CHEWY Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
This chewy chocolate chip cookies recipe is based on Nestle’s traditional recipe, with a few changes that make the cookies chewy and nut-free, and add a distinct vanilla flavor and white chocolate chips. The trick to keeping them chewy is simple – under-bake just a little, and let them finish baking outside the oven instead of transferring to a wire rack.
Ingredients
1 cup + 2 TBS all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup white sugar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 large egg
1 TBS high quality vanilla extract
1/2 cup (1 stick) softened unsalted butter
1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips (I use Ghirardelli’s)
1/2 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Mix flour, baking soda and salt.
3. In a separate bowl, mix butter and sugars until well blended. Beat in the egg and vanilla.
4. Add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and mix just until combined.
5. Add chocolate chips.
6. Shape dough into about 10 balls, using your hands. Sure, it’s a little messy, but this is the kids’ favorite part. We like to make them large and since I want them to bake evenly, I weigh them on my kitchen scale
7. Bake 10-12 minutes, until light golden brown. The outer edges should just begin to harden but the center should still be soft. Remove from oven and cool on the baking sheet instead of on a wire rack – this is important if you want chewiness.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who like their cookies soft and chewy and those who like them crunchy. As you may have guessed, I like chewy chocolate chip cookies. What about you?
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Hunter Nuttall responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 12:13 am →
I don’t know what to do first–go find something to cure my sudden ravenous hunger, or laugh at the 70 grams thing. I guess I will laugh first. Ha ha!
Robin responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 12:52 am →
YUM Vered – definitely moist and chewy.
Tara responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 2:31 am →
I must be the exception to the rule Vered, because I’ll eat them any way they come!
J.D. Meier responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 2:46 am →
Nice!
I think the Keebler elves are jealous. You’re right – crunchy cookies are evil!
Emily@remodelingthislife responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 5:05 am →
Yum yum yum! I use the Nestle recipe too but I use shortening instead of butter and they are divine. You have made me want to bake some today!
Dr. J responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 7:31 am →
I am in the crunchy camp! One year we added rice crispies to the cookies..yummmm! However, your cookies look so good, I could easily be persuaded to cross over
veena responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 7:32 am →
yum! cookies… Christmas fever is slowly setting in here too… i see shops selling fake trees and decorations everywhere…
Tabitha (From Single to Married) responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 7:47 am →
Mmmm… looks so good! I just made five dozen cookies the other night to take around to the neighbors but we just went the easy route and used the pre-made dough. These look much better though!
SpaceAgeSage -- Lori responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 8:51 am →
Why turn on the oven? Cookie dough is the only way to go.
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Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 8:54 am →
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Dot responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 9:07 am →
Crunchy for me — original package recipe. I tend to stick to what I’m used to when it comes to desserts, but good for you being able to modify the recipe. And scratch-made only in my house.
Vincent responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 9:15 am →
Hey Vered,
Your cookies look really delicious! I prefer chewy cookies to crunchy ones.
Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger
Mia responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 9:34 am →
I’m a crunchy gal; my hubby a chewy man…needless to say, we have to make multiple batches to satisfy both tastes. BTW- your cookies look much better than any chocolate chips ones I’ve made. Hmph!
Ian Peatey responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 9:50 am →
Oh chewy, for sure! If they’re slightly uncooked in the middle, even better.
Reminds me of sitting in the kitchen as a kid when my mother was baking (not my father – it was the early 1970′s and men were rarely seen in the kitchen in those days!). The biggest treat was getting to scrape out the last bits of dough from the bowl and lick it off the spoon. I’m feeling all nostalgic now! Ian
Kim Woodbridge responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 9:57 am →
I should send my poor child to your house. She has a mother who doesn’t bake … I bought those pre-made ones that you just have to warm up and she was so excited about it.
I like chewy …
zoe responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 10:30 am →
Well if we’re talking preference, I prefer them as dough. But if they just have to be baked, then I like them better if they are chewy.
