Soft & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Let these cookies bring you back to your childhood as you smell the sweet cookie dough baking with the chocolate chips through the air. This cookie recipe is ready within 30 minutes. Simple, straightforward, amazingly delicious, doughy yet still fully cooked, chocolate chip cookie that turns out perfectly every single time!
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda or 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup butter softened (2 sticks)
- ¾ cups granulated sugar
- ¾ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips or more or less if desired
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375F
- Take out two mixing bowls. In one bowl, combine the flour, baking soda (or powder if using), and salt. In the other bowl, beat together the butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract until creamy using a hand mixer or stand mixer.
- Add one egg at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Gradually at the flour mixture a little bit at a time, beating it as you go. When you add more, stop mixing, add the flour mixture, then beat again. This ensures you don't overmix.
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Drop the cookie dough in 1 tbsp balls onto the baking sheets, separating them so they're not close together, about 1/2 inch.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes. Let them stand for 2 minutes; transfer to wire racks to cool completely.