Soft Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Total Time
32 minutes
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
22 minutes
Rating
4.97 out of 5 stars
(154)
Ingredients
13 servings
- 1 3/4 cups plain / all purpose flour
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda (bi carb soda)
- 175g / 12 tbsp unsalted butter (, cut into 2 cm/ 4/5" cubes (1.5 US sticks / 6 oz)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar (, packed (light or dark) (Note 1)
- 1/2 cup caster sugar (US: granulated sugar)
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups chocolate chips (, separated (US: semi sweet chocolate chips or chunks)
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Preparation
Step 1
Preheat oven to 180C / 350F (standard) or 160C/320F (fan / convection). Place oven shelf in the middle of the oven.
Step 2
Line 2 trays with baking / parchment paper.
Step 3
Whisk the flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl.
Step 4
Place the butter in a large heatproof bowl. Microwave until the butter is almost fully melted (25 sec for room temp butter, 40 sec for fridge cold butter on high).
Step 5
Whisk to finish melting the butter. (Note 2)
Step 6
Add brown and white sugar, whisk energetically for 15 seconds.
Step 7
Add egg, yolk and vanilla, whisk well for 15 seconds.
Step 8
Add flour mixture and mix until flour is almost fully incorporated.
Step 9
Add 1 cup chocolate chips, stir to disperse and flour is fully incorporated. Batter will be quite loose.
Step 10
Stand for 5 minutes for batter to firm up a bit so it is scoop-able into mounds. (Note 3)
Step 11
LARGE COOKIES: Scoop up a level ice cream scoop / 3 tbsp / 1/4 cup (Note 4) and place on baking trays 5cm / 2" apart - 13 balls. Top with remaining choc chips (these remain on surface once baked = prettier).
Step 12
SMALL COOKIES (26 - 30): Scoop up 1.5 tbsp (heaped tbsp measure) OR 1/2 an ice cream scoop (this works well). Place on baking trays 4cm / 1.75" apart, top with choc chops.
Step 13
Bake 1 tray at a time. LARGE COOKIES: Bake for 8 minutes, then rotate the tray and bake for 3 minutes (11 minutes in total). SMALL COOKIES: Bake 6 minutes, turn then bake 3 minutes (9 min total). The cookies should be just golden on the edges and pale golden on top. They will be slightly puffed up.
Step 14
Cool on the tray - they finish cooking. They will lose the puffiness while resting. Dig in and get your cookie fix!
Step 15
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