Simply the best, better than all the rest.
Be prepared to throw away every other Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe you have tried – because this one, my friends – is a panty dropper. Can I say that? Damn straight I can – If Dan made me these cookies himself he would have a 10/10 chance to gettin’ lucky tonight. Unfortunately, he did not. So no goodie-goodie for him, but allllll the chocolate chunk cookies for me.
You snooze, you lose.
Back to these COOKIES!! For over a decade I have tried various chocolate chip cookie recipes, and last year I landed on one that took the cookie cake. Gooey, chewy, super-soft and with a barely there crisp to the edge. They fluff up in the oven, and collapse into its chewy center once pulled out – YUM!!!
MUST-DO for perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies, every time!!
- Use a cookie scoop! This ensures that your cookies are all an equal size, and will result in evenly cooked cookies! My favorite –
- Whip’ up that butter, sugar, vanilla + eggs until light + fluffy
- FLUFF that flour before you add it into the measuring cup, just stir it with a fork a bit so it is not heavy
- DO NOT over mix the flour when added – just enough to incorporate
- DO NOT over bake!! These cook for 9-11 minutes, and will be so soft you will swear they are raw. They are not! They finish cooking while cooling
Let’s Bake!
Chocolate Chunk Cookies
- 2 sticks unsalted butter, @ room temp
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 3 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 2 XL Hershey Dark Chocolate Bars, chopped (roughly 1 1/4 heaping cup)
- A few extra dark chocolate chips to decorate
➖With a mixer, beat together the butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs until light and fluffy.
➖Add the flour, baking soda, and salt
KEY: Fluff the flour in your bag with a fork before scooping with measuring cup ✔️
➖Mix everything together for just a few seconds until the flour mixture is JUST barely combined, and dump in the chopped chocolate chunks
➖Finally, mix a bit more until chunks are scattered throughout
Stop there! Do not over mix
➖Preheat oven to 350*
➖Scoop 1.5 Tbsp worth of dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet
(I use an @OXO medium cookie scoop)
➖Top each cookie dough ball with an extra chocolate chip or two + a sprinkle of sea salt
➖BAKE for 9-11
➖PULL OUT no later than 11 minutes – they will be SUPER soft, and will set a bit more
Here is the cookie scoop I use, in the medium size – this is such a nice tool to ensure your cookies will bake evenly because they are all the same size!