Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookies

Article by  Emily Saladino

These gooey chocolate chip cookies are irresistible. And they live up to their moniker, remaining soft and gooey (but not underbaked) even when cooled to room temrperature. With just a handful of ingredients, the recipe comes together in minutes—you don’t have to prep, chill the dough, or even remember to take out the butter to soften.

How to Make Gooey Chocolate Chip Cookies Like a Pro

Thanks to these expert tips from Food Network Kitchen, this soft chocolate chip cookie recipe bakes up tall and fluffy with lots of melty chocolate every time.

Start with cold butter. When you cream room-temperature butter, it collects air that makes cookies spread in the oven. Cold butter means these thick chocolate chip cookies bake up tall. Bonus: you don’t have to plan ahead and take the butter out to soften!

Combine white and dark brown sugars. The Food Network Kitchen team carefully calibrated the blend of sugars to make sure these gooey-on-the-inside cookies stay tall and fluffy. Granulated white sugar creates a crisp shell that maintains structure in the oven, and the dark brown sugar provides texture and deep molasses flavor.

Keep the egg in the fridge. A cold egg keeps the dough from getting too warm, so your homemade cookies turn out tall and thick.

Don’t skip the cornstarch. The Food Network Kitchen team adds cornstarch to the dry ingredients to keep these gooey chocolate chip cookies tender and chewy.

Use standard-sized chocolate chips. Chocolate chips are convenient and melt evenly into the gooey chocolate chip cookie dough. Our recipe developers don’t recommend using mini chocolate chips, however, because they melt completely into the dough and mask its flavor. Similarly, chocolate bars melt at a lower temperature so chopped pieces spread too quickly as the cookies bake.

Other Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes to Try

If you love baking cookies, check out some other favorites from Food Network Kitchen.

Chocolate Chip Cookies. With crispy edges and soft interiors, this classic cookie recipe is the best of both worlds.

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies. It only takes a few minutes to brown butter, and it adds lots of rich toffee flavor to these homemade cookies.

Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies. Curious how to make cookies from scratch that taste like your favorite gourmet brand? The elegant crunch of this Food Network Kitchen recipe was inspired by Long Island favorite Tate’s Bake Shop.

Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies. Stir in chips, M&Ms, chopped Hershey’s bars, or a combination in this extra-chocolatey chewy cookie recipe.

Coffee-Toffee Chocolate Chip Cookies. This soft chocolate chip cookie recipe has a dash of espresso powder and lots of dark chocolate chips and chopped candy for layers of flavor and texture.