I am forever on the quest to find the “perfect” chocolate chip cookie. Does such mythical creature even exists? Well, to be honest I am not sure! But I do know I have found/modified recipes over the years and each time I feel I get a little closer.
I have tried countless recipes and each time I think I’ve found it, but then I’ll do a few more modifications find a new base recipe and bam, another new epic recipe!
If you love CHEWY and SOFT chocolate chip cookies THIS is the recipe for you. My sister is always my best critic when it comes to my recipes and she is QUITE the fan of this recipe.
This recipe is pretty easy! I would like to say, don’t shortcut step 3. I know it seems excessive to have to cream the butter and sugar for 5 minutes but you want to do this to properly cream the butter and sugar. You want that air in the butter to help with your cookie texture!
To keep this post simple I’ve just added a galley with the step images. Hopefully this helps with visuals.
Creaming butter and sugar
This is what the butter and sugar should look like, “fluffed”
Slowly add in flour into butter mixture
Mix in chocolate chips
Place rounded tablespoons of dough on a cookie sheet
Voila! Amazing chewy chocolate chip cookies!
What are you gonna need?
Glad you asked! You will need the following to make these amazingly soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies:
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup + 2 tbsp granulated (white) sugar
- 1 1/4 cup dark brown sugar
- 1 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- 3 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 2 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (or 1 bag)
LEt’s get Bakin’:
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 340F
Step 2
Sift/whisk together the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda and baking powder)
Step 3
Cream together butter and sugars on medium speed until it is very light and fluffy. This process normally takes about 5 mins. You will need to pause a couple of times to scrape the sides of the bowl.
Step 4
Add egg and egg yolk one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
Step 5
Mix in vanilla.
Step 6
Slowly mix in dry ingredients to butter/sugar mixture. I typically do this in 3 additions.
Step 7
Stir in chocolate chips.
Step 8
Scoop tablespoon size of dough and roll out. Place dough balls on un-greased cookie sheets. I typically use parchment paper on the cookie sheet for easy clean-up.
Step 9
Bake 8 to 10 minutes at 340F. I like my cookies to be light brown on the bottom, cooking at this lower temperature helps to achieve that. If your oven cooks cool you may want to increase the temperature some.
If you make this recipe or have suggestions on modifications, let me know! I’d love to hear your thoughts/inputs!
I can’t wait for you to try this perfectly delicious chewy and soft chocolate chip cookie recipe!
If you are craving something a little faster but still want chocolate, oh and want to add that heavenly substance known as peanut butter, try my super easy no-bake oatmeal cookie recipe!