Chocolate Chip Cookies (Chewy)

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Added 2026-07-02

Updated 2026-08-04

Ingredients

• 1 stick (1/2 cup) butter
• dark brown sugar (1/2 cup)
• granulated sugar (1/3 cup)
• all-purpose flour (1 1/3 cups)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/4 tsp baking powder
• 1 egg
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 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.
• Combine flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda in 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. Refrigerate dough 15 minutes.
• Scoop 2 tbs 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 try making these with pecans/walnuts and half the chocolate chips.