Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies are made with brown butter, a combination of brown sugar and white sugar, and semi-sweet chunks and chips. A perfect chewy chocolate chip cookie!
I have come to a realization in my search for the perfect chocolate chip cookie…everyone has different taste buds. Some may love the thin crispy while someone else may prefer a thick and cakey.
Let’s take my family for example. My sister-in-law, Laura, despises cakey cookies (right there with you) and prefers a thin chewy cookie. My Mom loves a thick chewy cookie with nuts. My brother Ryan prefers one with very little chocolate so the cookie flavor comes through. I have created enough chocolate chip cookie recipes to please the masses! Scroll down to find all of my recipes on Modern Honey.
This is precisely the reason I test out SO many chocolate chip cookie recipes. I have been obsessed with figuring out the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe, so for all of you that love a thin chewy chocolate chip cookie, this recipe is for you. But don’t worry this isn’t a recipe that produces super flat cookies with chocolate chip mountains. They aren’t that flat!
So how do you make these Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies? It all starts in the saucepan. Brown butter adds a ridiculous amount of rich toffee flavor to these cookies and is definitely the secret to making killer chocolate chip cookies. The key is to cook the butter until it is a nice warm amber color. It is imperative to remove the butter from the heat and let it cool before adding the rest of the ingredients (specifically the eggs). After the butter is cooled, it is added to the mixing bowl and creamed with the remaining ingredients.
I love to use a mixture of chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. My favorite chocolate chips are Ghirardelli, Guittard, and Trader Joe’s. If I can find Callebaut chocolate chips at Restaurant Depot, then I love to mix those in too. If you have read my blog for more than two seconds, you know how I feel about the Trader Joe’s Pound Plus Bar. It is a GAME CHANGER. It is so good in the chocolate chip cookie dough because it melts just enough to make the cookies rich and chocolatey. A big bar lasts forever too!
Of course, it is important to chill your dough. I know it is hard to be that patient when all you want is COOKIES. But you need to give it that precious time to do its thing. Cookie dough just gets better with time (as long as it is tightly wrapped in the refrigerator). Give it at least 30 minutes in the refrigerator. If you can wait longer, do it! You will end up with an even better cookie. I promise you that.
Since we are discussing chocolate chip cookies, let’s chat about all of my recipes on Modern Honey. Let me know which one is your favorite! Find all of the popular recipes below. I am also sharing my favorite cookie baking tools….those that I couldn’t live without.
Levain Bakery Chocolate Chip Copycat Cookies — the most unique chocolate chip cookie, using different methods to create a thick chewy cookie without being cakey. I am sharing all of the secrets, tips, and tricks to make this perfect cookie. I worked for months perfecting this chocolate chip cookie recipe and it was my very first post on Modern Honey. Before I even started this blog, I had a lawyer offer to patent this recipe after trying out the cookies. This is a Modern Honey favorite cookie! There is good reason why Levain Bakery is the number one bakery in New York City. I am saving you a trip because you can make them at home!
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies — a traditional, fool-proof chocolate chip cookie recipe. This is my go-to recipe is if I want to make a classic chocolate chip cookie.
I Want to Marry You Cookies — this cookie recipe won the Cooking Channel’s Perfect 3 Contest to find the nation’s most perfect cookie. I filmed a segment for the show, “The Perfect 3” in Food Network Studios in NYC. It became the number 1 recipe on cookingchannel.com in 2012. This recipe is made in a saucepan (no mixer required) and has a touch of oats, chocolate chips, and white chocolate chips. It’s a winner!
MJ’s Top Secret Chocolate Chip Cookies — this is the recipe that started my brown butter love affair. This chocolate chip cookie recipe is made in one saucepan (no mixer required) and creates a toffee flavored chewy chocolate chip cookie.
Doubletree Hotel Copycat Chocolate Chip Cookies — people visit Doubletree hotels just to get their hands on their ultra-popular chocolate chip nut cookies. This recipe has a few secrets to set it apart from the rest. The result is a chewy chocolate chip cookie.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars — this is a super easy recipe since the cookie dough is baked in one pan. People go crazy for these ooey gooey chocolate chip cookie bars. It’s no wonder they are a favorite!
100K Malted Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies — the combination of malted milk powder and milk chocolate chips make this a sweet and chewy chocolate chip cookie. If you love sweet malt, you will love these cookies!
My Favorite Cookie Baking Tools:
Baker’s Half Cookie Sheets — I prefer a light colored baking sheet as it ensures the cookies bake evenly on the top and the bottom. Dark colored baking sheets turn the bottoms too brown very quickly.
Silicone Baking Sheets — these are such a genius invention. This makes cleanup a breeze and the cookies remove so easily. Click HERE for an inexpensive version. Click HERE for the original Silpat version.
