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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

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This recipe for The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies has been my go-to favorite for years. It’s made extra special with the use of chopped chocolate, three types of sugar, and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.

This recipe for The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies has been my go-to favorite for years. It's made extra special with the use of chopped chocolate, three types of sugar, and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.Let’s talk about chocolate chip cookies. Everyone and their mom has their own chocolate chip cookie recipe, but as we all know, some chocolate chip cookies are just plain better than others. Whether you’re a warn-and-gooey person, a chewy person, or a hard-and-crunchy person, everyone’s got their favorite. Personally, I’m a crunchy-on-the-outside-but-barely-cooked-on-the-inside person. I love that chewy ooey gooeyness of a chocolate chip cookie.

Finding the perfect recipe though, was quite the challenge. I’ve made well over a thousand chocolate chip cookies in my lifetime, searching for that perfect chocolate chip cookie (or CCC, as I’ve so affectionately named it). My favorite CCC is from the amazing blog Not Without Salt. As the blog name indicates, these cookies have a sprinkling of sea salt, but they are also chewy, crunchy, gooey, oozey, and most importantly, chocolately.


This recipe for The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies has been my go-to favorite for years. It's made extra special with the use of chopped chocolate, three types of sugar, and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.
What I think puts them over the top is the chocolate. In this recipe, do yourself a favor and buy some high quality chocolate and chop it up. NO CHOCOLATE CHIPS. Yes, I promise, it’s worth the extra effort. Soooo worth it.

This recipe for The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies has been my go-to favorite for years. It's made extra special with the use of chopped chocolate, three types of sugar, and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.

Now, here’s my step-by-step method for how I make these cookies. Pictures and all! I want you to be able to replicate these babies to be able to taste how absolutely sinful they are. Okay? No shortcuts here. Let’s get started.

Start off by getting your softened butter and your sugars (this recipe uses brown, white, and Turbinado) into the bowl of your stand mixer or a sturdy bowl if your using a hand-held mixer. Let’s talk about softened butter. I usually have a pack of butter on my counter all the time for whenever I need softened butter, but when I’m in a pinch, I put the butter into the microwave (still in the wrappers) in five-second increments, turning the butter on a different face every ten seconds, feeling to see when it’s suitable softened. You should be able to lightly press your finger in the butter and get a dent, but it shouldn’t collapse on you. Got it? Softened butter is a big deal around here. Your cookies won’t turn out right if it’s not softened enough.

Now beat it! I like using my Beater Blade, which scrapes down the sides of the bowl for me, so I can go do other things while the butter and sugar beat. If you don’t have one, do the prep in advance and scrape down often. Get them to be well incorporated, so that the sugar has completely integrated with the butter.

Now, mix in your eggs one at a time and add in the vanilla. Mix together thoroughly between each egg.

Now, here’s the important part: dry ingredients. These need to be whisked together before they are added to the dough, because they need to be evenly distributed throughout the dough without overmixing. Add it all at once and gently combine…

…But don’t overcombine! Doing so will be the downfall of your cookies. Resist the temptation, please.

Next, mix in your whopping one-pound of delicious, melty chocolate chunks. Again, please don’t overmix, for the sake of your delicious cookies.

Now, scoop scoop scoop! Fill your pans with cookie dough balls, get out your fanciest salt (I use the above fleur de sel, which is worth every penny in my opinion, but I’ve used plain old sea salt or even kosher salt and the cookies still taste fabulous) and give the cookies a tiny sprinkle.

Beautiful! Look what you’ve created. Now get these babies in the oven and don’t hesitate to grab one hot off the pan to taste your handiwork. Enjoy!

This recipe for The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies has been my go-to favorite for years. It's made extra special with the use of chopped chocolate, three types of sugar, and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.

The photo for this recipe were updated in April 2015. Despite the chocolate chips on top of the cookies, I wholeheartedly recommend using chopped chocolate in these. The cookies above used chopped chocolate and only chocolate chips to garnish. Sorry for the seeming hypocrisy!

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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie


  • Author: Rachel Conners
  • Prep Time: 10
  • Cook Time: 12
  • Total Time: 22 minutes
  • Yield: 3 -4 dozen 1x
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Ingredients

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  • 2 sticks (8 oz). unsalted butter, softened
  • ¼ cup white sugar
  • ¼ cup  turbinado sugar
  • 1 ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt
  • 1 pound chocolate (the best quality you can afford, chopped into 1/2 in. chunks)

Instructions

  1. Cream the butter and the sugars until light and fluffy. Scrape down the side of the bowl. Continue mixing while adding the eggs one at time. Make sure each egg is incorporated before adding the next. Add the vanilla. Scrape down the bowl with a spatula. Combine the flour, soda and salt in another bowl. With a whisk, stir to combine. With the machine on low, slowly add the flour. Mix until just combined, taking care not to over mix. With a spatula fold in the chocolate.
  2. If you choose, and I recommend that you do, sprinkle a very fine dusting of good quality sea salt. I was Maldon sea salt.
  3. Bake at 360*F for 12 minutes. They should be lightly golden on the outside but still look gooey on the inside.

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Recipe from Not Without Salt

  • Category: cookies
  • Cuisine: dessert

Keywords: chocolate chip, cookies, dessert, chocolate

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  1. Abigail says

    April 20, 2015 at 7:24 am

    This looks totally scrumptious! The cookies look tender and luscious! Pinned. :)

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  2. Catherine says

    April 20, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    Dear Rachel, these cookies are beautiful…they sound so wonderful too. These would make lovely gifts. I never get tired of baking chocolate chip cookies. There are so many ways to make and enjoy them. This is a must-try. xo, Catherine

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  3. Kathy Mader says

    April 27, 2015 at 7:13 pm

    This looks great. But in the pictures you show chocolate chips! LOL!

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    • Rachel says

      April 27, 2015 at 7:17 pm

      Hahaha I know – so hypocritical but the chocolate chips were only used on top, the insides were all chocolate chunks :) the pictures were updated long after the post was initially written but I didn’t want to change the writing of my original post! I am still a very firm believer in chocolate chunks :)

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  4. Isabela says

    May 16, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    Hello,
    These cookies look delicious!! I wonder if I could replace the turbinado sugar by demerara sugar? Or even brown sugar.
    Thank you!!!

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    • Rachel says

      May 17, 2015 at 8:50 am

      Hi Isabela, absolutely! I’ve never tried demerara in these cookies but I’m sure it would work – and brown sugar definitely would. Enjoy!

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  5. George H says

    November 14, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    1lb of flour coupled with 1lb of chocolate and 1lb of sugar. Plus butter.

    Kind of rich.

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  6. Emily says

    November 30, 2017 at 12:21 pm

    Just double checking the brown sugar amount? 1 and 3/4? So in total 2 1/4 cup of sugars. Your picture shows a much less amount of brown sugar and the batter looks loose. With just butter and the sugar mine is in a very dense lob. I’m thinking there might be a typo in the amount of brown sugar? But I could be completely wrong.

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    • Rachel says

      December 1, 2017 at 9:49 am

      Hi Emily, no that’s the correct amount, you can reduce for a less sweet version.

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      • Emily White says

        January 16, 2018 at 3:12 pm

        Thank you! I used that amount of sugar and they turned out great!!!

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        • Rachel says

          January 16, 2018 at 5:56 pm

          So happy to hear it, enjoy!!

          Reply
  7. niki says

    December 27, 2017 at 9:00 am

    my cookies did not spread as much, but they tasted delicious!!!

    Reply
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