Soft and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bake the best soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies with crisp edges, gooey centers, and melty chocolate chips. An easy bakery-style cookie recipe everyone loves.
Servings: 36 -40 cookies
Calories: 173kcal
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups BREAD flour
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch keeps the cookies tender
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter melted and cooled slightly
- ½ cup shortening so doesn’t spread too much
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons milk adding helps balance the moisture when using more brown sugar and softens the texture
- 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate morsels
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl of an electric mixer, combine butter, shortening, and sugar. Cream well.
- Add egg and egg yolk and mix well. Continue mixing while adding vanilla extract and milk.
- Mix flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt together. Gradually add to wet ingredients.
- Stir in chocolate chips.
- Place dough in refrigerator and chill at least 2 hours or for up to 2 days. This will help slow spreading and help cookies keep their lift.
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
- Using a medium cookie scoop, about 2 Tablespoons, scoop heaping portions onto cookie sheet, about 9 cookies per sheet, this will help them bake more evenly. With your fingers, shape them into chunky columns, in other words taller rather than wider, to help with the spreading.
- Bake for 11-13 minutes or until the cookies start to turn a golden brown but the middle looks slightly underbaked (this will help keep the cookies soft). Place the cookie sheet on a wire rack and let the cookies cool for 5-8 minutes. You can add extra chocolate chips to the top of the cookies at this time if you like a richer chocolate cookie.
- Remove the cookies to the wire rack to cool completely.
Notes
STORE/FREEZE
Store cooled cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Freeze cooled cookies in a freezer-safe container or zip-top freezer bag for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Calories: 173kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 121mg | Potassium: 77mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 99IU | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg
