BEST HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPES

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies – everything from Classic Chocolate Chip, to Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip and even to Cherry Chocolate Chip cookies, this collection of homemade chocolate chip cookie recipes is sure to become a favorite!

We pretty much adore most types of cookies, but chocolate chip cookies are family favorites! We love classic chocolate chip cookies to more unusual chocolate chip cookies. Like say, cookies with avocado?! Or raspberries? Or stuffed with salted caramel? YUM. Read on for all the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies ever:

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

The best Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy and easy to make too! After trying dozens of different chocolate chip cookie recipes, I decided that I like this one the best!  found myself always coming back to this particular chocolate chip cookie recipe every time I needed to take cookies to a party or gathering. See the Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Best Classic recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies ever! Easy to make and fast favorites for anyone who tries one.

5 from 10 votes

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Course: Cookies, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: chocolate chip cookie recipe

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Servings: 4

Calories: 222kcal

Author: Jessica & Nellie

Ingredients

• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 cups butter-flavored Crisco
• 4 eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 tsp. baking soda
• 5 cups flour
• 2-3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

• Cream together the sugars and Crisco with an electric mixer.
• Add the eggs and vanilla and mix.
• Add the salt, baking soda and flour and continue to mix until well combined.
• Fold in the chocolate chips.
• Use a cookie scoop to scoop cookies onto an ungreased cookie sheet; place the cookies about 2" apart.
• Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Let sit for 4-5 minutes and then transfer to wire cooling racks. Enjoy!

Nutrition

Serving: 1g | Calories: 222kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 12g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 14mg | Sodium: 104mg | Potassium: 68mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 24IU | Calcium: 12mg | Iron: 1mg

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Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies

Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy and packed with cherry flavor, bits of maraschino cherries and chocolate chips! A fun and flavorful twist on traditional chocolate chip cookies! I have always loved anything cherry and of course, chocolate isn’t bad either so I’ve always loved the two paired together. I absolutely love the little pieces of maraschino cherries in these cookies and the cherry extract in the dough adds just the right amount of cherry flavor to perfectly complement the chocolate chips. See the Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Best Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies

Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookies are soft and chewy, and they turn out perfect every time! Start with an amazing Peanut Butter Cookie recipe and add chocolate chips to take these cookies to the next level! See the Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Cookie recipe here.

Double Chocolate Chip Pudding Cookies

Double Chocolate Pudding Cookies made with chocolate pudding mix for soft, sweet cookies with incredible chocolate flavor! Best cookies for chocolate lovers for sure.

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies are so soft and yummy, plus this is a delicious way to sneak in some veggies and use up all the zucchini from your garden! Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookies are so yummy! My kids absolutely love Zucchini Bread, so I decided to see what I could do with some cookies and the results are even better than I had hoped! These cookies are thick and soft and didn’t last very long around here. See the Zucchini Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Avocado Chocolate Chip Cookies

Avocado Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, chewy and delicious! These chocolate chip cookies are made with avocado instead of butter – you’ve got to try it sometime!

Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies are teeny tiny chocolate chip cookies about the size of a quarter! Soft, chewy poppable cookies that are perfect for parties. Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies are so fun!  I’ve had the idea for these cookies for months now and I finally got around to recipe testing and baking. I have to say- they turned out amazing! And they were so much easier to make than I thought they’d be. See the Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Best S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe

Graham Cracker S’mores Cookies are made with graham cracker crumbs, marshmallows and chocolate chips. All of the elements of a s’more in a deliciously soft and chewy cookie recipe!

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are all three of my favorite cookie recipes put together! These thick, chewy cookies are the perfect recipe when you just can’t decide what kind of cookie you want to bake! I love peanut butter cookies. And oatmeal cookies. And chocolate chip cookies. For times that you just can’t decide which cookie to make, make these. See the Peanut Butter Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies made with classic ingredients for the perfect soft & chewy oatmeal cookie! Amazing homemade cookie recipe you have to try!

Copycat Mrs. Fields White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Copycat Mrs.Fields White Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft, delicious cookies filled with sweet white chocolate chips. Copycat Mrs.Field’s cookie recipe that everyone can make at home! Mrs.Fields White Chocolate Chip Cookies are the perfect treat, especially during the cold months! There is just something about the winter weather that makes me want a nice plate of cookies, some hot chocolate and a warm fire crackling in the fire place. See the Copycat Mrs. Fields White Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Cookies

These Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Cookies are made with chocolate pudding for a soft, chewy cookie that is completely loaded with chocolate flavor and peanut butter chips. See the Peanut Butter Chip Chocolate Cookie recipe here.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies are chewy, delicious and loaded with oats and chocolate chips. This classic cookie recipe has been a family favorite for many years – it’s the best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe ever!

The Best Monster Cookies

Monster Cookies are made with peanut butter, chocolate chips, M&Ms and oatmeal! All of your favorite cookie flavors combined in one delicious cookie! I really love Peanut Butter Cookies and I really love Chocolate Chip Cookies, but I also really like Oatmeal Cookies….it’s just so hard to make a decision sometimes! Whenever I feel like I can’t make a decision, I usually whip up a batch of Monster Cookies since they are like a combination of all of my favorite cookies! Plus M&Ms. Which are always a good idea! See the Monster Cookie recipe here.

Microwave Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies that are ready in less than 5 minutes! This basic oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe makes six soft and chewy mug cookies in the microwave – no oven required! I promise that this recipe yields fantastic oatmeal cookies! They are soft and delicious and made with very basic ingredients that you most likely always have on hand. See the Microwave Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Lemon White Chocolate Chip Cookies

White Chocolate Chip Lemon Cookies are soft, chewy and perfectly sweet lemon cookies! White chocolate chips & lemon pudding mix add great flavor and texture to these delicious spring cookies.

