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.
Anna says
Lives up to its name! So easy and so delicious. These will be my go to cookies from now on.
My mix was a teeny bit wetter that the photos in the recipe but they came out perfectly.
Carolyn says
Oh wow! This is the recipe I've been searching for. I made it as a slice in a sponge roll tin, baked at 160 for 30 mins and it was perfectly crisp and fudgy in the right places.
Dan says
10/10 came from Google looking for gory stories, left with the best chocolate chip recipe ever.
Megan says
The best and easiest cookies ever!
Natalie says
Yum, these are great cookies. Super easy to make, I love a one bowl baking recipe. Great for the school lunch boxes.
Carolyn says
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!
Helen says
Just discovered your site and have whipped a batch of your cookies - OMG! yum!
Definitely making this recipe again! 🙂
p says
very very good
Lesley Williamson says
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!
Emma H says
These cookies are so easy and yum but mine are quite puffy. How do you get them flat like yours?
Laura says
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
Leigh says
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
Laura says
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
Bea says
Absolutely the best choc chip cookies ever!!
Michelle says
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.
Samantha says
great every time! the chewy version is my favorite
Bonnie says
For the butter, how much is 115 grams in tablespoons or cups?
Thanks
Isabel says
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
Lani says
Hi are these able to be frozen...I'm new to this baking thing and I'd like to be able to make a few batches to freeze. Many Thanks.
Laura says
Hi Isabel, you can definitely freeze the baked cookies but my preference is to scoop the dough balls and freeze them. Then you can place them frozen on the tray, let them soften slightly while the oven heats and bake them that way. Easy fresh baked cookies!
Poppy taylor says
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
samantha says
I have made these several times and they are awesome! I like them soft. They come out perfect.
jayne says
These look so perfect Laura! love a chewy choc chip cookie - great recipe
Claire @ My Pink & Green Life says
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!
Laura says
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!