Unsalted butter? Is there such a thing? (That’s a joke. I know there is such a thing, I’m just that much of a saltaholic, that I wouldn’t even think of buying unsalted butter.)
RC Rambles... responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 10:52 am →
Chewy cookies, please. I’m just not wild about white chocolate, though… And for Little Dude’s sake, will need to use his “vegan butter spread” and get the special chocolate chips to avoid any milk proteins. Must go try NOT to find treats in our office again, now that you have me thinking about cookies.
Patricia responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 11:09 am →
I love cookies…I don’t just care for and enjoy cookies….I love cookies and I am hoping that my at home kiddo will get down to the business of making cookies today, since we are snowed in and my fast is over or 3 weeks at the Dr. office…
We keep my husband’s Gluten Free cookies at his office because – I love cookies.
I can pass up cakes and pies and ice cream and all those other delights, not cookies…
Well I do eat a piece of blackberry pie on Christmas Eve to remember climbing the trails to pick them in the heat of summer…
Oh I love cookies…I have to leave your post now or I might lose control -
MomGrind responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 11:13 am →
OK. So far we have 5 votes for chewy, 3 for crunchy, 1 for “who cares as long as it’s cookies” and 2 for “why bother baking? just give me some cookie dough.”
@ Hunter: Making fun of my neuroses is quite appropriate so go ahead.
@ Emily: ‘Tis the season for baking… go ahead.
@ Dr . J: They ARE delicious. You should most definitely cross over.
@ veena: Christmas in India? Interesting. I’m sure it’s good for the stores.
@ Tabitha, @ Dot: Made from scratch is really easy, and you know exactly what’s inside. I always worry about trans fats and high fructose corn syrup and of course food coloring and stabilizers in the pre-made stuff. Not that once in a while would kill you, of course.
@ Ian Peatey: you made me smile because these are exactly the memories I’m creating for my kids. So now I get to feel like a good mom.
@ Kim Woodbridge: Oh, don’t worry, I grew up with a mom who never baked and I turned our just fine. Just a little emotionally scarred.
@ zoe: A person who likes PICKLES on their peanut butter sandwich obviously loves salt.
@ RC Rambles: Generally I don’t like white chocolate, but the chips have a creamy texture and a distinct flavor – combining them with semisweet chocolate creates a unique mix of textures and flavors.
@ Patricia: Haha keeping cookies at the office is a great way to handle those cravings.
Nurit responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 12:04 pm →
Those look good. I guess the one who is baking is calling the shots
Carla responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 2:53 pm →
All I can do is live viciously. *drool*
I do like my gluten-free cookies chewy for sure though!
Tracy responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pm →
I love chewy cookies. And gooey fudgey brownies. I like thin crispy cookies okay if they are called biscuits or wafers or something that doesn’t get my hopes up for a proper cookie. Those cookies look so delicious!
Rina responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 4:25 pm →
Oh my gosh! I make choc chip cookies often, and once when I needed them to be perfect for extra-fancy guests, I also weighed them at between 68-74 grams each!!! (Actually, no one ate them because they thought they came from a package!) I thought I was alone… thank you, kindred spirit
MomGrind responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 4:43 pm →
@ Rina: Thank you for coming out of the perfectionism closet for me. I feel less alone now.
MizFit responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 6:04 pm →
any.
I know.
sad but true.
I go both ways
Sara responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 8:28 pm →
Ok, I just bot some Guittard cappucino chips and I am gonna totall make these cookies with them.
Friar responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 8:35 pm →
When I lived in Kingston (Ontario) there was a little town to the west (Odessa). The local bakery made the crunchy kind, best I’ve ever eaten. I’d drive 20 miles just to buy them. They were so good, I’d have eaten just the cookie, without the chips.
Bamboo Forest - PunIntended responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 9:17 pm →
“Because crunchy cookies are not allowed in the house.” That is one amazine household.
