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    Simple and Quick Chocolate Chip Cookies

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    This Simple and Quick Chocolate Chip Cookies are a one-bowl, no chilling and no mixer needed recipe.

    Using pantry staple ingredients and very little effort, you can enjoy this classic, bakery-style cookie in just under 30 minutes.

    Chocolate chip cookies made in one bowl? Sign me up.

    Melted butter is your ticket to quick and easy chocolate chip cookies.

    Since you don't have to cream the butter and sugar, you don't need a mixer either and the results are just as delicious as complicated cookie recipes.

    Melted butter with brown sugar and granulated sugar in a bowl.
    Using chocolate chunks make these cookies absolutely decadent

    Basic ingredients for Chocolate Chip Cookies

    This chocolate chip cookie recipe uses pantry ingredients that you probably already have at home.

    • Flour: We use all purpose flour in this recipe because it yields the right texture and crumb. I like to measure my flour with a kitchen scale for accuracy but if you don't have one, make sure you spoon your flour into your measuring cup.
    • Unsalted butter: We want to control the amount of salt in our cookies, so a sweet, unsalted butter is best.
    • Brown and white sugar: the perfect ratio of brown to white sugar is what yields the crispy edge and chewy texture of the ideal chocolate chip cookie.
    • Baking soda: This ingredient adds the airy texture to the cookies.
    • Chocolate Chips: You can use your favorite chocolate chips or better yet, add a chopped chocolate bar.
    • Eggs: They act as the binding agent in this recipe. We use one full egg and one egg yolk.
    • Salt: A touch of salt brings the sweetness up a notch and balances the cookie overall.
    chocolate chopped in a wooden board
    Using chocolate chunks elevates this simple cookies

    Tools

    For this recipe you only need one bowl, I like a medium size glass bowl to make sure I get all the batter incorporated and nothing sticks.

    You will also need a whisk to mix the wet ingredients and add a bit of air to the batter.

    The other key tool is a silicon spatula, this will allow you to fold the dry ingredients with the wet and get a well mixed dough.

    A kitchen scale for measuring ingredients is optional but highly recommend.

    Step by step instructions:

    Melt the butter

    Here you can use your microwave to melt the butter in 30 second intervals until fully melted.

    My preferred method is the stop top and better yet, I melt the butter until it starts caramelizing the milk solids. This is known as "browned butter"

    Browned butter gives the cookies an extra layer toffee-like flavor that makes them taste amazing.

    If you have the time to slowly melt the butter and keep an eye on it until it develops amber specs, do it! It only takes 10-15 minutes but you have to keep an eye on it.

    Mix the sugar, butter and eggs.

    Once your butter is melted and slightly cool, add the brown and granulated sugar.

    With your whisk, mix it vigorously until the butter and sugars are combined and almost all sugar granules dissolved.

    Add the egg and egg yolk one at a time and continue whisking. The mix should look a yellow pale color.

    Add the flour

    I like to use a separate bowl and quickly mix the flour, salt and baking soda.

    Then I add the flour mix to my butter mix in three parts using a spatula to combine it after each flour addition.

    After the last flour addition, I like to leave a few streaks of flour and add the chocolate chips and chunks.

    Add the chocolate chips

    Add the chocolate chips and chocolate chunks (if using) and mix well until all the flour is well incorporated.

    The dough should look soft but not stick to the bowl.

    Form the cookies with golf-size balls. I like to make them about 60 grams each so it yield 12 cookies.

    Tips for best chocolate chip cookies

    chocolate chip cookie with bite on the side
    These have the best texture

    Fresh is best when it comes to chocolate chip cookies, so I highly suggest scooping out the dough into balls and keeping them in the fridge (up to 5 days) or in the freezer and baking them in small batches.

    All ingredients should be at room temperature (eggs and butter) to avoid temperature shock in the batter.

    If you need to bring the eggs to room temp, just place them in lukewarm water for about 5 minutes. Be aware that once you place the eggs in water you should use them ASAP. If not, discard them.