Nylon Turner — this ensures the cookies come off of the cookie sheets perfectly.
Spatula Set — these are imperative to use to remove the cookie dough from the sides of the bowl.
Cookie Scoop — this creates uniform, perfectly shaped cookies every single time.
Cooling Racks — this helps for the cookies to cool and stops the cookies to continue to cook on hot baking sheets.
Kitchenaid Mixer — my favorite mixer. This is a very well-used machine in my home! I can’t imagine baking without it.
Here is the recipe for Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies:
- Full Recipe:
- 1½ cups Butter (3 cubes), melted in a saucepan
- 1½ cups Brown Sugar
- 1 cup Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups Flour
- 1 cup Cake or Pastry Flour
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1½ teaspoon Salt
- 1½ cups Chocolate Chips
- ½ cup Chocolate Chunks, chopped from bar
- Smaller Half-Recipe:
- ¾ cup Butter, melted in saucepan
- ¾ cup Brown Sugar
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 Eggs
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 1 cup Flour
- ½ cup Cake or Pastry Flour
- ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
- ¾ teaspoon Salt
- ¾ cup Chocolate Chips
- ¼ cup Chocolate Chunks, cut from chocolate bar
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Simmer until butter starts to turn a warm amber color and gives off a nutty aroma. Don't get it brown too long as the liquids will start to evaporate. Pour the butter into a mixing bowl, cover, and let cool in the refrigerator for 20 minutes.
- Once it is cooled, add brown sugar and sugar and cream for 4 minutes. Scrape down the bowl. Add eggs one at a time, mixing after each addition. Add vanilla and mix.
- Stir in cake or pastry flour, all-purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix until just combined. The total flour amount added will equal 3 cups for the large batch.
- Add chocolate chips and chocolate chunks and mix.
- Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 20 - 30 minutes. 24 -48 hours is ideal.
- Heat oven to 375 degrees.
- Scoop the cookie dough onto prepared baking pans. Bake until lightly golden on the edges, 9 -11 minutes for medium-sized cookies or 11-13 minutes for larger cookies.
- *Recipe adapted from G Bakes Recipe
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so I did the recipe of the Thin and Crispy cookies and refrigerated overnight- the cookies all melted together in the pan! Is it because I didn’t use cake or pastry flour? xoxo! PS the cookie dough flavor is AMAZING!!!
ohhhh boy…. I didn’t add the regular flour! I am missing 2 cups of flour, eek!!! Guess I just have to eat the dough! 🙂
Hi friend! Haha! I have done that so many times so you are not alone! I bet the cookies turned out very decadent with only that much flour (even if they spread like crazy). Try them again and you can substitute all-purpose flour for the cake flour (for a total of 3 cups), no problem. I will add a little more detail in the instructions to help clarify. Thanks for trying them out and for your support. You are awesome! – Melissa 🙂
Not gonna lie, I’m a little nervous to see what would happen if I were to be left alone with a fresh batch of these bad boys. They look BEYOND amazing!
when I take the cookie batter out of the fridge, should I let it get to room temp before scooping it? It’s rock hard right now and impossible to scoop out.
Hi Roya! Yes, you can bring it to room temperature. It usually only takes about 5-10 Minutes for the dough to be workable. I hope that helps. Thanks for trying the recipe! 🙂
Hi, how big do you scoop each cookie dough? By medium size you mean golf ball size? Or how many Tbsp each scoop? Thank you!
Followed your recipe and left the cookie dough in the fridge for 48 hours. Never had done that before. I liked the addition of cske flour. Texture and taste of the cookies were terrific. Thanks.
This recipe was the best I’ve ever made. I used 3 cups of AP flour and used 2 cups of chocolate chips instead of the chocolate bar only because I didn’t have it. They came out perfect!!
They were so delicious! I can’t thank you enough. Thank you!
What variety of chocolate chips do I use… semi or regular, please??? Approximate yield on the smaller batch?
These are absolutely amazing! Just wondering if I can freeze half of the dough to defrost and bake later? A big batch is a really big batch. If not, it’s ok. I’ll just eat them. haha! 🙂 Thank you for this wonderful recipe and I wouldn’t change a thing!
Approximately how many medium cookies does the large batch make?
Can’t wait to try this recipe!
Hello! Ok, I have made over 40 different CCC recipes. I’m obsessed with the perfect cookie. I thought I had it narrowed down to 2 favorites. Until I tried this one. It has the perfect crisp, chew and buttery toffee flavor. It may just be my new “go to” CCC. Thank you, thank you. I just made a batch and have already eaten 3.
Followed the directions minus using cake flour and the batter is super crumbly. It looks like any normal cookie batter but when trying to scoop out the batter it crumbles. Is it lacking moisture ?