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.
Esmee' says
The recipe is the best!!!!!!!
Bree says
Absolutely delicious! My go to cookie recipe.
lesley says
Awesome recipe as everyone said it is sooo easy and they are yummy!
Thank you
Sylvia says
I've never been able to do cookies right, don't know why but these were the first that came out perfect and how delicious! A fave with the family and kids for sure! Thanks for the great recipe.
Jemma says
Hi Laura, HELP my cookies are not turning out flat and chewy?! Oven is preheated, baking soda is correct, butter melted etc. But my mixture seems a lot wetter than yours. Where could I be going wrong? My sister uses your recipe and hers are perfect like yours!
Laura says
Hi Jemma - are you using a cup to measure the flour or a scale? I don't usually bother being too particular with weights but I have found in the recipe when I let my kids get a little heavy handed with the flour they don't tend to end up quite as flat as I like them! So maybe just try adding a little less flour and see how you go!
Meredith says
Hi there, is the oven temp fan?
Laura says
Hi there, no I use conventional bake
Amy McLachlan says
These are my new fave! I triple the recipe and freeze them! Perfect to get out and pop into a lunchbox for a wee treat.
Hayley says
Great recipe! Kids love it and allows for lots of variation in ingredients. Macadamia and white choc is yum!
Catherine says
I bake cookies 2-3x a week (we prefer fresh bake over store bought biscuits). Needless to say I have many recipes from US version to kiwis ones and this is by far the best. I over good mine a bit and they still were perfect just a little crunchy :). Great job Laura
Anna says
These cookies are so delicious! Definitely a favorite in our house. I have been making them for 6 months now. My 4 year olds favorite. We swap the chocolate out for M&Ms! Thanks for the great recipe!
Sarah says
Im not a baker but want to try and make rather than buy. kids loved the cookies. Is it possible to reduce the amount of sugar? I found them a bit overly sweet where all I could taste was sugar. If I do reduce the sugar do you have to change the amount of flour?
Laura says
You can easily reduce the sugar by about half and it will still be ok!
Anouschka Marshall says
Amazing recipe. So easy. Made these a few times now. The farming boys love them for smoko. Tonight we made them with mini m&ms instead of choc chips for school holidays. I honestly think my 5 year old could have made these on her own they are that easy and a great treat.
Rose says
Fantastic recipe. Super easy and quick. I add M&Ms as well as chocolate chips. The kids absolutely love them.
Jenny says
What type of flour did you use (self raising or plain),
Laura says
Hi Jenny, plain flour in these 🙂
Sam says
These are delicious and so easy to make even with a toddler "assisting"...yum...will definitely make again!
Trudy says
My 9yr old made these (1st recipe without mum hovering) and they turned out great. Thank you very much she is totally proud now.
Amanda says
Hands down tastiest cookies I've ever made, and added bonus- the easiest too!
Me says
Good
Marcie says
Thanks for a great, easy and yummy recipe Laura!
Samantha says
Hands down the best cookies I have ever made! I normally rely on the Chelsea sugar recipe's for cookies, but these were just so much better. The only thing I noticed when doubling the recipe was that I needed more flour then said. Other than that these cookies were perfect!