The Best Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Rate Now
Jump to RecipeJump to VideoPrint Recipe

The Best Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe – An easy chocolate chip cookie recipe made in minutes. These are the best homemade chocolate chip cookies ever!

1 of the best chocolate chip cookies cooling on a rack

There’s nothing better than chocolate chip cookies from scratch!  A warm, fresh chocolate chip cookie with a big glass of milk is comfort food at it’s finest.

I’ve tried a lot of chocolate chip cookie recipes over the years.  I keep finding that many of the recipes have at least one long wait time.  They require you to either wait a couple of hours to bring the butter and eggs to room temperature, or wait for the dough to chill in the refrigerator for an hour.  Sometimes both.

I’m too impatient! 🙂  I want to be able to relax on my couch and suddenly decide I need some homemade, soft, and chewy chocolate chip cookies.  Then, have them baking in the oven in just a few minutes!

3 of the best homemade chocolate chip cookies on a plate

 

What makes this the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe?

  • Texture:  The cookies are soft in the middle and chewy around the edges.
  • Flavor: They have a sweet, buttery, toffy-like cookie flavor, loaded with chocolate chips.
  • Quick & Easy to make: No bringing the ingredients to room temperature.  No chilling the dough. The recipe can easily be whisked together, instead of using a mixer.  And, it’s a ONE BOWL recipe.

How to make chocolate chip cookies. The easy way.

  • In a large bowl, add melted butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar.
  • Whisk until well combined.

Melted butter, brown sugar, and sugar in a mixing bowl to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch

  • Add eggs and vanilla.
  • Whisk until eggs are well incorporated.

The wet ingredients in a bowl for the best chocolate chip cookie recipe

  • Add flour, baking soda, and salt.

Dry ingredients on top of the wet ingredients for an easy chocolate chip cookie recipe

  • Stir until no dry flour remains.
  • Add chocolate chips.

Chocolate chips being poured into batter for easy chocolate chip cookies

  • Stir until well incorporated.

1 ½ tablespoon scoop getting chocolate chip cookie dough out of a bowl

  • Scoop the batter onto a baking sheet.

Scoop dropping chocolate chip cookie dough onto a baking sheet

  • Bake and cool.

Batch of the best easy chocolate chip cookies recipe cooling on a rack

Try these other Easy Dessert Recipes.

Watch the step by step recipe video below for how to make The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie.

Find more of my recipes on TikTok

3 of the best homemade chocolate chip cookies on a plate

The Best Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

4.99 from 84 votes
The Best Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe - An easy chocolate chip cookie recipe made in minutes. These are the best homemade chocolate chip cookies ever!
Prep Time 12 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 22 minutes

Video

Servings 39 cookies
Calories 164 kcal

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup unsalted butter -melted*
  • 1 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups (a 12 oz. bag) semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  • In a large bowl, add the melted butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar. Whisk until well combined.
  • Add the eggs and vanilla. Whisk until smooth.
  • Add the flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir until no dry flour remains.
  • Add the chocolate chips. Stir until well incorporated.
  • Scoop out 1 ½ tablespoon size balls (a #40 scoop) of the batter on a baking sheet, leaving 2 inches between each cookie. SIZE MATTERS.**
  • Bake for 10 minutes. The center should be soft and the edges should barely be golden. DO NOT OVER BAKE.
  • Cool 3-4 minutes on the cookie sheet. Then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

Notes

*I melt the butter in the large microwave safe mixing bowl that I make the cookie dough in so it truly stays a one bowl recipe.
**The cook time is based on using 1 ½ level tablespoons (from a #40 scoop) of dough in the shape of a scoop (or ball) for each cookie. If the amount of dough is different, the baking time will be off. Use a #40 scoop and scrape it up the side of the bowl to easily level off the dough. Or, use 1 ½ level tablespoons of dough and roll the dough into a ball.
I highly recommend using a #40 scoop for this.  It makes the cookie making process so fast and easy.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 164kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 94mg | Potassium: 73mg | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 165IU | Calcium: 14mg | Iron: 1mg
Course Dessert
Keyword Best chocolate chip cookies recipe, chocolate chip cookie recipe, Easy chocolate chip cookies recipe
Cuisine American
Author Amanda Finks
Want more recipes?
Sign up here to have new recipes sent directly to your inbox.
newsletter signup