Stephanie responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 9:52 pm →
At least they’re homemade. My dad, grandparents and uncles always had a joke about “Commie cookies” when I was growing up, which was any store bought cookie.
Adrenalynn responds:
Posted: December 18th, 2008 at 11:43 pm →
Ok, I’m trying these this weekend! I loathe crunchy cookies. These look soooo good! Thanks
Barbara Swafford - Blogging Without A Blog responds:
Posted: December 19th, 2008 at 1:21 am →
Yum-O Vered – That’s what I’ll be doing tomorrow. Baking Christmas cookies and most will be chewy.
Lance responds:
Posted: December 19th, 2008 at 4:35 am →
Yum…and I’ll take mine chewy too (and warm) – with a glass of milk. I want to come over Vered!!
FoodRenegade responds:
Posted: December 19th, 2008 at 10:01 am →
I love chewy cookies — so much so that I only cook them for about 6 minutes. I also let them cool on the cookie sheet — but that’s mostly because they’d completely fall apart if I tried to move them before they were completely cool. They come out divine!
These days, I use freshly ground sprouted whole grain flour and completely unrefined sugar for my baking just to take the edge off of how “bad” they are. They still come out divine.
YAY cookies!
MomGrind responds:
Posted: December 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am →
@ Sara: Great! Let me know how they turned out.
@ Friar: Hmm… generally I truly dislike crunchy cookies. But these sound good.
@ Stephanie: Some commercial cookies taste great. It’s just that they put so much crap into these things.
@ Lance: You’re always welcome here.
Stephanie responds:
Posted: December 19th, 2008 at 10:12 am →
@MomGrind: I know, but it was a lot of fun for every to joke about how much better Grandma makes them. And of course nice knowing what went into them.
Jannie responds:
Posted: December 19th, 2008 at 11:04 am →
Actually, a new pillow is not a totally bad idea, after all we spend 1/3 of our life on one.
Choc chip cookies, I like mine crunchy on the outside, but chewy on the inside. But we all know I’m a little… um, different.
: )
NaTuRal responds:
Posted: December 19th, 2008 at 3:25 pm →
those looks super delicious. i’m THE cookie monster. i prefer crunchy cookies, but not too soft and not too hard. i might have to give this recipe a try. thanks. enjoy your time off.
MomGrind responds:
Posted: December 19th, 2008 at 6:05 pm →
@ Jannie: I don’t like practical gifts… and, different is better than being a conformist!
@ Natural: Thanks! I plan to. If you make the cookies, let me know how they turned out for you.
MommyNamedApril responds:
Posted: December 20th, 2008 at 7:37 am →
chewy!!! those look fantastic and i will be borrowing the recipe
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Wesley responds:
Posted: December 20th, 2008 at 3:35 pm →
Those look so good. I can’t wait to try them. With necessary substitutions, obviously.
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Posted: December 21st, 2008 at 12:28 am →
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Shalee responds:
Posted: December 21st, 2008 at 12:04 pm →
hmmm those look delicious. Travis and I love to bake cookies. We will most certainly try these ones out. Thank you!
Stacey / Create a Balance responds:
Posted: December 22nd, 2008 at 9:19 am →
Chewy! I’m trying to resist the cookies…so hopefully there will be crunchy cookies at the holiday parties this season.
Michelle @ What Does Your Body Good? responds:
Posted: December 23rd, 2008 at 1:25 pm →
Mmmm chewy is definitely my preferred way to go
Jason Gignac responds:
Posted: December 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 pm →
Word to the wise – I like my cookies not just chewy, but downright gooey and soft – the other trick for making ooey-gooey-chewy cookies, take your recipe, and replace all your white sugar with brown sugar. Either you’ll go ‘meh’ like my wife, or like me, it will change your cookie life, forever…
Jennifer (Danifer) responds:
Posted: December 26th, 2008 at 10:38 am →
Ohhhh, these look so good. Of course, I am trying to diet now that Christmas is over. But what about New Year’s festivities? I maybe should wait until that’s over and THEN start. Okay, now that I have figured that out, I can make your yummy cookies
Thanks.
susanna responds:
Posted: December 30th, 2008 at 8:43 pm →
I think there is a recipe in Alton Brown’s archives of Good Eats that has a different recipe for chocolate chip cookies in the following styles:
Soft
Crunchy
Chewy
I am a chewy lover and i think that required using bread flour for the extra gluten.
