The Best Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you’re looking for the best homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe, look no further! These are one of our families’ favorite things to make. So easy and delicious. I will take you step-by-step making these easy and delicious cookies.
When I tell ya’ll my husband doesn’t like sweets, but he LOVES these cookies. I promise once you try this tried-and-true recipe you’ll never use another homemade cookie recipe. Make room for it in your recipe box because it will be a family favorite for sure.
Jump to RecipeThe Comfort of a Cookie
There is just something so comforting to me about having a warm, homemade chocolate chip cookie baked fresh at home. The perfect amount of soft with the sweet and salty mixed in. My children love to help me with this recipe, and we all enjoy the end product. We make these cookies together about every other week or so.
What You’ll Need
- Mixing bowl or Stand mixer
- Small scooper
- Measuring cups
- Measuring spoons
- Baking sheet
- Cooling rack
Ingredients to Gather
- Salted butter (softened)
- All-purpose flour (unbleached)
- Brown sugar
- Cane sugar
- Large eggs (2)
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- Baking soda
- Sea Salt
Making the Cookie Dough
First things first, cream together in your mixer the softened butter with the brown sugar and cane sugar.
Next, add the eggs (one at the time) making sure they are mixed in with the butter and sugars well. Add the vanilla extract and the pink Himalayan salt, also.
In a separate bowl mix the dry ingredients together. The reason for this is it will evenly distribute the rising agent throughout the dough better. Leaving you with a more consistent cookie.
Once the dry ingredients are mixed together in a bowl, slowly add them into the butter and sugar mixture a little at the time until fully incorporated.
Then add your chocolate chips! We measure with our hearts in this house 🙂 (*Option: you can substitute white chocolate chips for the dark)
Prep the Baking Surface
Whatever you decide to use to cook these on will need to be prepped. I like to smear some butter to the bottom of our baking sheet. Coconut oil is a good option or olive oil. Just so the cookies won’t stick to the pan while cooking.
Use the cookie scooper (I love this thing). I also use it for things like cake batter or pancake batter. So handy!
Scoop the chocolate chip cookie dough onto the baking sheet. Space about 1-2 inches apart.
Baking Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bake the chocolate chip cookies in a preheated oven (375 degrees F) for 10 minutes.
When you bake these cookies, they may not “look” done at the ten-minute mark, but that’s ok. They will finish baking on the baking sheet and be the perfect consistency. Transfer to the cooling rack.
You don’t want to over bake these cookies. They won’t be soft if they are over baked. Let them finish cooking on the baking sheet a few minutes before moving them to a cooling rack.
Storage of Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies
After the cookies have cooled and if you have resisted tasting them warm ;), you’ll want to transfer them to an air-tight container to store. In a zip lock bag or a container for up to 1 week. They don’t last that long in our house and I’m sure it’ll be the same for you!
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Equipment
- 1 stand mixer
- 1 baking sheet
- Measuring Cups
- measuring spoons
- 1 small cookie scooper
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter (preferably grass fed) Softened
- 2 ½ cups non-bleached all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ cup raw organic cane sugar
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1 tsp pink Himalayan salt
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 large organic eggs
- 2 cups (no sugar added) chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 375o F
- Beat together in a stand mixer the softened butter and sugars.
- Add in the pink salt and vanilla and mix until well incorporated.
- Add in the eggs one at the time mixing well in between.
- Add flour, baking soda and salt in a separate bowl. Give a quick stir.
- Add in the flour mixture to butter and sugar mix, one cup at the time. Mix well until you don't see any more flour.
- Add chocolate chips and mix well until they are distributed throughout the dough.
- Scoop onto baking sheet spaced evenly about 1 ½ inches apart.
- Cook in preheated oven for 10 minutes or until golden on top. Take out and allow to cool before eating or storing.