GIANT Chocolate Chip Cookies from Sally’s Baking Addiction

This quick & easy cookie recipe produces 6 giant chocolate chip cookies. Adapted from my popular chewy chocolate chip cookies, these cookies are a heaping 1/2 cup of cookie dough each and there’s NO cookie dough chilling required. They’re nearly 4x the size of regular cookies with dozens of chips in every bite!

Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies from Mom on Timeout

These Easy Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies are sure to become a new favorite – so soft and delicious, they’re impossible to resist! Throwing out ripe bananas is a serious no-no in my book. Don’t do it! Make cookies instead!

Marshmallow Chocolate Chip Cookies from Chocolate Covered Katie

These are homemade chocolate chip cookies with a twist: Stuff mini marshmallows inside each cookie—I recommend vegan marshmallows because they stay fluffy when baked—and suddenly you have transformed the ordinary into the extraordinary.

100 Layer Chocolate Chip Cookies from I am Baker

What exactly is a 100-layer cookie? It is basically a Double Chocolate Chip cookie. But the magic happens when you roll the cookie dough layers flat and then stack them on top of itself and rolling it out again. And again. And again. You don’t technically need to repeat that 100 times, although you could if you happen to have little helpers in the kitchen who each want a turn! These cookies are absolutely perfect. Not only are they perfect, they are perfectly adaptable. It’s one easy recipe that lends itself to any cookie I can dream up! See the recipe for 100 Layer Chocolate Chip Cookies here from I Am Baker. 

Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodles from Crazy for Crust

Whoa, hold the phone. Did you know that Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodles are a thing? If you want to make the absolute best snickerdoodle ever, you have to add chocolate chips. See the recipe for Chocolate Chip Snickerdoodles from Crazy for Crust here. 

Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies from Cookies and Cups

This is my FAVORITE Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe EVER! Mini Chocolate Chips, three kinds of sugar and coarse sea salt are two easy tricks to make these the BEST! See the recipe for Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe from Cookies and Cups here. 

Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies from Two Peas and Their Pod

Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies-chocolate chip cookies with salted caramel, pretzels, and a sprinkling of sea salt. You will love the sweet and salty combo! See the Salted Caramel Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Double Chocolate Chip Cookies from Chef Savvy

Soft & Chewy Double Chocolate Chip Cookies. Made with semi sweet chocolate chips and cocoa powder. These cookies take only 20 minutes to make start to finish! See the Double Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Super Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies from Baked by Rachel

Deliciously soft Chocolate Chip Cookies with ooey gooey centers!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies from Inside Bru Crew’s Life

These soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies are a favorite cookie in our house. Add this homemade pumpkin cookie to your fall baking plans ASAP! Trust me, they will not last long! See the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookies from Baker By Nature

S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookies are thick, chewy, and loaded with so much gooey goodness! See the S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe here.

Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies from Cookie & Kate

Also amazing? These cookies are (shockingly) vegan. That’s right, there’s no butter or eggs in this recipe, but you’d never guess it. How? Instead of butter, these cookies use melted coconut oil, extra-virgin olive oil, or a neutral-flavored oil like avocado oil. The eggs are simply omitted with no downsides. For non-vegans like me, this means that the recipe is even easier to make than standard chocolate chip cookies. For those with dairy or egg allergies, these cookies are a total game changer.

Why are my chocolate chip cookies flat?

Often times flat, greasy, crispy cookies are caused by too little flour or too much butter. Flour adds volume and texture to your cookies. If you add too little flour, it can cause your cookies to be flat, greasy and crispy. Butter makes cookies tender. It also causes the favorite “crispy-around-the-edges” element. However, if you add too much butter, it can cause the cookies to be flat and greasy.

How do you keep cookies soft and chewy overnight?

The best way to keep your cookies from going brittle overnight is to store them in a zipper-lock bag or a container with a lid. Then, place a small piece of bread (about half a slice) in the bag or container with the cookies. The bread provides moisture for the cookies to absorb that will help keep them soft and chewy!

How to make Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies:

1. Three kitchen items make these cookies come together really fast. I actually use these items in nearly every cookie recipe I make, so they’re quite versatile. First, I line my cookie sheets with a piece of parchment paper. They’re sold in sizes that fit a 12×16 cookie sheet perfectly and enable to cookies to bake well without sticking- and no mess from spraying oil on the cookie sheets!
2. The second item is a KitchenAid mixer. I love mine! I have a Bosch as well but I find I use my KitchenAid for cookies. There is a cookie paddle that comes with every mixer that you attach to the top of the mixer. They’re easy to use and help you mix the ingredients uniformly.  Add this to your wish list because it’s one of my all-time used small appliances ever!
3. The third item is a cookie scoop! Years and years ago I used to use 2 spoons to measure and scrape cookie dough onto the pans. It wasn’t a perfect process and I often ended up with oblong cookies in various sizes. A friend of mine brought cookies to a party and I noticed each and every one of her cookies looked PERFECT. Her secret? A cookie scoop! They come in three sizes- 1/2 tablespoon, 1.5 tablespoon and 3 tablespoon scoops. I used the middle size- 1.5 tablespoon for these, and most other cookies. (Although when I’m serving a large crowd, I use the small cookie scoop. People love having a smaller cookie, especially at an event with several other desserts. For most Chocolate Chip Cookie recipes, I use the middle scoop.