The best homemade chewy chocolate chip cookies! Basic ingredients, 1 bowl, no softened butter, no chilling, just 25 minutes between you and cookie perfection!
Let's talk cookies, or more specifically, the BEST chewy chocolate chip cookies ever.
I am a firm believer that everyone needs a solid chocolate chip cookie recipe that you know by heart and make on a semi (or very) regular basis, and I'm happy to report that THESE are those cookies!
You guys know by now how much I love cookies - we've made homemade versions of so many favourites like oreos stuffed with different flavoured icing, the nostalgic 100's & 1000's biscuits of our 90's childhoods, delicious peppermint flavoured mint slices and even jam filled Shrewsbury biscuits. Well, as much as I love making them, the cookies that are on almost a weekly baking schedule in our house are these ones.
The best thing about these cookies is that they are so super easy to make. 100% kid or non-baker friendly. No softened butter, no chilling the cookie dough, no mixer, just throw everything together in a mixing bowl, scoop out 12 massive cookies or 24 smaller ones and bake for as long as you like depending on exactly how you like your cookies.
Play around with it! For bigger cookies, at 10 minutes the cookies will still be super soft. At 12 minutes they are perfect (in my opinion!) - just starting to go crunchy on the outside but still soft & chewy on the inside. 14 minutes and they are harder, crunchier cookies. It's your call. Try them all and let me know which you prefer!
I used to make 12 giant cookies with this recipe back when it was only me and Josh enjoying them but now that we have small kids, I prefer to make them smaller so that there are more to go around and also, the smaller sized ones fit better in their lunchboxes! 8-10 minutes is all they take to bake at this size.
You can also easily double the recipe if you need to make cookies for a crowd.
How to freeze cookie dough
This cookie dough freezes extremely well - I scoop dough balls out onto a tray and pop the tray straight into the oven to freeze. Once the dough balls have frozen, I transfer them to an airtight container or snaplock bag in the freezer and keep them in there until I'm ready to bake them.
To bake frozen cookie dough balls, I place the frozen dough balls on the oven tray and let them thaw slightly while the oven is heating. Then bake as per instructions, just give them an extra couple of minutes.
Frozen cookie dough makes an excellent snack straight out of the freezer or chopped up and mixed through vanilla ice cream. And the jumbo sized cookies are perfect in ice-cream sandwich form come summer!
The Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (ever)
Ingredients
- 115 grams butter melted
- ½ cup (105g) white sugar
- ½ cup (100g) brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ½ cups (210g) flour
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F and prepare a baking tray with baking paper or a Silpat liner. Set aside.
- Melt the butter in a large pyrex jug in the microwave or in a large pot on the stove.
- Add the sugars to the melted butter and whisk together. Add the egg and vanilla and whisk again.
- Add the flour, baking soda, salt and chocolate chips and mix together well until all ingredients are incorporated.
- Spoon 12 even sized scoops onto the prepared baking tray - I like to use a small ice-cream scoop to make sure they are all the same size.
- Bake for 10-12 minutes for soft cookies or 12-14 minutes for crunchier cookies.
- Allow to cool on the tray for 10 minutes and then transfer to a cooling rack.
- Store in an airtight container for 1 week.
ASHLEIGH JOHNSTON says
These were gooey and delicious. The dough freezes well. I flattened it out so it defrosted quickly when the cookie craving kicked in again.
Alana says
Incredible easy recipe! I double and make enough cookies for school lunches. So good tasty and easy!
Elly Toft says
Best cookie recipe! I use it all the time - add chopped chocolate chunks rather
Chips and chopped roasted hazelnuts - so good. Also great with chocolate and raisin ❤️
Charlie says
Delicious we froze it and put it in the freezer so then when we what it just take it out of the freezer and put it in the oven it’s especially great school food but yeah delicious
recommend 💯
Steph says
How long do you bake for from frozen?
Laura says
I usually just add a couple of extra minutes, so check them from 10 minutes!
C.MCKONE says
For whatever reason my dough was too sloppy. Added another 1/2 cup of flour and 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder and they came out fine. Would make again.
Kytie says
So easy to make 🍪✨so yummy 😋
Angela Pigott says
Fantastic recipe.
Khelsie says
Ok, I am NOT A BAKER by any means (even though I’m married to one) but I made these and yuummmm… did not wait for them to cool down though! Sooo good warm & gooey still. I split the batch & added a blob of pistachio spread in the middle & well, you can imagine. 🤤 definitely saving this recipe as I usually HATE baking because of the mess & excessive measuring required but I will 💯 be making these again!