Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe! This chocolate chip cookie recipe is made with only brown sugar and makes cookies that are the perfect blend of soft and chewy!
When it comes to easy desserts, it’s hard to beat a chocolate chip cookie. They’re easy to make, and a warm chocolate chip cookie is one of life’s simple pleasures.
These Chewy Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies are certainly simple to make.
They’re great spur-of-the-moment cookies because there is no need to soften the butter ahead of time. The dough comes together in a matter of minutes, and no chilling is required.
If you like a thicker cookie, you can refrigerate it for 30 minutes or so before baking, but no need to chill it if you don’t want to.
And the use of all brown sugar gives these cookies a deeper, richer flavor. So, the next time a cookie craving strikes, bake up a batch of these cookies!
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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter1
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar (packed)
- 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups all-purpose flour2
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt (or scant 1/2 teaspoon table salt)
- 10 ounce package chocolate chips3
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
- Melt butter in a heavy saucepan. The butter should be just melted. If you want to brown the butter, please see the note below.
- Add brown sugar to a large bowl.
- Pour melted butter over sugar.
- Stir to combine butter and sugar. Let stand 5 minutes.
- Add egg and egg yolk; stir to combine.
- Stir in vanilla extract.
- Add flour, baking soda, and salt. Stir until just combined. Please see the comments about flour in the recipe notes.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Using a medium cookie scoop (1.5 tablespoon), drop scoops of dough 2 inches apart on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for about 7-10 minutes, or until the edges of the cookies are golden brown. The centers should still look soft and slightly underbaked. That will help to keep the cookies soft.
- Let cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes. Remove to wire rack to finish cooling.
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Notes
- Butter: If you want to brown the butter, you will need to use more butter because browning butter causes it to cook down. Otherwise, you will be left with a drier dough. If browning, you will need to use approximately 3 tablespoons more butter (so about 19 tablespoons or 269 grams total).
- Correctly measuring the ingredients is key! I suggest either weighing the ingredients or aerating the flour (sifting or fluffing) and then scooping and leveling. If you don't want to sift or weigh the flour, please use less flour. Packing in too much flour will cause the cookies not to spread.
- Can substitute 4 ounces finely chopped semisweet baking chocolate for chocolate chips.
- I suggest stirring this recipe together by hand rather than using a hand or stand mixer.
- Nutrition values are estimates.
- Love chocolate? Try the chocolate chocolate chip version of this cookie!
Nutrition Information
miranda says
Tastes yummy! I’m just having an issue with the cookies not spreading. I made them first by fluffing the flour. When they baked they were basically the same ball shape they were when they went in. So for the second go around I purchased a sifter and tried that way. Same thing happened. Both times the dough seemed pretty wet so I didn’t think it was too much flour. All measurements were exact. You suggested weighing the flour. How much flour do you recommend i use in grams? Thanks!
Kate says
Hi! I’m sorry to hear that! It’s 360 grams of flour. Right underneath the ingredients, there is a link that says “metric”. If you click on that, it will give you the measurement in grams. Another thing that you can try is turning down your oven by 25F. If your oven bakes hot, it can set the outside of the cookie before it has had a chance to spread.
Anya says
I have tested like 8 different cookie recipes since quarantine started and this is the best one yet. They’re so chewy and thick with a lovely crisp exterior which is exactly how I like them!
Kate says
Thank you! I’m so glad to hear that! =)
Dani says
I’m new to baking and I just want to know if this recipe is not that sweet since it uses only brown sugar. Because I tried making chocolate chip cookies before with both brown and white but it was too sweet for me. :D
Kate says
Hi! I think the cookies are just as sweet as cookies made with granulated sugar (white sugar). If you’re looking for a cookie recipe that isn’t quite as sweet, you might like my whole wheat chocolate chip cookie recipe better.
Anna says
Came looking for a chocolate chip cookie recipe that only called for brown sugar as I was out of white & glad I did. Here’s how good these cookies are: I completely missed to add the tablespoon of vanilla and they’re still delicious! I did opt to use the entire 11.5 oz bag of chocolate chips & added half cup of chopped walnuts & they are practically melt in your mouth good. My first batch got a little too brown, so I lowered temp to 350 & found that 8 minutes at 350 worked for me. Looking forward to making again to see how they taste with the vanilla added! Thanks for the great recipe!
Kate says
I’m so glad that you liked them! =) Thanks for commenting!
Benjamin says
I am by no means a baker- I can cook but baking is a very hit or miss field for me. I forgot to buy cookies this week and I crave a sweet treat once in a while at home. I remembered we had flour so I went looking for recipes with no white sugar since we rarely keep it in the house. I had to use almond extract but I just used half the amount that would be used for the vanilla! Ugh they taste so good! My cookies usually end up a little hard (but edible) but these cake out fantastic! And I can just come back to this next time I wanna make some chocolate chip cookies since I really don’t wanna go out to get white sugar.
Kate says
I’m so glad that they worked out well for you! And I’m sure that the almond extract did add a little something extra. =) Thanks for commenting!
Susan says
LOVE this easy recipe. I don’t bake or cook well. Tried this recipe as was trying toake my version of the drop cookies that look like a fallen cookie, with rings around it. I drop the cookies twice; once halfway through baking and then again when finished cooking.