    Melt the butter and let it cool down. If using the microwave melt the butter in 30 second intervals and mix, continue like so until fully melted.

    Avoid over mixing the flour. Once you add the dry ingredients, do not over mix because you will develop the gluten in the flour and create a cake-y cookie.

    It is better to under bake the cookies a bit instead of bake them too long. The cookies will continue to bake and solidify once they cool down.

    If you over bake the cookie it will turn out very dry and crispy. Those don't make good leftovers.

    Bake in one batch or keep the dough in the fridge for freshly baked cookies

    Storage tips

    These cookies will last for 3-4 days in an airtight container at room temperature.

    You can bake smaller batches and keep the dough in the fridge for up to 5 days and bake as needed.

    You can also freeze the dough for up to 3 months. You can scoop out the balls and place them in a freezer-safe bag or container.

    If you bake all the cookies at once, you can reheat the cookies in the microwave for 10 seconds to melt the chocolate and warm them up.

    If you loved this cookie recipe you will definitely love the brown butter chocolate chip cookie. If you prefer a cookie with a bit more snap to it, try these Kylie Jenner Chocolate Chip Cookie.

    Chocolate chip cookies with chocolate chunks.

    Simple and Quick Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Isabel
    This one bowl recipe yields simple and quick chocolate chip cookies that chewy with a nice crispy edge
    4.96 from 23 votes
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    Prep Time 5 minutes mins
    Cook Time 12 minutes mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 12 cookies

    Ingredients
      

    • ¾ cup Butter unsalted, melted
    • 1 cup Brown sugar
    • ½ cup White sugar
    • 1 Egg
    • 1 Egg yolk
    • 1 ¾ cups All purpose flour
    • ½ teaspoon Baking soda
    • ½ teaspoon Salt
    • 1 cup Semisweet chocolate chips

    Instructions
     

    • Pre heat oven to 330 Fahrenheit
    • Add the melted butter, sugars, egg and egg yolk to a glass bowl
      ¾ cup Butter, 1 cup Brown sugar, ½ cup White sugar, 1 Egg, 1 Egg yolk
    • Mix with a whisk until well combined, about 3 minutes
    • Add half the flour, baking soda and salt, mix with a spatula
      1 ¾ cups All purpose flour, ½ teaspoon Baking soda, ½ teaspoon Salt
    • Add the chocolate chips and the rest of the flour and fold in until the dough is formed
      1 cup Semisweet chocolate chips
    • Scoop out with a cookie or ice cream scooper. Bake on a cookie sheet at 330 Farenheit for 13 minutes
    • Remove from the oven and allow them to cool down for a couple of minutes in the cookie sheet (they will finish baking)
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    1. Clara

      July 16, 2023 at 2:36 am

      When the pregnancy craving for homemade chocolate chip cookies strikes, I’m simply not going to wait 48 hours for them to rest in the fridge. So, finding this recipe has been amazing! I add a tsp of vanilla and these hit the SPOT. Thank you!

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      • Isabel

        July 16, 2023 at 4:19 am

        I'm so glad you love the recipe!

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      • S. whitney

        October 08, 2024 at 2:30 am

        Ok. So I discovered this recipe and decided to make them. After I discovered I had no chocolate chips, I decided to swirl in some Hershey’s baking cocoa (I whisked in an extra TBSP of sugar to make sure it wouldn’t be bitter. Then I folded in some pecan pieces. Gotta ‘em out from oven while still a bit soft. Came out chewy and D E L I C I O U S!

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    2. Chad

      November 05, 2024 at 1:31 am

      4 stars
      it is a fine recipe but I needed to add about a nother 1/4 cup of flour it could be due to my elevation but the cookies ran a bit thin without it

      Reply
      • Isabel

        November 05, 2024 at 8:17 pm

        I'm glad you knew how to adjust for altitude. Hope you enjoyed the cookies.

        Reply
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