Our Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes
Whether you’re team crispy or favor a cookie with a soft, cake-like texture, we’ve got a recipe for you. From classic takes studded with semisweet morsels to new spins packed with add-ins, every single one of these chocolate chip cookie recipes will make you want to head into the kitchen and bake!
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Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
Small changes can make a big difference. We took our basic chocolate chip cookie and made one isolated change at a time. We added, swapped, melted, baked low, baked high and chilled. But mostly we had fun. And with each slight tweak we made a new cookie with a different texture, look and taste from the last. Use our guide as a way to find the perfect cookie for you. No big changes necessary.
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Air Fryer Chocolate Chip Cookies
Bake right on your countertop! Your air fryer can make more than just French fries. These chocolate chip cookies are small, sweet and cakey. Make the dough, roll into balls and freeze — then thaw and air-fry a few as needed for easy after-dinner treats.
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The Best Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies are inspired by the thin and crispy style made popular by the Long Island bakery Tate's Bake Shop. In our version, we've upped the brown sugar, vanilla and chocolate chips for an even more flavorful and decadent treat.
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Triple Chocolate-Hazelnut Cookies
The classic chocolate chip cookie gets a doubly decadent upgrade: buttery hazelnuts and three different types of chocolate!
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Mini Bittersweet Chocolate Chip Cookies with Flaky Sea Salt
The ground oats in this crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside cookie add an interesting depth of flavor, while the use of sea salt and bittersweet chocolate, create a mysterious sweet and salty contrast.
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Chocolate Chip-Coconut Cookies
A classic cookie gets mini chocolate chips and big coconut flavor (thanks to plenty of unsweetened shredded coconut) for a simple twist you won't be able to resist!
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Cakey Chocolate Chip Cookies
We took our classic chocolate chip cookie recipe and made one little change: replacing the light brown sugar and granulated sugar with dark brown sugar. The result is a lovely tender cookie.
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Sourdough “Discard” Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you refresh your starter often, it can be a challenge finding ways to use it. Nobody in my house has ever complained when I make more chocolate chip cookies, so this combo was a no-brainer. The sour starter combined with dark brown sugar makes for a softer, chewier cookie with a complex flavor that develops as the dough chills.
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Go-To Chocolate Chip Cookies
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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Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
These soft, chewy cookies are studded with little morsels of chocolatey heaven. They are also completely gluten-free and grain-free thanks to the almond flour.
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Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans
Use bittersweet chocolate chips in these cookies — they're the perfect complement to buttery pecans and sweet brown sugar.
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Bittersweet Chocolate Chip-Peanut Cookies
Grown-up bittersweet chocolate and kid-friendly honey-roasted peanuts make this chocolate chip cookies perfect at any age.
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Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies
Tahini, a rich paste made from ground sesame seeds, gives these chewy cookies a distinctive nutty flavor. It also makes the dough extra light and fluffy when you first put it together, so make sure to leave ample time to chill it before baking the cookies.
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Extra-Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
We took our classic chocolate chip cookie and made one little change: baking it at 300 degrees F instead of 375. The result is a cookie that's flat and crunchy, with a toffee flavor.
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The Best Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
We skipped the white sugar and went all in with dark brown sugar, which gives our cookies the ideal chewiness and perfect level of sweetness. Paired with the right amount of semisweet chocolate chips, this treat is a definite winner. The recipe makes a lot of cookies, but in our opinion, this is never a problem!
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Waffled Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best part of these crispy-on-the-outside, soft-in-the-middle- cookies is they're ready in a snap; no oven preheating required. We prefer thicker waffle irons for these cookies, but if your iron is thinner, be sure to adjust your timing so they'll cook faster.
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Super-Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
We took our classic chocolate chip cookie and made one little change: replacing all-purpose flour with cake flour. The result is a cookie that's tender and chewy, with caramelized edges.
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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
Get ready to meet your new favorite twist on the chocolate chip cookie! Pumpkin and chocolate chips make a powerful pair in these cakey treats with rich pumpkin pie spice flavor and loads of semi-sweet morsels. The cookies don't spread much in the oven, so flattening the dough is key.
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Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Whole-wheat pastry flour and dried fruit make these irresistible chocolate chip cookies less indulgent, but you don't have to tell your kids that.
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Milk Chocolate Chip-Pecan Cookies
Enjoy a subtle twist on the classic semisweet-and-walnut cookie by swapping in milk chocolate chips and pecans.
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Coconut Oil Chocolate Chip Cookies
Swap in coconut oil for butter in a classic chocolate chip cookie and what do you get? A tender cookie with a lovely light color and distinctly chocolaty chips.
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Chocolate Chip-Banana Chip Cookies
You'll go bananas for this chocolate chip cookie — with chopped banana chips baked right in!
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Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is such an easy chocolate chip cookie. No special equipment, no creaming — a perfect cookie to do with kids. We love how versatile this dough is, too. It makes an awesome rocky road bar cookie.
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Crispy-Cakey Chocolate Chip Cookies
We took our classic chocolate chip cookie and made one little change: baking them at 425 degrees F instead of 375. The result is a cookie that is crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside.
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Dried Cherry, Macadamia and White Chocolate Chip Cookies
These cookies develop a lot of flavor from chilling the dough for a longer about of time. This is the secret to amazingly flavorful dough.
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Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
All the best parts of chocolate chip cookies — chewy, crispy and tons of chocolate chips — meet all the tender moistness of banana bread in a perfect treat that straddles both worlds. We start off with a bang by simultaneously caramelizing a banana and browning butter for unmatched depth of flavor. From there, it’s just one bowl, two baking sheets and a little patience while the dough chills. But the result is worth the journey for a cookie that’s equally appropriate for dessert and breakfast alike.
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Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies
There is a special little bakery in New York City called Levain Bakery that makes seriously decadent and massively huge cookies, which are the inspiration for these giant treats. These oversized cookies are chewy on the inside and crispy on the outside with chunks of chocolate and slightly sweet walnuts studded throughout. The key to making them so chewy is using only dark brown sugar and skipping the granulated stuff altogether. The molasses in brown sugar gives the cookies the most ideal chewiness and just the right amount of sweetness.
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Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sometimes you are in the mood to bake some chocolate chip cookies but don’t want to make the large amount usually called for in the recipe. Ta-da! We've created a recipe that yields just a dozen classic chocolate chip cookies — enough to satisfy your craving and share with a couple of friends.
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Zucchini Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
We all have the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe, but does yours have vegetables and oats? This delicious cookie has it all -- zucchini, oats, whole wheat flour, you name it. Toasted pecans and dark chocolate chips add just enough buttery crunch and sweet melt to put it over the top. Ditch your plain jane cookie and try this one that has a little of everything!
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