Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Today on Crispybake Kitchen, we’re making some delicious chewy chocolate chip cookies. So let’s get started.

Ingredients

• 2½ cups or 300 grams of all-purpose flour (optional: sub some bread flour for chewier cookies, about 1 cup)
• ¾ teaspoon of baking soda
• ¾ teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup or 226 grams of unsalted room temperature butter (optional: some or all can be brown butter)
• ¾ cup or 165 grams of light brown sugar
• ½ cup or 100 grams of regular granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons of cornstarch (optional, for soft cookies)
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
• 1 large room temperature egg
• 1½ cups or 270 grams of semi-sweet chocolate chips (optional: chocolate chunks, bittersweet, M&Ms, nuts, total 1½ cups mix-ins)
• A few chocolate chips (optional, for topping)
• A light sprinkle of flake sea salt (optional, for topping)

Instructions

1. Preparing the dry ingredients

First off, in a large bowl and adding two and a half cups or 300 grams of all-purpose flour. If you wanted a chewier chocolate chip cookie, you could sub in some bread flour, which has a higher protein content. That would be about a cup. To puff things up, three quarters of a teaspoon of baking soda, and you’ll notice my oven isn’t on yet. If you want, you could scoop and bake these right away, but chilling your dough will hydrate the flour and give you a better texture, better flavor, and the cookies won’t spread as much. But they’re still delicious if you bake them right away, just like our perfectly gooey chocolate chip cookies without dough chilling. We need a little bit of contrast here, and three quarters of a teaspoon of salt will do it. Chocolate chip cookies seem like a timeless classic, but they were actually invented in 1938 by Ruth Wakefield. From the Toll House in, that’s where Toll House cookies get their name, and thank you, Ruth. These are delicious. Grab a whisk. Our scale’s done. Give it a whisk. By the way, if you like my videos, go ahead and hit that subscribe button. There’s two new recipes every single week. Set this aside,

2. Creaming the butter and sugars

and now we’re going to grab a stand mixer with a paddle attachment, or you could use a hand mixer and a large bowl of that’s what you want. These cookies will have a lovely texture and richness from butter, one cup or 226 grams of unsalted room temperature butter. You’ll notice that it is soft enough that I can use my finger to indent fairly easily. If the butter is too hard, it won’t mix right. So go ahead and microwave it at half power if you need to in like five or ten second bursts until it’s just right. You don’t want it melted though. Plop that butter into your mixer. By the way, you do not have to bake all of your chocolate chip cookies right away. You could have them rolled out, chilled and frozen, and then you can just defrost them when you want to make some cookies on demand. If you’re looking for a quick treat, try our easy edible chocolate chip cookie dough recipe. Highly recommended. I’m adding three quarters of a cup or 165 grams of light brown sugar. The brown sugar has some molasses in it, and it has a bit more moisture, a lovely caramel flavor, and just gives you a lot. We’re not going to use all brown sugar though because if we did, the cookies would spread too much. Overspreading happens when you use too much sugar. You don’t use enough flour or your oven was too cold. If you put the cookies into a cold oven, the edges will just keep spreading. The hot oven makes the edges set. To complete our sugar duo, half a cup of regular granulated sugar, 100 grams. Alright, we’re going to beat this on medium now for about five minutes until it is light and fluffy. You can scrape the bowl down as needed. I would recommend that at least one time. Or more, if some random butter clumps just went to the top of your bowl right away. By the way, if you wanted to have soft chocolate chip cookies, add two tablespoons of cornstarch right into the dry mixture and just mix it up. If that’s the secret to a bakery-style cookie, I like mine crisp and chewy, so I will not be doing that, but these are your cookies, so do a jewel. So these cookies are going to be delicious, but in this bowl I have some magical brown butter. Brown butter is as butter you cook on a cooktop until you get some nice color on it. I have a blog post on it if you want the full instructions, but it has a lovely, nutty, rich flavor. So you would have sub in some or all of the butter for brown butter, and this will be a delicious herb.

3. Adding vanilla and egg

It’s been about five minutes, so I’m going to add in one tablespoon of vanilla extract, lovely flavor, and one large room temperature egg. If your egg is too cold, that will affect how the batter mixes together, and it’s not the best. Definitely scrape the bowl down, and if you’re not an expert egg cracker, go ahead and crack it into a separate bowl or measuring cup to make sure there’s no shells. Mix, mix. Mix it up until it’s just combined. Really, that scraped down was not optional. You need to do it. That looks great.

4. Incorporating the flour

With your mixer on low, we’re going to gradually add in the flour. You do not want to over-mix the flour because that will give you a tough cookie. We want soft or chewy. Scrape your bowl down.

5. Mixing to almost combined

Right, we’re going to look for this being almost combined. You could have some streaks of flour because the chocolate chips still have to go in. That looks fine. Not totally mixed. It looks a bit shaggy, but once the chocolate chips or whatever mix you’re using are in and combined. This will be perfect. I’m taking my paddle off because I’m going to finish mixing this by hand.

6. Stirring in chocolate chips

Now for the star, I’m using one and a half cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips. You could use chocolate chunks. You could use bitter sweet. It’s totally up to you. Everything’s going to be fine. That’s 270 grams, by the way. I’m going to stir this in by hand and just get it all distributed. This is so nothing is overmixed and it takes so little time. It’s too easy to let your mixer run and then just toughen the dough up. This is your final opportunity to find any unmixed nonsense. Take a look at the bottom and if there’s some powdery bits, just mix them in. This looks great. It smells great.

7. Scooping and chilling the dough

We’re going to scoop this up now. I’m using a one and a half tablespoon sized scoop. You could go up to a quarter cup scoop if you want those bakery-style cookies that will increase the bake time. Plop that on. These chocolate chip cookies are classic and delicious, but you could have added some mixins to make them your own. You could use chocolate chunks, M&Ms. Nuts. It’s totally up to you. The only rule is you want one and a half cups of mixins in total. So if I wanted to, I could have subbed in a half a cup or one cup of my mixins for the chocolate chips. Just don’t add too much because that’ll change the ratios and your cookies won’t bake up as nicely. And once this is done, you’re going to either pop this into the oven or chill it. I’m chilling the dough. You can go into the fridge for as little as an hour or up to three days. Just make sure you cover this so it doesn’t dry out. Into the fridge and we’ll be right back.

8. Baking and finishing touches

Towards the end of your chill time, preheat your oven to 350 and before these guys go into the oven, you have the optional step of adding. A few chocolate chips on top is a finishing touch. They’re just going to be glossy and really visible on those cookies. Very optional, but I love adding a light sprinkle of flake sea salt on top. So delicious, like a little crunchy salty moment to balance the sweetness. I chilled my dough so these are going to bake for 13 to 15 minutes in the oven. If you didn’t chill them, 12 to 14. And the lower bake time isn’t to be for a gooey or slightly underdone cookie, which is how I like them.

Finished Cookies

Here you go. These cookies won’t last long, but if you have extras, you can store them in an airtight container in the last four up to five days. Fresh out of the oven, gooey, chewy and delicious. These cookies have such a nice texture, crunch on the outside, soft and gooey on the inside, lots of chocolate and just plain delicious. I hope you get a chance to make these easy cookies. And if you like my videos, hit that subscribe button and check out my cookie playlist.