Description
A delicious recipe for soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup butter (softened)
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
- 2 large eggs
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F. If your butter is coming straight from the fridge, microwave it for about 10-12 seconds to barely soften it. I would say use room temperature butter, but when I want cookies, I want them immediately and don’t have time to wait for butter to soften on its own.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the butter, sugars, and eggs and beat using a stand or electric mixer until creamy, about 2 minutes.
- Add flour, baking soda, salt and vanilla and mix just until combined and no streaks of flour remain.
- Stir in chocolate chips, being careful not to overmix. Try not to eat all the cookie dough at this point.
- Scoop and drop onto a cookie sheet, leaving space to spread between each cookie. I usually make my cookies on the large side and do 12 cookies per cookie sheet.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes until the cookies look puffy and just barely start to turn golden brown. Whatever you do, definitely do not overbake these!
- The cookies will stay soft, chewy, and delicious for days. You can refrigerate the dough and make part of a batch one day and the rest of the batch the next day. Or make them all at once and heat up any cookies that make it through to Day 2 (unlikely) for 10-12 seconds in the microwave. They will taste almost like they just came out of the oven.
Notes
- Cookies can be stored in an airtight container for up to a week.
- Dough can be refrigerated for later use.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 11 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cookie
- Calories: 150
- Sugar: 10g
- Sodium: 150mg
- Fat: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 4g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 20g
- Fiber: 1g
- Protein: 2g
- Cholesterol: 30mg