Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies!
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Delicious chewy chocolate chip cookies that don’t require chilling, and are perfectly soft, chewy and crunchy at the same time!
Cookie recipes
So I have constantly, through my years of baking, tried to find the *perfect* chocolate chip cookie recipe, and these are – in my opinion of course, the perfect chewy cookie. They are heaven in every bite, and I will fight anyone that disagrees – joking obviously.
If you have followed me for a while, you will be VERY aware of my NYC Cookie recipes, such as my classic chocolate chip NYC Cookies, my mini egg NYC Cookies, or even my triple chocolate NYC Cookies… and they are all amazing, but they require chilling…
I have another delicious chilled cookie recipe that is not an NYC Cookie – Milk Chocolate & Sea Salt Cookies – and they are mighty delicious, and are worth the wait, but I wanted something that is far quicker and easier to make! My chocolate oat cookies are also delicious, but again… not quite there for the chewy level!
Chewy chocolate chip
HOWEVER, these chewy chocolate chip cookies?!… they don’t require chilling like all of my other cookie doughs! Hellooooo heaven! Honestly, this bit can be worth it in some recipes, but definitely not in all, I just want to bake them asap!
These cookies are packed full of chocolate chips, and they are soft, chewy, crunchy, and delicious – and you can get your perfect ratio of those factors depending on how long you bake them for. I always want my recipes to be as customisable and adaptable as possible – but I know peoples opinions on the perfect cookie can differ.
- 11-12 minutes – the minimum – lovely and soft in the middle yet starting to crunch on the outside.
- 13-15 minutes – only the very centre stays soft, and there is a lot more crunch to each bite
- 15-18 Minutes – the maximum – super crunchy chocolatey cookie heaven.
These timings are of course, what my oven does… some may take a tiny bit less time, some might take more… but you will be able to tell at 12 minutes if they’re still raw in the middle or not and whether they need more time. All bakes continue to ‘bake’ as they are cooling so remember to think of that!
Cookie dough
The cookie dough is ever so slightly different to my other cookies, but mainly very similar with an extra egg yolk for the texture, but it’s worth it, I promise.
- Butter – you can use a fridge cold baking butter, or room temp unsalted butter
- Sugars – I use light brown soft sugar, and white granulated sugar
- Egg – one medium egg is perfect for this, as well as one egg yolk.
- Vanilla – optional, but always delicious and suits the cookie perfectly
- Flour – plain flour is important as you add the raising agents yourself
- Bicarb – helps create the perfect texture to the bake – no baking powder though
- Salt – I adore a sprinkle of crushed sea salt in my cookies as it is just heavenly
- Chocolate – I use milk chocolate chips but you can use any chocolate
Making the cookies
For these cookies you simply have to follow the steps of the recipe by beating together the butter and sugars, adding the egg, egg yolk and vanilla, and then the dry ingredients. Trust me, stick with the ingredients. Then, I used milk chocolate chips – but you can of course use whatever chocolate you prefer.
The cookie dough should have a stickiness to it, but not be wet and runny. If it is, you may need to add 50-75g more flour as it definitely should be scoop-able. I use this cookie scoop to portion my cookies, so I got quite a lot – you do NOT need to weigh the cookie dough like the NYC Cookies, as a scoop does the job absolutely perfectly.
Tips & Tricks
I have literally baked SO many different recipes that I am not sure if my family can cope with cookies anymore, but they’re insane. It is necessary to taste test them all! In my opinion, I utterly adore this recipe – and I am sure you guys will utterly adore these as well!
- These cookies will last for 4-5+ days at room temperature
- These cookies will freeze for 3+ months
- The cookie dough will also freeze raw for 3+ months, add 1-2 mins to the baking time
- I use this cookie scoop in this recipe
- I use these large baking trays
- I use this milk chocolate in my cookies
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 175 g unsalted butter
- 225 g light brown soft sugar
- 100 g white granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 medium egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 275 g plain flour
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp sea salt
- 325 g chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 190ºC/170ºC Fan and Line 2 Large baking trays with parchment paper.
- Melt the butter slowly until it is fully melted, leave to cool for a couple of minutes.
- Once cooled, beat in both the light brown soft sugar and granulated sugar until they are all thoroughly combined.
- Add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract and beat the mixture until the mixture becomes much lighter in colour, is smooth, and has increased in volume.
