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
Kellie says
This is our favorite cookie recipe. I sift the flour but can never seem to get the cookies to flatten. What am I doing wrong?
Kate says
Hi! There are three reasons why cookies may not spread. 1) Too much flour in the dough 2) the oven bakes hot, and the outside is setting before the cookies have a chance to spread 3) old or expired leavening. You could try turning the oven down 25F to see whether that helps the cookies to spread before the outside sets.
Cassandra says
Baking this tomorrow! Did I miss if it calls for light or dark brown sugar?
Kate says
You can use either! Light brown will give you a milder brown sugar flavor, and dark brown sugar will give you a richer, more caramel-y flavor.
Tay says
This is my favorite cookie recipe EVER!!!! My friends and family rave about how good these are. The brown sugar makes ALL the difference.
Kate says
Thank you so much!!
Kristen says
Brown sugar only is now my new favorite way to make
chocolate chip cookies! I had no idea the difference it would make, but it’s perfect.
Thanks!
Kate says
Thank you! I love the flavor that it gives the cookies, and I’m glad to hear that you liked it, too! =)
MICHELLE DARLENE MIRANDA says
Great cookie the brown sugar is a lot better cookie than the white sugar
Kate says
Thank you! I’m glad that you like them!
HA says
My favorite recipe. I did brown the butter, and I also froze the cookie dough balls before baking, so when baking from frozen, I lowered heat to 355 and added maybe 4 minutes to cook time. TONS of positive feedback for this recipe.
Kate says
Thank you! I’m so glad that you liked it! =)
N says
I’m in India. Is it possible to see a picture of the brown sugar you use. It looks very different yet not so much from the two types we get here