There are many recipes for chocolate chip cookies, from double chocolate chip, to white chocolate chip.
These deliciously chewy cookies have the perfect crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside texture, and will be a great hit with everyone – I mean, who can say no to a cookie?
This is a quick, easy recipe which doesn’t require chilling in the fridge, so is very convenient to make.
What You Need To Make Chocolate Chip Cookies
Note: Scroll to the recipe card at the bottom for the ingredients quantities and full detailed method.
The ingredients required for chocolate chip cookies are typical cupboard staples and so hopefully most will be on hand. The possible exception might be the chocolate, well it usually is in our house as it doesn’t last very long!
What Sugar Should I Use?
The ratio of brown sugar to white sugar can change the way your cookies turn out- more brown sugar leads to a more flavoursome cookie, but more white sugar means the cookies will spread more in the oven- this recipe uses a combination, to get the best of both, but feel free to experiment.
What Chocolate Should I Use?
You can use chocolate chips for simplicity, or you can use chocolate shards from a chocolate bar buy chopping it up with a knife.
How To Make The Cookies – Step by Step
Mixing The Ingredients
Make the dough by creaming the butter and sugar together in a bowl. Add in the vanilla essence and egg and mix again. Then, sieve in the flour and baking powder. You can use your hands to combine everything together and turn it into a dough.
Adding The Chocolate
If you are using a bar of chocolate rather than chocolate chips you will need to chop them up. Be particularly careful when chopping up the chocolate – you will need to use a sharp knife to cut through it.
Turning It Into Cookie Dough
Add the chopped chocolate, or the chocolate chips, if you are using them and use your hands to gently integrate them into the cookie dough until they are well spread throughout.
Put The Cookie Dough On A Baking Tray
Add golf ball sized ‘dollops’ of cookie dough to a lined baking tray. Make sure you leave ample space between them to allow for spreading. You should get about 12 to 16 cookies from this mixture depending on how large you want the cookies to be.
Cooking The Cookies
The cookies will take about 15 minutes to cook at 180°C/160°C (fan) / Gas mark 4, depending on how crunchy you like them. I prefer crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside and find 15 minutes to be the perfect length of time for this. They taste seriously good like this.
If you prefer them crunchier with less chew, leave them to cook for a little longer.
The best way to eat chocolate chip cookies is when they are still warm – the melted chocolate tastes amazing with the chewy sweet cookie dough. They still taste great when eaten once cooled, they just likely won’t last much longer beyond that!
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I hope you enjoy this chocolate chip cookie recipe – let me know in the comments if you make them.
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Ingredients
- 250 g plain flour
- 180 g butter room temperature (soft)
- 100 g soft light brown sugar
- 80 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 1 egg
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 200 g chocolate chip cookies
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C (fan) / Gas mark 4
- Cream the butter and sugars together in a mixing bowl with a wooden spoon, until smooth and fluffy.
- Add the vanilla essence and egg, and mix again until well combined.
- Sift in the flour and baking powder and fold into the mixture.
- If you are using a bar of chocolate rather than chocolate chips, use a chopping board and cut the chocolate into thin shards/chunks, and then, or if using chips, add into the mixture, and 'knead' briefly to incorporate the chocolate. You may want to set some aside to sprinkle over the finished cookies.
- Spoon the mixture into dollops on a lined cookie sheet/baking tray. I made fewer, larger cookies, so I used about 2 tbsps of mixture per cookie (remember they will spread).
- Bake for 15 minutes, or until slightly golden around the edges, for a chewy centre, or a bit longer for a crunchier cookie.
- (Optional) Sprinkle the spare chocolate over the cookies, and place back in the hot oven (turned off). This will make the cookies look and taste even better 🙂
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an estimate.
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M
Tuesday 24th of June 2025
Made today, absolutely gorgeous,didn't think they would beat my usual go to recipe which uses s/r flour instead. Your recipe which uses plain flour and a lot less sugar than my usual recipe is perfect. Cookies kept their shape better and the 15 minutes cook time was spot on. This is now my favourite cookie recipe and will be a regular bake, thank you Liana for another winning recipe.
Lisa
Wednesday 20th of May 2020
Hi, Please can you tell me what temperature and time you'd recommend for doing these cookies in the air fryer. Thank you
Liana Green
Friday 22nd of May 2020
Hi Lisa - I would cook them at 180c (350F) - as for time, air fryers tend to differ sometimes in their speed with cooking but I would say aim for 5 minutes and check on them to see if they are as you like them - let me know how you get on!