- Add the dry ingredients (plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, and sea salt) and beat again until smooth.
- Fold through the chocolate chips.
- Using a 5cm Scoop, portion the cookies onto the trays (I did 6 per tray).
- Bake the cookies in the oven for 12-13 minutes for softer chewy cookies, OR 15 minutes for soft/crunchy cookies.
- Leave the cookies on the tray for 5 minutes after they have finished baking, and then transfer to a wire rack and continue to cool! Enjoy!
Notes
- These cookies will last for 4-5+ days at room temperature
- These cookies will freeze for 3+ months
- The cookie dough will also freeze raw for 3+ months, add 1-2 mins to the baking time
- I use this cookie scoop in this recipe
- I use these large baking trays
- I use this milk chocolate in my cookies
ENJOY!
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Hi, do you have to add the additional egg yolks?
Hi Jane
I have frozen a batch of these cookies cooked ,
Ready for Christmas , what’s the best way of defrosting them ?
Thank you ! X
Room temp the eve before is best! x
These Cookies are AMAZING!
These cookies came out perfect.
If I want to have the ingredients how do I do this with the eggs thank you
I’m on a Jane’s patisserie cookie marathon! I’m giving these a 5 star because they were definitely chewy but after making them I realise I’m more of a softer fudgy cookie gal and my hunt for the ultimate choc chip cookie continues….Will try her NYC choc chip version next!
Can I make this recipe and do 1 large cookie?
Amazing! However came out slightly larger than expected. Obviously I can’t measure 🤣 next lot will be measured with suggested in the recipe. My son didn’t complain. Just left them in a touch longer. But were still perfect.
Came out perfect! If I wanted to add cocoa, how much would I add (and how much to reduce the flour by)please?
This is the first cookie recipe that gave me the beautiful crinkly tops. Everyone loved it. However personally I like the taste of more white and less brown, I was wondering if I can interchange the quantities?
Hiya! Sorry, im not sure what you mean – more white and less brown what? x
Sugar. More white and less brown sugar. However I later realized that I used dark brown sugar, so maybe light sugar would be perfect.
Made these for the first time today as my OH loves homemade cookies, although his idea of homemade is a certain cookie mix from Aunt Messy (as i call her). He absolutely loved the process and cared for them coming out the oven like nothing i’d ever seen before. He can’t wait to take them into work and dish them out now! Thank you for making this baking fun and easy!
I have made these 4 times in the last month! They always come out great. Unfortunately my cookie scoop broke but I just weighed out the dough and rolled it in to balls on the tray. I make a combination of chocolate and smarties and they work great.
Hi! Are you able to advise on bake time for smaller cookies please? I’d like to make them slightly smaller than the recipe currently has them, perhaps 30 rather than 20 – how long would you recommend baking them for and should I lower the oven temperature? These are so delicious but I need them to be a bit smaller so the calorie impact of eating them in multiples is less 😂
Hiya! Try baking them at the same temp for 9-10 mins! Hope this helps! x
I want to make stem ginger cookies, Could I use this recipe but replace the chocolate chips for stem ginger?
Hiya! Yes this should be fine! Enjoy! x
I sometimes have mixed results with cookies but these are fabulous! Followed the recipe to the letter and they look exactly like the picture with the consistency I was looking for. Thank you so much. You are my first port of call now when looking for baking recipes as they are so good.
I was going to make these as part of an end of term present for all my teachers and TAs at school, along with millionaires shortbread, for about 16 teachers and TAs in total. How long would each of these last if I baked them on maybe 17th and they would need to ideally last till the 22nd or would you recommend freezing? If you do can I freeze these cookies cooked? Sorry for all the questions?
Hiya! These last for up to 3 months frozen – so I would make them in advance and freeze just to be sure! Hope this helps!x
Hi! I was just going to make these cookies to decorate your cookie cake with, and I thought it would be best to half the recipe. If I make half the recipe, would it be possible to use one whole egg instead of half a medium egg and half an egg yolk? Xxx
Hiya! Yes this will be fine! Enjoy! x
Turned out amazing. So many compliments on them from our bake sale. So good I’ve now got extra dollops frozen in a bag ready to just bake when the need arises.
Hiya, I’m trying to make white choc chip cookies . Was wondering if i could use this recipe and just substitute the milk chocolate for some white chocolate ?!
And would i use the same amount of white choc as you do milk chocolate …?
Thank you x