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This Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe is my favorite. It always comes out chewy and thick, and it always has the perfect balance between the sweet brown sugar base and the chocolate chips.
There is a reason that no matter how many new chocolate chip cookie recipes I try, I always return to this one. This Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe is my favorite. It always comes out chewy, it always comes out thick and it always has the perfect balance between the sweet brown sugar base and the chocolate chips. And I ALWAYS get tons of compliments.
For the chewiest, thickest cookies possible, you should chill the batter, but I was impatient, so the cookies you see here went straight from the mixer to the oven!
Speaking of mixers…this batter gives my Kitchenaid stand mixer a run for its money. It is thick. So thick that an ex-boyfriend of mine, who shall not be named, burned out my hand mixer trying to make these cookies for his graduate student friends. I was annoyed.
Never mind the fact that I had broken up with him several weeks prior to this “Chocolate Chip Cookie Incident” and he snuck into my condo while I was out of town with his spare key that he “forgot” to give back. And then thought I wouldn’t notice.
He clearly learned nothing in the 3 years we dated…I notice EVERYTHING!
Moving on….
What you should take away from this story [besides the obvious adage that you must date a lot of toads before you meet your prince charming] is that these cookies are so good, my Ex tried to reproduce them himself because his Grad School friends were that obsessed.
No other cookie would do. True story.
Oh…and I changed my locks…
But the fact remains that these are my favorite chewy chocolate chip cookies. There is something comforting about them. Maybe it’s because I’ve been making them since middle school. Maybe it’s because they taste like memories. Or maybe it’s the brown sugar and chewy texture, I even use the same concept for my double chocolate chip cookies and my pumpkin chocolate chip cookies! They are that awesome.
My Favorite Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie
Ingredients
- 3 ¼ cups All purpose flour
- 1 cup Cake Flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ cups butter slightly softened
- 1 ¼ cups light brown sugar packed
- 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs 100g
- 1 ½ Tablespoons vanilla
- 12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375°. Combine the flour, cake flour, baking soda and baking power; set aside.
- Combine butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar, and beat until creamy. Add eggs one at a time and beat after each addition. Then beat in vanilla.
- Slowly add flour mixture until well mixed (5-7 additions); then stir in chips.
- Make large balls of dough (approximately the size of half a lemon) if you are baking them now, or smaller balls if you are going to freeze them and bake them later.
- Bake at 375° for 13.5 minutes or until the outsides have browned but the centers still look soft. My cookies do not look done when I remove them from the oven. Cool for 10 minutes on the cookie sheet and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
Nutrition
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Hi
In your directions step 1 you say “Preheat your oven to 375°. Combine the flour, cake flour, baking soda, baking power, and salt; set aside.” You include SALT in this but in your ingredient list you don’t list salt. So I’m a little confused. Do you put salt in this cookie recipe and if so, how much?
I just want my cookies to come out as perfect as yours and therefore don’t want to miss any pertinent ingredients.
Thanks
Hi Courtney, Great catch! I’m so sorry about that. I’ve updated the recipe so that you can pull it up and see it all together. I use a teaspoon or 4 grams of kosher salt. I am sure your cookies will be delightful! I’ve been making these since high school but I didn’t add salt until college. 🙂 Happy baking!
hi! what happens if i cut the sugar?
Hi!
Just want to make sure I’m reading this correctly…is it 4 1/4 cups of flour total and only one bag of chocolate? That doesn’t seem like a lot of chocolate, however, the pictures look like they have a good amount of chocolate in each :).
Just want to make sure that is correct! Can’t wait to try these and the Johnny ones I just saw on your site!
Hi Kim! It is one bag – I usually use the 11.5oz bag of Ghirradeli semi-sweet or I use the same sized bag of semi-sweet Guittard (my current favorite). The good thing about chocolate chips is that you add them at the end, so if you feel like you want more chocolate in every bite, go ahead and add in more! I also put some on top of each cookie for the photos 🙂
These and Johnny’s are my favorites! Happy baking!