The dropping of pan on counter or stovetop, makes them ‘flatten’ and thin out, with the center being just a bit gooey.
Soooooo good. I also brown the butter, and add a touch of sea salt to tops of cookies.
A boyfriend said they were his all-time favorite!
Thank you!
Kate says
How interesting! Was it the pan banging cookies? I’ll have to give that a try!
Yana says
Hi! Can I make the dough ahead and freeze it? If yes, when it’s time to bake should I pop it inside the oven right away? And will there be changes on baking time and temperature ? :) Thanks so much! Excited to try thesee
Kate says
You can! I scoop it and then freeze it. I place the frozen scoops on a baking sheet while the oven preheats to let them come up a bit in temp before baking. You may find that you need to add an additional minute or two, but I would check at the given baking time and go from there. No need to adjust the temperature. Hope that helps!
Jen says
These cookies are amazing! I’ve made them so many times, and they have turned out delicious. The last time I made them they were a bit gritty for some reason. Any idea why?
Thank you!
Kate says
Hi! I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the cookies! =) Is your brown sugar hard? I’ve found that when I get towards the end of my package of brown sugar that it gets harder which can make it more difficult to get it to fully incorporate.
Angela says
These cookies came out PERFECT! Sifted the flour as directed and measured it out after. Quite a big difference in flour amount! 😊 Totally learned something new! Great chewy cookie recipe.. didn’t let the dough chill as long as directed but did stick it in the fridge while I let my oven preheat. I was scared that they were going to come out flat but the consistency of the dough was spot on! Thank you!
Kate says
I’m so glad to hear that the cookies turned out well for you! Thanks for commenting! =)
Sufi says
Is the one cup of butter measured in solid form or melted? I’m using solid sticks of butter so I was curious. Thanks!
Kate says
Hi! That’s what I used as well. So, I used 1 cup (solid) and then melted from there. Hope that helps!
Andrea says
Apparently, just like biscuit recipes, one can never have too many chocolate chip cookie recipes. Because why not?! They all serve a purpose. lol Soooo good. I love what brown sugar does for a cookie.
Kate says
Thank you so much! =)
Steffany says
I plan on making these today. I’ve been looking for a good chocolate chip cookie recipe and have always wondered what they would taste like if I used dark brown sugar instead of light. However I never considered using ONLY brown sugar for a softer, chewy texture so I have to give this a try. If I remember, I will post an update to let you know how they turned out! IF I remember… :D
Kate says
I’ve used dark brown sugar, and it gives a deeper caramel/toffee flavor to the cookies. =)
Shawna says
Can I use coconut sugar instead of brown sugar?
Kate says
I wouldn’t recommend it in this recipe as I don’t find that coconut sugar gives the same texture and moisture to cookie dough.
B says
What if I used dark brown sugar?
Can I substitute brown sugar with both dark brown sugar and white ?
Kate says
You can use dark brown sugar. It will give the cookies a richer brown sugar flavor. Using part white (granulated) sugar, won’t give you the same results. Brown sugar adds moisture to the cookie dough which helps to make the cookies soft. Granulated sugar pulls moisture from dough, so you’ll end up with a dried dough and a crunchier cookie.
Marnie says
Always some complainers! LOL The recipe is bomb!
Kate says
Thanks!! Glad you liked the cookies. =)
Kelsey says
So far this is the best recipe I’ve found!
Kate says
Thanks!! I’m so glad that you liked it. =)
Emily says
Amazing cookies!!!! Followed the recipe, measured the ingredients, got perfect chewy cookies.
Kate says
Thank you! I’m glad that they turned out well for you. =) Thanks for commenting!
Chelsea says
The cookies turned out gritty and dry. I’m not sure how chewy these cookies could be considering the recipe calls for 3 cups and most recipes say 2 1/4 cups. Tasty but the texture is off.
Kate says
Every cookie recipe calls for a different ratio of butter, sugar, flour, and eggs. Otherwise they would all be the toll house recipe that uses 2 1/4 cups. For instance, Jacques Torres’ cookie recipe (or NYT cookie recipe as it has come to be known) calls for 4 cups of flour. Allrecipes popular chocolate chip cookie recipe calls for 3 cups, and Alton Brown’s choc chip cookies call for 12 ounces of flour. However, just looking at the amounts of flour in a recipe without looking at the measurements of the other ingredients tells you nothing.
The real key is properly measuring your ingredients. If you aren’t willing to use a scale for accurate measurements, then please follow the notes in the recipe that recommend using less flour to avoid the dry cookies you ended up with.
ck says
can i substitute brown sugar with golden yellow sugar?
Kate says
I’ve seen a couple different kinds of sugar called golden yellow. One was just a lighter brown sugar with a similar moisture and crystal size to brown sugar. That should work. The other was a drier, larger grain sugar similar to a raw sugar. That won’t give you the same chewy texture in the cookie.
Lynette says
Love this recipe! I miss the metric weights, though, and the link that you have isn’t working. Please help!
Thank you~
Lynette says
I found the metric weights in the comments below so you can disregard my last message. Mmmmmm……making them now!
Kate says
Hi! There’s a button right underneath the ingredients that says “metric”. You can click on that, and it will give you the weights. This will allow you to scale the recipe by moving the servings if you want.