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The best easy chocolate chip cookies recipe! Make classic chocolate chip cookies from scratch as a delicious dessert for any occasion.
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Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
If you want to make the absolute best chocolate chip cookies, this is the recipe for you!
This simple, classic chocolate chip cookie recipe is easy to make and always a crowd favorite. It’s the perfect recipe for a family dessert, bake sale, special occasion, or lazy Sunday.
These cookies have a tasty crunch and are loaded with chocolate chips. They’re also fun to customize if you like to add nuts (walnuts, pecans, etc.) or more chocolate to your cookies.
This is a straightforward recipe for 2 dozen chocolate chip cookies — one that’s fail-proof and delicious.
Just 10 minutes of prep and 10 minutes in the oven and you will have the best chocolate chip cookies ever!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1.5 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips
Kitchen Tools You Might Find Helpful
How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies from Scratch
- MAKE BATTER: Combine ingredients to make cookie batter. Fold in chocolate chips.
- SCOOP: Use a cookie scoop or large spoonfuls to drop batter onto a baking sheet.
- BAKE: Bake for 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown.
Additions & Substitutions
- Nuts: If you like some extra crunch in your cookies, add ½ cup of walnuts or pecans.
- Oatmeal: Add ½ cup of oatmeal for a chewier twist to these cookies.
- Chocolate chunks: If you prefer your cookies with chocolate chunks (instead of chocolate chips) swap them out for the same amount.
Kitchen Tips
- Take the cookies out of the oven when they are just barely golden brown around the edges. Leaving them in for longer will cause the bottom of the cookies to become too crunchy.
- When adding your hot water and baking soda together, make sure that your water is hot to the touch and that the baking soda completely dissolves. Try stirring it with a whisk or fork to help it dissolve.
- Skip the mixer. You can easily make this recipe by stirring it with a spoon so that you don’t have to get out your mixer.
- Try our Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies for the easiest chocolate chip recipe ever!
- Don’t feel like heating up your oven? Give my air fryer chocolate chip cookies a try.
More Easy Cookie Recipes
- Peanut Butter Blossoms
- Lemon Cake Mix Cookies
- No-Bake Nutella Cookies
- Andes Mint Cookies
- Old-fashioned No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies
- Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies
- Italian Anise Cookies
Recipe
4.66 from 41 votes
Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Author: Jaclyn
Prep: 10 minutes mins
Cook: 10 minutes mins
Total: 20 minutes mins
The best easy chocolate chip cookies recipe! Make classic chocolate chip cookies from scratch as a delicious dessert for any occasion.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter softened
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon hot water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¼ cups chocolate chips
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or a silicone liner and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together the butter, brown sugar, white sugar until smooth. Add in the egg and vanilla and mix until just combined.
In a small bowl, add 1 tsp hot water and then stir in the baking soda until dissolved. Add this to the batter and then stir in the salt and flour until just combined.
Fold in the chocolate chips.
Drop large spoonfuls of batter (around 2 tablespoons in size) onto an ungreased baking sheet.
Bake for 10 minutes, or until the edges are barely golden brown. Let cool for 2-3 on the baking sheet then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Notes
- If you like some extra crunch in your cookies, add ½ cup of walnuts or pecans.
- Add ½ cup of oatmeal for a chewier twist to these cookies.
- If you prefer your cookies with chocolate chunks (instead of chocolate chips) swap them out for the same amount.
- Take the cookies out of the oven when they are just barely golden brown around the edges. Leaving them in for longer will cause the bottom of the cookies to become too crunchy.
- When adding your hot water and baking soda together, make sure that your water is hot to the touch and that the baking soda completely dissolves. Try stirring it with a whisk or fork to help it dissolve.
- Feel free to skip the mixer. You can easily make this recipe by stirring it with a spoon so that you don’t have to get out your mixer.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 140kcal
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