Leave a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Comments

  1. 5 stars
    Quick, easy, DELICIOUS! I always double. I often used dark chocolate chips, and when using chocolate chips, I add a couple of tbsp. of espresso powder. I have also substituted 20% (1 cup for my doubled recipe; 1/2 cup as written) oat, almond, hazelnut, or pecan flour. I’ve tried other extracts, and other flavor chips (butterscotch, peanut butter, Andes Candies Crumbles) with excellent results. Toasted macadamia nuts and coconut, with dark chocolate chips are my FAVORITE! This has become my go-to cookie base!

  2. 4 stars
    I’ve made these twice and they are very good. I love the buttery flavor. However, neither time did mine turn out fluffy.

  3. Hi
    These were really good cookies, the only thing is, I didn’t think they tasted like chocolate chip cookies. The only thing we did different was we used milk chocolate chips instead of semi-sweet. the cookies tasted like chocolate chip toffee cookies for some reason. They also turned out very flat, but they were chewy! They are really tasty and we will likely make them again, they just don’t taste like traditional chocolate chip cookies.

    1. Umm, maybe if you used semi-sweet chocolate chips like the recipe calls for, you’d come out with the “traditional” chocolate cookie flavor you’re looking for!? Funny how following the recipe really can make all the difference in the outcome. Who’da think it?

  4. 5 stars
    I make chocolate chip cookies from different recipes because they just don’t empress me after im done cooking those cookies, But this will be the one i keep all my family and I are in LOVE with these the recipe is easy and oh so good!!!!! I made a little change iwas out of brown sugar so i had to add 2 tablespoons of molasses to each cup of sugar to make brown sugar

  5. 5 stars
    The best easy chocolate chip cookies recipe ever!!! Look nowhere else, try this recipe is easy, quick and delicious!

  6. 5 stars
    This recipie is amaaazing. I just added a mixture of walnuts+semisweet+white chocolate and it turned out great. Thanx for sharing the recipie

  7. 5 stars
    I’m not much of a baker and I definitely can’t cook, so I think it says something that I’ve made these 3 times now and always get great reactions! I shared my latest batch with a cookie enthusiast friend who said it was in his top 3 best chocolate chip cookies 🙂
    I think the trick is not letting the thickness of the dough discourage you from adding all the flour at the end. These always turn out thick and fluffy and chewy, and I think it’s the flour. At the end of it, after the two cups of flour, it gets really thick and it almost seems like you can skip the last half cup, but I’d just trust the recipe because they turn out great every time.
    I add maybe 1/3 of the chocolate chips it asks for though! And I’m pretty sure I make my cookies bigger than it suggests, so my cooking times vary a bit.

  8. I made these. The taste and texture us awesome but how i do stop them from sticking to the pan. Where i have to destroy them just to get them out the pan.

    1. Oh wow! I’m surprised. My cookies always slide right off the cookie sheet because there is so much butter in them. 🙂 But, if you’re having a problem with cookies sticking to your cookie sheets, line the cookie sheets with parchment paper before you add your cookie dough.

      1. The best way to remove cookies is to let them cool a couple minutes then they can easily be removed without sticking.

    2. You can use oil spray, I always use it even on non sticking cookie sheet. Or spread some cooking oil then dust it with some flour, remove them with your hand not with water.

  9. Could you use dark brown sugar rather than running to the store that’s what I’ve got?

    1. Yes. Dark brown sugar would be a good substitute for the light brown sugar in this recipe. You will still end up with a nice soft chewy center with a slightly crisp edge.

About Amanda Finks

I’m a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist living in Zionsville, IN. I’m an avid cook, travel nerd, & lover of good food! I’m trained in Food Science & recipe development. It’s my mission to bring you the BEST recipes your whole family will love!

Read more