolate chip cookie. Or 3. And a nice, tall glass of milk to go with it!
There’s just something about a delicious chocolate chip cookie with a crispy exterior and that soft, melt-in-your-mouth, slightly under-baked interior with melted chocolate chunks that tastes like childhood…am I right?I copied a chocolate chip cookie recipe from an off-brand bag of chocolate chips about 15 years ago (and I can’t even remember the brand, to be honest!) and I’ve modified it again and again over the years to create a super soft and chewy cookie with the perfect crispy exterior that hits the spot every single time! These Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are truly amazing, and I know you’re going to love them!
How to make the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies ever!
- Start with room temperature butter. It’s important that the butter is at room temperature before you add it to the mixer, so make sure you take it out of the fridge a few hours before you plan to make cookies.
- Beat the butter and sugar well. To give your cookies an ideal texture, the sugar needs to dissolve in the butter. Beat the butter and sugar for about 4 minutes, until the mixture starts to turn very smooth and just a little bit fluffy.
- Mix in the chocolate chips by hand (with a spoon, not an electric mixer). This will ensure the chocolate chips keep their shape, and that you’ll have nice large pockets of melted chocolate in every cookie.
- Form into balls and refrigerate for an hour before baking. Refrigerating the dough before baking allows the butter in the dough to firm up again, creating the perfect texture as it bakes. But be sure to form the cookies into balls before refrigerating so they have the perfect round shape when baked!
- Bake just until the cookies lose their shine. If you want chocolate chip cookies with the perfect chewy interior, then bake them just until the tops of the cookies lose their shine. They’ll be crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.
- Let them cool completely on the pans. Don’t move the cookies off the baking pans until they’ve cooled completely. Cookies continue to bake on the hot pan even after you’ve removed them from the oven.
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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside - the PERFECT chocolate chip cookies with pro tips!
5 from 7 votes
By Chrissie
Yield 36 cookies
Prep 1 hour hr
Cook 10 minutes mins
Total 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins
Recipe: Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 cups your favourite chocolate chips dark, milk or semi-sweet...your choice!
Recipe: Instructions
Fit your stand mixer with the paddle attachment and add the butter to the bowl of the stand mixer. It's important that the butter is at room temperature before you add it to the mixer, so make sure you take it out of the fridge a few hours before you plan to make cookies.
The temperature of the butter is a pretty controversial topic among cookie-bakers: too cold and it won't cream properly with the sugar, and too warm and the cookies will flatten out too much in the oven. Ideally, the butter should be just below room temperature, and slightly firm but not hard. But because of a special little trick you'll use in a minute just make sure the butter isn't too hard to beat properly.
Beat the butter for about a minute on medium speed until it's smooth.
Add the sugars to the bowl.
Beat for about 2 minutes, until the mixture starts to turn smooth and just a little bit fluffy.
Add the eggs and vanilla and beat on medium speed until they're well combined (about 45 seconds), scraping down the sides of the bowl now and then to ensure everything is incorporated.
Add the flour, salt, and baking soda to a separate bowl and whisk them together to ensure the baking soda and salt are evenly distributed through the flour. Dump the flour mixture into the butter mixture.
Mix on low speed, just until the dry ingredients are incorporated completely.
Remove the bowl from the stand mixer and dump in 2 cups of your favourite chocolate chips. Traditional chocolate chip cookies are made with semi-sweet chocolate chips, but feel free to experiment with dark unsweetened chocolate or even milk chocolate if you're so inclined.
Mix the chocolate chips into the cookie dough by hand using a rubber spatula. This will prevent the stand mixer from breaking up the chocolate pieces into the dough. A nice, gentle mix is best at this stage.
Try to resist the urge to grab a spoon and start shoving cookie dough in your mouth, and begin rolling the dough into balls about 1.5 tablespoons at a time.
Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and arrange the balls of dough on the baking sheet in rows. You don't need to worry about the distance between the cookies at this point because you're going to refrigerate the dough for an hour before baking.
Refrigerating the dough before baking allows the butter in the dough to firm up again, creating the perfect texture as it bakes. Once all the dough is rolled into balls (you should get about 3 dozen cookies), place the baking sheet in the fridge and leave it for at least 60 minutes.
Once 60 minutes have passed, remove the baking sheet from the fridge and preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. While the oven is heating up, line another baking sheet with parchment and arrange the cookies about 12 to a pan so there's adequate space in between them. They spread out a fair bit during baking.
Bake each pan for about 10-11 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies brown ever-so-slightly. It's a good idea to watch them after about 8 minutes of baking.
Let the cookies cool on the pan for several minutes until they firm up enough to transfer to a cooling rack.
Enjoy them with a glass of milk while they're still warm and the chocolate is still nice and soft.
Recipe: Notes
These cookies freeze well, and they also keep for up to a week in an airtight container...if they last that long!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American, Cookies
Keywords: Best Ever Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe: Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Amount Per Serving (1 serving)
Calories 162Calories from Fat 72
% Daily Value*
Fat 8g12%
Saturated Fat 5g31%
Cholesterol 24mg8%
Sodium 108mg5%
Potassium 21mg1%
Carbohydrates 22g7%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 15g17%
Protein 2g4%
Vitamin A 193IU4%
Vitamin C 1mg1%
Calcium 21mg2%
Iron 1mg6%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.