It might be worth a google research.
Thanks
Susanna
Mariass responds:
Posted: December 31st, 2008 at 7:34 am →
The cookies look fabulous! I love the white c hips in them!
Miri responds:
Posted: December 31st, 2008 at 10:33 am →
I’m completely with you on the chewy issue! Your cookies look moist and marvelous!
Mark responds:
Posted: December 31st, 2008 at 1:25 pm →
Happy New Year!
MomGrind responds:
Posted: January 2nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm →
@ Jason: “take your recipe, and replace all your white sugar with brown sugar. ” I’m intrigued. I’ll give it a try next time I make them!
@ susanna: Interesting. I use bread flour to make pita bread – never tried it in cookies. I guess you can also add extra gluten. I’ll do some research, but I have to say that these are already fabulous – and chewy.
Christianne responds:
Posted: January 19th, 2009 at 1:28 pm →
I tried baking these cookies this morning… AND THEY TURNED OUT WONDERFUL!!!
I only had 1 stick of butter but I really wanted to bake some chocolate chip cookies, so I did a google search and found your recipe. Thank you for sharing! Very Moist and very Soft!
MomGrind responds:
Posted: January 19th, 2009 at 4:16 pm →
Hi Christianne, thank you for your comment. I’m so glad you liked these!
Claire White responds:
Posted: January 29th, 2009 at 12:03 am →
These cookies are delicious! I followeed the recipe exactly except I used reg choc chips. The cookies were soft, chewy and my husband loves them!
MomGrind responds:
Posted: January 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pm →
@ Claire White: So glad you enjoyed them!
Shelly responds:
Posted: February 9th, 2009 at 7:36 pm →
I like the idea of Chewy, but could you tell me which Ingredient actually makes it CHEWY as I would like to replace the butter by oil or margarine, because of health reasons. So would they be STILL chewy. Many many thanx for your respond, which i’ll be waiting with impatience. xxx Shelly
MomGrind responds:
Posted: February 9th, 2009 at 9:10 pm →
Hi Shelly,
As far as I know, the ratio of the cookie size to the baking time + cooling them in the pan and not on a wire rack are responsible for the chewiness. So make them big, bake for as long as the recipe says, and cool them in the pan – don’t transfer to a wire rack.
Margarine contains trans fats so is best avoided – but maybe you can find a non-hydrogenated margarine. As for replacing the butter with oil, I never tried this – you may need to experiment a little. As far as I know, you should replace 1 cup of solid butter with just 3/4 cups of vegetable oil. If you use a full cup, the cookies will be heavy and greasy. So in this recipe, which calls for 1/2 stick butter, try to use 6 TBS oil. If you use oil instead of butter, the cookie may bake faster and have crispy edges, so keep a close eye on them – you may need to bake them for just 10 or 11 minutes.
As I said, I never tried baking these with oil, so I have no idea if this would work. If you decide to make them, please let me know how they turned out!
Shelly responds:
Posted: February 10th, 2009 at 2:25 pm →
Hi again,
I tried to bake those chococolate chips coockies today. I used oil instead of butter and to make the flavour irrestible I put 2 teaspoons of Golden syrup (equivalent of Corn syrup in USA). Result: my husband who is a professional critic of Journalism said there are Delicious!!! If they wouldn’t be, he would say so…:)
Me personally I found them so irresistible, I could cry…. finally …..
