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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

January 15, 2019 by Modern Honey 73 Comments

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The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

How to make the best chocolate chip cookies in the world. These are hands down the most perfect chocolate chip cookies!

This has been a recipe I have been tweaking for months and months! You know how serious I take my cookie recipes.  The cookie recipes I post need to be absolute perfection! If you have been following Modern Honey, you know how much I LOVE chocolate chip cookies. It has been my favorite thing to whip up in the kitchen since about 1979.

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Since my Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies are the most popular cookie recipe on Modern Honey, I wanted to experiment with the recipe a little. Since Levain Bakery cookies are huge, I wanted to try making them smaller, reducing the baking temperature, adding vanilla, and a tad less flour. The result was the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe EVER!

This chocolate chip cookie has a perfectly chewy center and crispy edges. You can make them in any size but I usually make them between 3-4 ounces.

I made the chocolate chip cookie dough and then experimented with different oven temperatures. I tried 385 degrees, 395 degrees, 400 degrees, 410 degrees, and even 425 degrees in a quest to find the ultimate baking temperature for these chocolate chip cookies. The winner was 400 degrees! It allowed the cookies to get those crispy edges while keeping the middle a perfect texture.

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I also experimented with chilling the cookie dough. If you’ve read my posts about chilling cookie dough, you will find that I believe it is a pretty important step.  When you chill cookie dough, something pretty spectacular happens and it just gets better with time.  The flavors meld together, the dry ingredients absorb the butter and sugar, and the cookies become richer and more decadent. So if time is on your side, chill the dough for at least 24 hours!

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How to make the Best Chocolate Chip Cookies:

  1.  Start with cold butter, cut into cubes. If you want thicker cookies and less spreading, use cold cubed butter. You can also take the butter out of the refrigerator, place it in a microwave-safe bowl and put it in the microwave for about 5-8 seconds. It needs to be firm enough to cut into cubes but just soft enough to mix well with the sugars.
  2. Cream the butter, brown sugar, and sugar for 4 minutes until light and fluffy.  This helps to create a creamy texture and to wrap the butter around the sugar.  It also whips air into the cookie dough which gives the cookies some extra rise.
  3. Add eggs and vanilla and beat until creamy.
  4. A secret leavening ingredient is to use BOTH cornstarch and baking soda. The cornstarch gives the cookies such a tender, melt-in-your-mouth texture. It’s one of my favorite ingredients to add to cookies!
  5. Bring on the chocolate chips.  I love to make my cookies extra chocolatey so I add some extra chocolate chips. Use your favorite type of chocolate chips — semi-sweet, milk chocolate, or a mix of both. I also love to chop up a high-quality chocolate bar since it melts so beautifully. My favorite chocolate chips brands are Guittard and Ghirardelli.

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Here are my favorite baking tools that I can’t live without:

Light-Colored Baking Sheets
Parchment Paper Liners
Silpat Silicone Baking Sheets
Cookie Scoop
KitchenAid Mixer

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If you love chocolate chip cookies, here are some of the most popular recipes:

  • Levain Bakery Copycat Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • MJ’s Top Secret Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Charmina’s Chocolate Chip Cookies
  • Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

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The BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
10 mins
Total Time
25 mins
 

Here's a tried and true chocolate chip cookie recipe that will impress everyone!

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: the best chocolate chip cookie recipe
Servings: 18
Ingredients
  • 1 cup Cold Butter (cut into cubes, if you want a slightly thinner cookie...microwave for about 5-8 seconds)
  • 1 cup Brown Sugar
  • 1/2 cup + 2 Tablespoons Sugar
  • 2 large Eggs
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla
  • 2 3/4 cups Flour (may use all-purpose or 1 cup cake flour and 1 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour)
  • 1 teaspoon Cornstarch
  • 3/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 3/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 2 - 2 1/2 cups Chocolate Chips (semi-sweet or mix of milk chocolate and semi-sweet)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees (if not chilling the dough). Check your oven temperature using an oven thermometer since some ovens run hot. If you suspect your oven runs hot, preheat oven to 385 degrees.  In a large mixing bowl, cream butter, brown sugar, and sugar for 4 minutes until light and fluffy. 

  2. Add eggs and vanilla. Mix for 1 minute longer. 

  3. Stir in flour, cornstarch, baking soda, and salt. Mix just until combined. Fold in chocolate chips. 

  4. If time permits, wrap the dough tightly in plastic wrap and chill for 24 hours. If not, scoop cookie dough onto baking sheets. I suggest using parchment paper or Silpat silicone baking sheets on light-colored baking sheets. If you using dark colored baking sheets, the bottoms of the cookies may brown quickly and can burn. I suggest using light-colored cookie sheets. 

  5. Bake for 8-11 minutes or until the edges just begin to turn a light golden color.  Remove from oven and let set for 5 minutes before removing from the cookie sheet. 

Recipe Notes

**If you chill the cookie dough, make sure to tightly wrap it so it isn't exposed to air.  Once you are ready to bake the cookie dough, let the dough sit out for at least 15-30 minutes to allow to come to room temperature.  Depending on how long it has been chilling, it may be a little crumbly. Press together with hands to form balls. 

I hope you love these perfect chocolate chip cookies! Thank you for following along!

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Comments

  1. Daniel says

    December 25, 2020 at 3:58 PM

    The taste of these cookies were great. However, when I used the recipe they ended up uncooked on the inside. 7 more minutes at 350 degrees seemed to do the trick for these ones.

    Reply
  2. Barry C says

    January 17, 2021 at 12:06 PM

    4 stars
    Hello, I love modern honey choc chip cookie recipe with the cornstarch, superb, My wife passed away last year and got into baking, primarily cookies, and give most away, LOL dont want to gain weight. it is fun though.
    I have learned that to really get good at cookies, one must study the scientific part about the ingredients, makes life simpler if understanding what each ingredient is doing, instead of throwing stuff together and hoping.
    anyway I made the modern honey, levain bakery dark choc chip cookie, is really good, but not a wow factor like everyone says. I wonder why they leave out vanilla extract in recipe, unless they think will make it to sweet.
    I am just curious. Have you tried it with vanilla extract? I use the best ingredients also, dont skimp on ingredients.
    thanks for help, I find that between modern honey and another gal name of tara teaspoon, these are my go to recipes for choc chip cookies

    Reply
  3. Mike says

    February 15, 2021 at 2:01 PM

    Is it unsalted or salted butter?

    Reply
  4. Donna Gasquet says

    February 22, 2021 at 7:37 AM

    Cannot WAIT to try out this recipe gem….Question:…Light Brown or Dark Brown Sugar?…In France we also have a somewhat ‘raw’..less compact-able sugar called ‘Cassonade’….Do you suggest any particular variant?! Much continued respect and awe.

    Reply
  5. Emina says

    March 15, 2021 at 10:37 AM

    5 stars
    My favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe! I make it every so often but I cut it in half every time. Most recently I put in a little too much flour and had to add some milk to thin it out and loved the result, will be adding a splash o fmilk from here on out. I don’t chill the dough FWIW

    Reply
  6. Carla says

    April 7, 2021 at 11:08 AM

    5 stars
    I’ve tried several different cookie recipes. This is by far THE BEST! I’ve used this recipe several times making cookies for my family, their friends and i once brought them to work( I work with mostly men)
    Since then they all call me mama. Because I take care of them. I’m also requested to make them all the time. My daughter comes home from college with friends and that’s the only thing they request.
    This is my keeper. Thank You 😊

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