Chocolate Chip Cookies (Chewy)

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Added 2026-07-02

Ingredients

• 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter (salted)
• 111 grams dark brown sugar (1/2 cup, packed)
• 67 grams granulated sugar (1/3 cup)
• 172 grams all-purpose flour (1 1/3 cups)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 large egg
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Melt butter in sauce pan. Gently simmer for 1 min. Take off heat and stir in sugars. Cool for 5 minutes.
• While it’s cooling, combine flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in a bowl and stir.
• Mix the egg and vanilla into the cooled butter and sugars.
• Combine dry and wet ingredients in bowl.
• Stir in chocolate chips. Let sit for 10-15 minutes (optional: chill in fridge for more stable dough).
• Scoop 2 tablespoon large portions onto baking sheet.
• Bake for 12-13 minutes.

Fieldnotes

Not the greatest cookies you will ever have, but they are solid cookies and easy to make. I would rate them 4/5 stars.

My first time, I made a single batch which produced 15 cookies.

My second time, I doubled the recipe and made 34 cookies.

Both times, I baked each sheet almost exactly 12 minutes and got very consistent results.

I put the extra dough in the fridge while waiting for the first batches to cook, which resulted in later batches spreading out less because the dough was slightly chilled.

Future Plans

I want to reduce the amount of chocolate chips (wife says they have too much chocolate) and add some pecans/walnuts instead.