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The best chocolate chip cookie recipe

Published: Jun 14, 2020 · Modified: Oct 7, 2021 by Kata · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads

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This is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe that everyone need in their baking repertoire for rainy Sunday afternoons! Crispy and chewy, gooey and buttery, sweet but very well balanced with some sea salt on top.

Best thing in the recipe is that no special equipment is needed and it comes together in 15 minutes then it’s just a bit of resting time, bake and enjoy!

Chocolate chip cookie recipe

First let’s start with some important notes regarding the ingredients of the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe

  • read the recipe carefully
  • avoid using substitutes unless aware of how to fully reformulate the recipe in order to keep the balance in texture as well as flavours
  • measure your ingredients with the help of a digital kitchen scale

For the cookie

  1. Butter: Use always unsalted as you want to be in control of the quantity of the salt. I am using 82% fat content butter in all my recipes. In this recipe butter either needs to be on room temperature so soft enough to be able to cream with the rest of the ingredients or as I suggest make brown butter first. Brown butter gives the most delicious deepness to the flavours, I highly recommend that you do not skip this extra step
  2. Sugar: For the best results I recommend using a combination of white and brown sugar in this chocolate chip cookie recipe. Their mixture contributes to both taste and texture. If you want to learn about the different types of sugar and how to use them in baking, please read my article in here
  3. Vanilla extract: Avoid using artificial vanilla. There are several great brands for fine, pure vanilla, I use Nielsen massey which I love and really recommend
  4. Egg: Room temperature as always, 1 egg is enough as we do not want a cake like texture
  5. Flour: I find the best cookie recipe needs a mixture of soft (pastry) and hard (bread) flour, they both offer different benefits in terms of texture, alternatively use AP flour If you want to be a Pro when it comes to deciding what type of flour to use in your baking, please read my article in here
  6. Salt: An essential ingredient in most of the dessert recipes. Balances flavour and enhances other ingredients, especially in desserts with chocolate it is a must. Try to sprinkle the baked cookies with some extra sea salt!
  7. Baking soda: Makes to cookie slightly risen, tender and chewy
  8. Chocolate: Use high cocoa content, high quality chocolate which you would anyway enjoy eating on its own and avoid using “baking chocolate”. I am using Valrhona in almost all my recipes
Chocolate chip cookie recipe
Brown butter mixed with sugar and the rest of the ingredients

Now let’s continue with my Top 5 tips regarding the technique of making the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe

It’s a super simple recipe and don’t have to overthink however there are some important notes worth considering to master your Chocolate Chip cookie baking!

1. How not to overmix cookie dough

It’s very important that when you make chocolate chip cookie that you do not overmix the ingredients or it might turn out into a cake like texture. While creaming butter and sugar, it should be mixed only for a minute or two until fully combined and slightly increased in volume. Same applies for mixing the egg in, do not overmix. And finally when adding the dry ingredients it should be fold in with a Rubber spatula just until combined. The final mixture should be easy to handle and form balls out of it however if your butter was too warm, the mixture might be a but runny. Do not add more flour to it, instead place the cookie dough into the fridge for a few minutes.

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Chocolate chip cookie recipe

2. What chocolate to use for this Chocolate chip cookie recipe

Truth is, chocolate chips are usually questionable in quality therefore unless you can buy good quality chocolate chip, I recommend to use your favorite chocolate and chop it into small pieces! Key is to use good quality semi-sweet chocolate that you enjoy eating anyway. In almost all my recipes I use Valrhona that is silky, not too sweet and has the best attributes to bake with it.

Chocolate chip cookie recipe

3. Why chill cookie dough before baking

You will have to chill the cookie dough for at least 1 hour and the main reason behind it is to avoid over-spread, sad looking, flat cookies. The warmer the dough the easier it will spread in the oven and our aim is to achieve thick, crackly surface, fudge cookies. If you don't have an hour to wait, try 15min in the freezer. Regarding the cookies spreading too much or not enough in the oven, there are a couple of trick you can fix the issue, see the next point.

Chocolate chip cookie recipe
Chilled cookie dough ready to bake

4. How to achieve crackly surface on Chocolate chip cookies

First of all please do not use substitutes or reduce the sugar in this recipe as it might result in a completely different texture than my chocolate chip cookies. The sweetness of the cookies is balanced with added salt in the cookie dough and also with salt flakes after baking.

Beyond having a good recipe, it is also about the baking technique. Your chocolate chip cookie dough will naturally spread a bit in the oven, should not spread too much if you chilled it before baking and pre-heated the oven. The cookies will also puff up due to the baking soda added.