Thank you,
Shelly
MomGrind responds:
Posted: February 10th, 2009 at 2:32 pm →
Shelly, I’m so glad this recipe – with a few alterations – worked for you! Thank you so much for posting your feedback. I really appreciate it.
Christine responds:
Posted: February 20th, 2009 at 12:44 am →
This recipe looks so good!
Quick question though… what does the first ingredient mean??
1 cup + 2 TBS all-purpose flour
is that 1 cup of flour??
MomGrind responds:
Posted: February 20th, 2009 at 8:28 am →
Hi Christine,
Yes, it means one measuring cup plus two measuring tablespoons of all-purpose flour.
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Debbie responds:
Posted: March 15th, 2009 at 10:01 am →
I have been searching for a good recipe for a chewy, soft choco chip cookie for some time. I have tried a few recipes and was extremely disappointed!! I have a friend that is disabled and has a disease that destroys his joints. Also because of this disease, he has lost all of his teeth & cannot wear false teeth. He has no family, he is in his mid 40′s & lives in a nursing home. We were introduced to this very nice man because my husband is a nurse & took a weekend job moonlighting in a nursing home. Needless to say, because of his situation, he cannot chew hard cookies. I was searching the internet and came accross your recipe. Although it looked like some of the others I had tried, something told me that this is the ONE. I doubled the recipe because it did not look like it would yield as many cookies as I wanted. I was SHOCKED at the results. I came out with 16 cookies (and I did DOUBLE the recipe) that were perfection. I think I need to make the cookies smaller.. These cookies were approx. 3 inches accross. When I was baking the cookies, They began to rise to approx 1 1/2 tall. I took the cookies out of the oven and with the tip of a wooden spoon, pushed the tops of them down in an uneven pattern so it would not look like I flattened them with a spatula or something. After they finished cooking and came out of the oven I was soooooooooooooooooooo Happy. They turned out wonderful and beautiful. My only concern is that if I double or triple the recipe, there is 1 stick of butter in each batch. That is an extremely large amount of butter. Due to the yield of a double recipe, I would really like to make 4 batches at a time but am concerned at the 4 sticks of butter that has to go into the recipe. Do you have any suggestions!!!!! Thanks soo much for the WONDERFUL cookie recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!
MomGrind responds:
Posted: March 15th, 2009 at 10:17 am →
Hi Debbie,
I’m so glad this recipe works for you. It’s so wonderful of you and your husband to become the friends of a sick, lonely person.
I have to confess that I don’t worry too much about butter. My family is part-Dutch and we use butter on and in everything. We are also very active and have never had a problem with cholesterol.
You *could* try replacing some of the butter with vegetable oil. I never tried this – you may need to experiment a little. As far as I know, you should replace 1 cup of solid butter with just 3/4 cups of vegetable oil. If you use a full cup of oil, the cookies will be heavy and greasy.
So for the amount you would like to prepare, which would call for 4 sticks of butter, try to use 2 sticks of butter and 3/4 cup vegetable oil. If you like the result, you could substitute the entire amount of butter with 1.5 cups of vegetable oil and see how it turns out.
If you use oil instead of butter, the cookies may bake faster and have crispy edges, so keep a close eye on them – you may need to bake them for just 10 or 11 minutes.
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look delicious
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Posted: August 29th, 2009 at 3:56 pm →
CHEWY!!!! MMM.. I have been looking all over for a good recipe i think this is the one i have been lookoing for!
MomGrind responds:
Posted: August 29th, 2009 at 4:12 pm →
Let me know how they turned out for you.
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emily responds:
Posted: August 23rd, 2010 at 4:24 am →
i made these cookies today, they did not look anything like the ones on the picture, but when i tried them it made me smile, they are sooo good! i don’t know what makes them so nice!!! thanks for sharing!
MomGrind responds:
Posted: August 23rd, 2010 at 2:51 pm →
Glad you enjoyed these cookies Emily.