Chocolate Chip Cookies
Updated Nov. 17, 2025
- Total Time
- 45 minutes, plus chilling
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Ingredients
- 2cups minus 2 tablespoons cake flour (8½ ounces)
- 1⅔cups bread flour (8½ ounces)
- 1¼teaspoons baking soda
- 1½teaspoons baking powder
- 1½teaspoons coarse sea salt, plus more for sprinkling
- 1¼cups unsalted butter (2½ sticks)
- 1¼cups light brown sugar (10 ounces)
- 1cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar (8 ounces)
- 2large eggs
- 2teaspoons natural vanilla extract
- 1¼pounds bittersweet chocolate disks or fèves, at least 60 percent cacao content (see note)
Nutritional analysis per serving (18 servings)
399 calories; 18 grams fat; 11 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 5 grams monounsaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 67 grams carbohydrates; 12 grams dietary fiber; 29 grams sugars; 10 grams protein; 254 milligrams sodium
Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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Preparation
- Step 1
Sift flours, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Set aside.
- Step 2
Using a mixer fitted with paddle attachment, cream butter and sugars together until very light, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Stir in the vanilla. Reduce speed to low, add dry ingredients and mix until just combined, 5 to 10 seconds. Drop chocolate pieces in and incorporate them without breaking them. Press plastic wrap against dough and refrigerate for 24 to 36 hours. Dough may be used in batches, and can be refrigerated for up to 72 hours.
- Step 3
When ready to bake, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a nonstick baking mat. Set aside.
- Step 4
Scoop 6 3½-ounce mounds of dough (the size of generous golf balls) onto baking sheet, making sure to turn horizontally any chocolate pieces that are poking up; it will make for a more attractive cookie. Sprinkle lightly with salt and bake until golden brown but still soft, 18 to 20 minutes. Transfer sheet to a wire rack for 10 minutes, then slip cookies onto another rack to cool a bit more. Repeat with remaining dough, or reserve dough, refrigerated, for baking remaining batches the next day. Eat warm, with a big napkin.
- Disks are sold at Jacques Torres Chocolate; Valrhona fèves, oval-shaped chocolate pieces, are at Whole Foods.
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Comments
I think this recipe is unnecessarily fussy. The difference between the two kinds of flours is their protein content -- bread flour has 12.7% (per King Arthur Flour's website), cake flour has 9.4%, and all-purpose flour has 11.7%. The amounts of flour called for in the recipe are equal by weight, so the protein content of the combined bread and cake flours is 11.05%, which is practically the same as all-purpose flour. So I just used plain, old AP flour and the cookies turned out fine.
Metric Measurements
241 grams / cake flour
241 grams / bread flour
1 ¼ teaspoons baking soda
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons coarse salt
284 grams / unsalted butter
284 grams / light brown sugar
227 grams / granulated sugar
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract
680 grams / bittersweet chocolate disks (at least 60%)
Sea salt
I learned a trick from Cooks Illustrsted that I have used for several recipes, including CC cookies. Use cold butter. Place about 2/3 of butter in a skillet, melt and then lightly brown the butter. Pour browned butter over cold butter in mixing bowl and mix until cold butter is melted. Mix in sugars (1/2 Lt brown and 1/2 Dk brown), salt, eggs and vanilla. Mix thoroughly, then allow to sit for 3 minutes. Mix 30 seconds, then repeat twice. Then continue with recipe. Sugars develop beautifully!
Do NOT bake these for 18-20 minutes! That was way too long for mine and they were crisp, nearly burnt. 12-15 absolute max
These cookies are amazing, but somehow not as good after the first hour or so, let alone in the days that follow. I tried to underbake these a bit, to keep them gooey, so they weren't overbaked. Any ideas what I can do to keep that amazing taste when they aren't hot out of the oven?
This is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe, period. A cousin made these for us during a visit well over a decade ago. We photocopied the recipe, taped it inside the cover of our cookbook, and it has been our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe since. It is fussy, and the cookies are still great even if you just use all purpose flour, which is how we usually do it these days - and - for a weeknight batch of cookies we just use the good ol' Joy of Cooking recipe - but this is THE BEST RECIPE!