Or, the perfect homemade chocolate chip cookies. This is another recipe that has been making the rounds of many, many blogs but again, for good reason – they are AWESOME! The first time I made this recipe was several months ago for parents’ night in Ben’s classroom. They looked great and smelled incredible, but they were completely gobbled up before I was able to try one! Since then I have made them many times and they never last long in our house either. After finding this recipe I have no desire to ever try another for chocolate chip cookies. If you’re looking for a classic, this is it.
Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients:
2 cups plus 2 tbsp. all-purpose flour
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
12 tbsp. unsalted butter, melted and cooled until warm
1 cup brown sugar, packed
½ cup granulated sugar
1 large egg plus 1 egg yolk
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
Directions:
Adjust oven racks to upper and lower-middle positions. Preheat oven 325°. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Whisk dry ingredients together in a medium bowl; set aside. With electric mixer, or by hand, mix butter and sugars until thoroughly combined. Beat in egg, yolk, and vanilla until combined. Add dry ingredients and beat at low-speed just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
Roll a scant half-cup of dough into a ball. Holding dough ball in fingertips of both hands, pull apart into two equal halves. Rotate halves 90 degrees and, with jagged surfaces facing up, place formed dough onto cookie sheet, leaving ample room between each ball. Bake, reversing position of cookie sheets halfway through baking, until cookies are light golden brown and outer edges start to harden yet centers are still soft and puffy (approximately 11-14 minutes). Do not overbake.
Cool cookies on sheets until able to lift without breaking. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.
Source: adapted from Blonde Ambition in the Kitchen, originally from Baking Illustrated
Mmmm…I love big fat chewy cookies. Looks wonderful!
This is a BI recipe I’ve got on my list to try. They look perfect and I’m sure taste perfect as well!
Ahh these really are the best chocolate chip cookies. I don’t think I’ll try any other recipes either. Now I want some!
Wow those just look uncommmonly delicious, to borrow from the Keebler elves!! My husband’s favorite are chocolate chip cookies so I’ll have to give these a shot.
Wow- these look gorgeous. I’m a longtime fan of the Best Big Fat Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie on allrecipes, but your photo looks yummy enough to persuade me to try these!
I have yet to branch out from my typical chocolate chip cookie recipe and try these, but I really need to – they look SO GOOD!
Thanks for the recipe! These were great, made them last night and they were a huge hit!
Dear Annie’s Eats,
My fiance and I would really appreciate it if you could stop posting dessert recipes. We are trying to stay in shape for our wedding.
Love,
WF & Amy of http://www.thefrenchkitchen.wordpress.com
OMG your last two posts have looked extremely delicious. I want to try them right away!! We are practicing some serious restraint until after the wedding, but I guarantee as soon as it’s over, I’ll be cranking out some of your tasty desserts! Yummy!!
these look fabulous! i’ll be trying these soon! its been awhile since i’ve made plain choc chip cookies!
I made the peanut butter cookies from a few blog posts ago and I loved them. These cc cookies are next on my list.
Thanks, Annie!
judy
I love how the chocolate chips sit on top of the cookies after being baked. Very cool.
Thanks for the great recipe. I’m not much of a baker (understatement!), but these turned out so good, I actually wrote about them on my blog. I included links to your site. I hope that’s okay!
Hi Annie! Lurker here just to tell you that we made these last night and they were fantastic! My 3 year old had to sprinkle halloween sprinkles all over the top but they were still really tasty!
I agree, this is one heck of an amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe. I made it recently with dark chocolate chips and my husband could not stop eating them.
Just made these… yes, they are great!
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Great recipe. I’ve been searching for a while for a great soft and chewy chocolate chip recipe, and I think I found it!
These look really good,i made cookies earlier dont get me wrong they werent bad they were good I just wanted something a little thicker and able to melt in my mouth.I’ll be sure to try out this recipe hope its good!
I made these yesterday and they were great! So good, I ate eight….yeah they are that good.
I did cut down on the chocolate chips, I used about 3/4 cup of mini chips. I used a small cookie scoop and froze them – thinking this would slow me down – it didn’t work – I cooked three today. And they cooked up fine from frozen.
A word of caution – watch them carefully in the oven and don’t over bake or they will be very crisp when they cool down. Still good, but crispy, crunchy.