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!
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!
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.
- Add eggs and vanilla.
- Whisk until eggs are well incorporated.
- Add flour, baking soda, and salt.
- Stir until no dry flour remains.
- Add chocolate chips.
- Stir until well incorporated.
- Scoop the batter onto a baking sheet.
- Bake and cool.
Try these other Easy Dessert Recipes.
- My Two Ingredient Nutella Brownie Bites Recipe
- My Cranberry Cream Cheese Dip Recipe
- Easy Peanut Butter Cream Pie from Inspire A Creation
- No Bake Oreo Truffles from Fifteen Spatulas
Watch the step by step recipe video below for how to make The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie.
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The Best Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
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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.
This is my first time making any cookies and i went ambitious making cookies from scratch. To my surprise the cookies came out so delicious and good looking! My daughter said they are the best she has ever had. Thank you so much. I followed the recipe exactly and my cookies were done to prefection exactly at 10 mins.
Love this recipe! Super simple instructions and made in one bowl. Never heard that “size matters” when it comes to baking cookies but, after purchasing my first #40 scoop, I could not agree more. Genius! Thanks for sharing such a great recipe with us. I am buying #40 scoops and printing this recipe off for friends to give at Christmas. Everyone I’ve made this for raves about the cookies. The only thing I added was additional chocolate chips — I put in 3 cups or more (at my son’s request). The best ever!
Delicious! Made them this morning with my toddler. We had loads of fun. We brought them to some of the ladies at my office and were an instant hit. My oven took 11 minutes, middle rack, but I use silicon baking mats so that might have made a slight difference.
Just made these and I want to say THANK YOU for this super simple recipe!! Super quick to make and bake! Not only was it delicious but it was great to not have to use a mixer because it was really easy to mix with the whisk and spatula! 😀 Can’t wait for my 5 year old to make these for Santa 😛
Great cookies🏄🏽♀️🍪
I love this recipe I’ve made it several times and it is so good! This time I added 2 tsp of cinnamon as well and it really sent them over the top. It didn’t change the recipe or the cook time either!
I followed the recipe but my dough came out a little runny still.
Easy to make, great picture step by step instructions and they taste delicious!
These are delicious. I used half wheat flour and half AP flour. I also lined cookie sheets and sprayed with cooking spray. Oddly enough approximately 9 mins is what it took if I went to 10 mins they burned. At 9 mins took them out let them rest for a min then racks to cool.
These are really really good. Thank you!
Made these cookies last night and they came out perfect! Thank you for the best quick recipe I have used in a long time!
I put half of the sugar, still came out perfect and tastes awesome! Thank you!!
I love these cookies and have made them several times with no problems… however, the last two times I have made them, they spread out on the pan too much. I don’t understand what I am doing wrong? The taste is great still, but it looks like one ginormous cookie instead of several fluffy cookies. Any suggestions?
Literally best (and easiest) chocolate chip cookies I’ve ever made! Live in high altitude in Colorado – no need to adjust any ingredients or oven temp. That is unusual. These cookies are magic!
I absolutely love this recipe! This is the “go to” from now on!! Thank you for sharing!
Great same day mix and bake cookie recipe. I added some cinnamon, but that’s just a personal preference. Adds an extra layer to the cookie. It would have been good without it too!
Me and my almost 2 y/o son made these together tonight! Not sure why, but every time I make cookies they turn out awful! These turned out SO GOOOD! He’s walking around going “yummmm, mmmmm” 😂book marked this and hope they turn out as good next time!!
Question: have you ever tried using almond flour for these? If so how did they turn out?
I MEANT HOW LONG WOULD THE COOKING BE…
I MADE THESE TODAY AND THEY ARE DELICIOUS. IF I WANT TO MAKE THEM LARGER IN SIZE TO BE USED FOR ICE CREAM SANDWICHES, HOW LOW WOULD THE COOKING BE AND WHAT SIZE SCOOP WOULD YOU RECOMMEND?
Love a good recipe for cookies, will try this soon, maybe tonight. lol
These cookies are awesome!! And super easy !! Thank you