Go-To Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 3 dozen cookies
  • Total: 55 min
  • Prep: 10 min
  • Cook: 45 min
Here's the new standard, the chocolate chip cookie you'll bake again and again. More brown sugar than white and a pinch of cinnamon give them the richer, rounder, perfected flavor we pushed for as we tested batch after batch.
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Ingredients

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon fine salt

1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature

1 cup light brown sugar

1/2 cup granulated sugar

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

2 large eggs

12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  2. Whisk the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon together in a medium bowl and set aside. Beat the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar with an electric mixer on medium-high speed in a large bowl until well combined, about 2 minutes. Add the vanilla and eggs and beat until light in color, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the flour mixture and mix on low speed until well incorporated. Fold in the chocolate chips by hand using a rubber spatula.
  3. Using a small scoop or tablespoon, drop level tablespoonsful of dough onto the prepared baking sheet, about 2 inches apart. Store the dough in the refrigerator between batches.
  4. Bake the cookies in three separate batches until golden around the edges, the center is soft-set and the tops get nice and crackly, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool the cookies on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, and then remove to a rack to cool completely.

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Cheri Griffith

This recipe is now My "go to" for chocolate chip cookies. My family loves them. This is super easy and, honestly, these cookies look like specialty cookies from a bakery!

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