Apply the circular trick:

After 11 minutes of baking time take the tray out and grab a large cookie cutter or any round shape thing in your kitchen (slightly larger than the the size of the cookies in the oven). Hold the cookie cutter and make circular movement around the almost baked cookies which will slightly tighten the cookies, make them perfectly round shape and the movement also encourages crinkle forming on top. Incredible easy trick and works! Put the tray back to the oven and repeat the circular movement at the end of the baking time, if necessary.

Apply the tray bang trick

Tray bang trick is around Instagram (it is not my initial idea) , that also encourages crinkle formation on the top of the cookies. It also helps if for some reason your cookies would not spread. Apply similarly as above.

Chocolate chip cookie recipe
Apply the tray bang trick then circular trick
Chocolate chip cookie recipe
Voila! Beautiful crackly cookie surface

5. How to bake chocolate chip cookies

First of all how not to bake chocolate chip cookies? Never bake them without appropriate chilling time which is minimum one hour, the more the better. Why? Because we want to avoid pancake like cookies!

There is one important trick to bake fudge chocolate cookies and it is not to over bake them. I know it is worrying to take them out when they look under baked, but believe me, at the end of the baking time they won’t look done but they are indeed. Let them rest on the parchment paper for a few minutes then carefully remove them to a Cooling rack. They will be very fragile straight out of the oven so be careful while moving them.

Chocolate chip cookie recipe

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Chocolate chip cookie recipe

Chocolate chip cookie

An ideal balance between chewy, crispy, gooey texture loaded with chocolate.
4.97 from 28 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Cook Time: 1 hour
Waiting Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 2 hours
Servings: 12
Calories: 288kcal
Author: Kata

Equipment

  • Electric hand mixer
  • Digital scale
  • Rubber spatula
  • Cooling rack

Ingredients

  • 140 g Unsalted butter to make brown butter
  • 75 g Brown sugar
  • 75 g Granulated sugar
  • 1 Egg
  • 100 g AP flour
  • 100 g Bread flour can be replaced with AP
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1 teaspoon Baking soda
  • 200 g Semi sweet chocolate good quality eg. Valrhona
Metric - US Customary

US customary cup measurement is an indicative figure only. Measure the ingredients with a digital scale by weight (gram). Baking is art but also science which requires precision and accuracy.

Instructions

  • For the best results make 125 g brown butter using 140 g butter as per step 2. If want to skip this step, please jump onto step 3.
  • Heat butter in a saucepan on medium heat, first it will melt then it will foam. It is ready when the white bits on the bottom of the pan will turn into golden brown and it has a nutty smell. Make sure you carefully watch it throughout the process, stir regularly and remove from the heat before it starts burning. Let it cool to room temperature.
  • With an Electric hand mixer mix the browned butter and sugar together just until well combined.
  • Mix in the egg, do not overmix or it will become rather like a cake, not cookie.
  • Sift the two different kinds of flour, salt and baking soda together then add the flour mixture into the dough, fold with Rubber spatula
  • Before the flour mixture fully combined into the dough add in the chocolate chunks or substitute chocolate with hazelnut, almond, pistachio etc.
  • Divide the dough into 10 equal balls (using a Digital scale is handy, approx. 70g each) and place them on parchment paper leaving enough space between them to spread. Do not soften the surface of the ball, in fact try to keep it as rough as possible for a nice, crackly surface. Let them rest in the fridge for an hour or two.
  • Pre-heat oven to 180 C / 356°F
  • Remove the cookie balls from the fridge and Bake the cookies as per following: At 11 minutes take the tray out and bang the tray to the kitchen counter and apply circular movement around them with the help of a cookie cutter (as explained in the Tips section above). Continue to bake for 5 more minutes. Overall the cookies require 16 minutes baking in 180C. The cookies might look under baked however they will set as they cool
  • Sprinkle them with salt flakes to enhance taste

Nutrition

Calories: 288kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 17g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 40mg | Sodium: 352mg | Potassium: 129mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 320IU | Calcium: 30mg | Iron: 2mg
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  1. Karuna Singhania

    January 03, 2021 at 10:03 am

    5 stars
    Lovely recipe.... The taste, texture, colour is amazing...

    Reply
  2. Monika

    January 02, 2021 at 7:26 pm

    5 stars
    The cookies turned out great! The perfect chocolate cookies recipe! recommended😀

    Reply
  3. SS

    December 24, 2020 at 10:48 am

    5 stars
    I made these cookies as a part of the Christmas goodie bag for my friends. They smell and taste so delicious!! Had a hard time saving it from my kids. Only after I promised to bake a batch exclusively for them, did they allow me to give these cookies away! Thank you for the recipe. God bless!

