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.
Nadia van Rijn says
I have made these cookies at least 4 times now. We absolutely mow through them so quickly! delicious and simple. I do a little bit less suger ( not full measuring cups) and place my dough balls in small muffin trays to stop them from flattening out too much. Now they're perfect. Im going to try chocolate and macadamia next time
Jess says
I have tried so many recipes, this is my favourite by far. I’ve saved it to my phone
Kim says
I love this cookie recipe. Quick, easy and delicious! ❤️
Mel says
These are INCREDIBLE!!! I've struggled to find a good chocolate chip cookie recipe as I found they always came out cakey and wouldn't spread but these cookies turned out amazing and spread perfectly in the oven! They are so easy to make and are the BEST chocolate chip cookies I've had!! Thanks so much for the recipe!!!
Sheree says
So easy to make and they taster delicious!
Liz says
Best cookie recipe ever. Thank you!!!
Penny says
These are really good. Even better if you accidentally brown the butter while melting it!
Laura says
You just made them fancy brown butter cookies, amazing!
Kim James says
Delicious cookies I find it very hard to find the perfect recipe but I just found it!!! Sooooooo gooood
Mel says
Amazing, love these. Would be interested to know if anyone has tried making these with gluten free flour??
Balls says
Best Chocolate Chip Cookies ever. My son likes to make them and they are sooo Good!! I really recommend this recipe
Urvashi Dhanjee says
No mixer, no chilling, so easy. But best of all, DELICIOUS!!!
Ashley J says
This is my go to recipe for cookies now, my 11 year old and I have a sweet tooth and now she makes a batch when we need some cookies its so handy I know it off by heart now!!
Danielle says
Mine keep coming out cakey and rising to big instead if going flat, any tips? 🙂
Laura says
Try using a little bit less flour!
Dee says
Best chocolate chip cookie recipe I’ve ever made. Will only use this recipe now. Both my boys love it- the first home made choc biscuits one of my kids has ever enjoyed. Thank you, just perfect! So addictive too.
Jules says
Oh my goodness! I was about to give up on baking as a lost cause, but these are so delicious that I will make them. So easy!!
Matt Grace says
These are the best choc chip cookies I’ve ever made! So, so easy, soft and chewy, absolutely delicious! I’ve just made a double batch to share with friends!
Wendy Bevan says
I made these with my 11 year old Grandaughter. We didn't have brown sugar so we just used white. They are delicious. I definitely recommend this recipe this recipe.
Thankyou Laura 😊
Stephanie says
Very good cookies, easy recipe and I think this will replace my usual cookie recipe that I use. I think I made the balls too big though so something to change for next time 😊
milly says
i make them every week but i double it so there are more delicious cookie to enjoy.
Jan says
Made these this afternoon. I have a feeling my young Grandson will love these. I doubled the recipe & got approx 40 smaller sized biscuits. I halved the sugar & used half wholemeal flour, a tablespoon of wheatgerm & a couple of tabkespoons of baking bran. They have come out GREAT!!
jenny says
thats awesome jan