The best homemade chewy chocolate chip cookies! Basic ingredients, 1 bowl, no softened butter, no chilling, just 25 minutes between you and cookie perfection!
So before we get into the recipe for the best chewy chocolate chip cookies ever I have a sad farm story for you. If you have a particular fondness for chickens you might want to skip ahead to the recipe.
Our puppies ate one of our chickens.
Well, they didn't really eat it but they got into the paddock and chased it and kind of mauled it. So it died.
And I mean, it's not like I'm super attached to my chickens but this actually made me really sad. Which is weird considering the fact that we raise chickens to eat. But I think it's different. That is their lot in life from the start, whereas these girls we hatched ourselves and their whole purpose is to hang out in the paddock, laying eggs and just being happy chickens! Poor little thing, just minding her own business in her territory and then enter 2 crazy puppies and it's all over. And I'm not sure how I feel about the puppies right now - I know it's instinct but...just don't!
Now our issue is what's going to happen when we try to teach Sage that she's supposed to retrieve ducks but can't touch the chickens? Where are my dog/chicken owners at? Has anyone dealt with this? Help please!
Farm life.
But let's talk cookies, or more specifically, the BEST chewy chocolate chip cookies ever. You guys know by now how much I love cookies right? Well, I always come back to 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 and bake for as long as you like depending on exactly how you like your cookies. Play around with it. 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 always make 12 cookies with this recipe but that's because I'm a piglet and I think you may as well go big or go home. Also, there is enough dough for exactly 12 cookies scooped out of my ice-cream scoop with juuuust enough leftover for me to have a little snack. But feel free to make more cookies if you want them smaller, just keep an eye on them in the oven as they will cook faster - probably 8-10 minutes.
You can also double the recipe if you need to make cookies for a crowd and the dough will freeze well, as will the baked cookies. And OMG I just realised that these cookies are destined to be in ice-cream sandwich form come summer. YES!! Bring it on 🙂
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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 tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ cups (210g) flour
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ⅛ tsp 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.
Nutrition
10/10 came from Google looking for gory stories, left with the best chocolate chip recipe ever.
The best and easiest cookies ever!
Yum, these are great cookies. Super easy to make, I love a one bowl baking recipe. Great for the school lunch boxes.
Love how quick, easy and yum these were for a cold winters morning tea. Not too many to over-indulge on either. Mine weren’t quite as flat as yours but I see the comment above about extra flour and that makes sense, will definitely make again with my helpers!
Just discovered your site and have whipped a batch of your cookies - OMG! yum!
Definitely making this recipe again! 🙂
very very good
The chocolate bits melted in the mixture before getting them into the oven! I need to let the butter cool down - it was only just melted - used pot on stove!
These cookies are so easy and yum but mine are quite puffy. How do you get them flat like yours?
Hi Emma, try adding a little less flour, just a couple of tablespoons less - I know the times I've let my daughter measure the flour (and add too much) the cookies have been puffy too! Laura
Hello, we have just clicked on to your recipe only to be saddened & confused as to why you would tell us about your dog & chicken situation so we decided not to make the recipe & not visit your site again.....bit appalled really as to why you would mention this in a cookie recipe, even my teenager son was disgusted. We know the rural life is hard but making cookies should be pleasurable.
We are sure it was not intended to horrify people but please be a bit more considerate & sensitive when posted things like this online certainly on a cooking page....We have never encountered this before, hopefully never again....Thankyou
Hi Leigh, I often write back stories or anecdotes about rural life on here - this blog/website is my place where I share recipes that we love as well as farm life, the good and the bad. If that's not your cup of tea, there is a "jump to recipe" button at the top of the page that you can click to take you straight to the recipe. Thanks! Laura
Absolutely the best choc chip cookies ever!!
Yummy yummy best ever chocolate chewy biscuits !!! It is the first time I have made the chewy version of chocolate chip cookies. They are definitely yummy.
great every time! the chewy version is my favorite
For the butter, how much is 115 grams in tablespoons or cups?
Thanks
These cookies are amazing first time I have been able to make delicious crunchy on the outside cookies with a slight chew most times I bake cookies and they end up more soft and Camry buy these are divine a new family favourite me and my 3 year old made them as a rainy day activity today and we will definitely be making them again thanks so much x
This recipe is soooo good, I was looking for a decent chocolate chip cookie recipe that didn't need a stand mixer because I am SO sick of cleaning mine, so I chosse this one, they were deliciouse and just how I would of wanted them
I have made these several times and they are awesome! I like them soft. They come out perfect.
These look so perfect Laura! love a chewy choc chip cookie - great recipe
Oh I am SO jealous of your chickens! I've wanted chickens for years, but they're so hard to have in the suburbs because of all the regulations for them. I shall have them someday, though. 🙂
Congrats on the interview, too! I loved seeing pictures of your farm. And these cookies. Helloooo heaven... I am a chewy cookie girl all the way!
Thanks Claire! You should definitely get chickens when you can...they're so cool! Thank you! And thanks for reading it! The cookies are my fave...chewy all the way!