    Reply
  4. Eshani Weerasuriya

    November 27, 2020 at 1:07 pm

    5 stars
    Best Chocolate Chip Cookies I have ever made. Everyone loved them. They were really delicious. And the brown butter played a huge role. It made the cookies taste like heaven. Recommend this recipe to everyone. It’s worth trying.

    Reply
    • admin

      November 29, 2020 at 11:36 am

      Thanks so much for your kind feedback

      Reply
  5. Ece

    November 19, 2020 at 6:07 pm

    5 stars
    I love the taste of brown butter gives to cookies, while you adding butter into sugar whole kitchen smells like caramel! I definitely recommend, everyone should try this recipe 🙂

    Reply
    • admin

      November 20, 2020 at 2:52 pm

      Thanks so happy you love this cookie 🙂

      Reply
  6. Hiba

    November 08, 2020 at 5:36 pm

    5 stars
    The dough is amazing to work with and the smell is heavenly 😍 perfect recipe 👌🏻👌🏻 Thank you so much ...

    Reply
    • admin

      November 11, 2020 at 12:36 pm

      Thank you for baking my cookie:)

      Reply
  7. Marita Budge

    November 08, 2020 at 5:27 pm

    5 stars
    I converted this recipe to gluten free as I'm allergic, and it was probably the best cookie I've ever made!!! The brown butter was amazing, using good quality chocolate that you'd actually eat regularly nade a huge difference. Definitely recommend this to everyone!!

    Reply
    • admin

      November 11, 2020 at 12:36 pm

      So happy for you:)

      Reply
  8. Danika

    November 05, 2020 at 2:12 am

    I just had a little trouble with spreading too much when they were baked. How do I fix it?

    Reply
    • admin

      November 05, 2020 at 4:51 pm

      If you read the post above the recipe card I provide great details on this topic:)

      Reply
  9. Danika

    November 05, 2020 at 2:10 am

    5 stars
    I made these for my boyfriend amd they were so freaking good! I love them and you should definitely try them. Salt sprinkling absolutely does the thing.

    Reply
    • admin

      November 05, 2020 at 4:51 pm

      Thank you!!

      Reply
  10. Simra

    November 02, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    5 stars
    Genuin One of the gooiest cookies ever! Saving this recipe for eternity!

    Reply
    • admin

      November 03, 2020 at 4:52 pm

      Happy that you liked my chocolate chip cookie recipe!

      Reply
  11. Marwa

    November 01, 2020 at 4:24 pm

    Can I add cocoa powder to the mixture ?

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    • admin

      November 01, 2020 at 6:26 pm

      Yes but reduce the flour by equal amount

      Reply
  12. Areti

    September 11, 2020 at 6:56 pm

    5 stars
    These cookies taste of comfort and happiness.
    As the recipe said, I didn't overbake and it was worth it cause even the following days they stayed soft inside. So simple and fun to scoop. Will surely be trying more of Katalins cookie recipes and show off in my stories!

    Reply
    • admin

      September 13, 2020 at 5:46 pm

      Thanks so much for your lovely feedback, so happy that you liked this one! Keep trying some of my other recipes too:)

      Reply
  13. Linda

    September 06, 2020 at 9:20 am

    5 stars
    I have tried so many chocolate chip cookie recipes and this is truly the best! The browned butter and the salt give it an amazing taste, I loved it.

    Reply
    • admin

      September 06, 2020 at 10:46 am

      Thanks for your kindness! I really recommend to try some of my other cookie recipes too eg. the raspberry pistachio is to die for using a very similar base recipe just different topping:)

      Reply
  14. Jenny

    August 29, 2020 at 5:37 pm

    5 stars
    Best cookie recipe ever!! Perfect goo to crisp ratio and the sea salt on top is an absolute game changer. Working my way through all these delicious, well thought out recipes 🧡

    Reply
    • admin

      August 29, 2020 at 6:05 pm

      Thanks for your lovely feedback, I am glad you liked it and yes keep exploring I have some more delicious stuff in here:)!

      Reply
  15. Jupiter

    July 15, 2020 at 7:46 am

    5 stars
    It is amazing. The best chocolate cookie I ever made. The brown butter adds a strong nice flavor 👍

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    • admin

      July 19, 2020 at 8:27 pm

      Thanks for your lovely comment, I am happy the cookies turned out great:)

      Reply
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