Chocolate chip cookies
This recipe is actually one I got from my friend Dave Mckinnon. They are to die for – soft and chewy and warm out of the oven, pretty much heaven. How flat they go will depend on how warm the butter in the mixture is – the colder it is, the rounder they will be.
Ingredients
1 ¼ cups plain flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
¼ teaspoon salt
125g butter (at room temperature)
¾ cup brown sugar (firmly packed)
1 teaspoon pure vanilla essence
1 large free-range egg
1 cup chocolate chips (I like to chop up good quality chocolate and use that)
3/4 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Directions
Preheat oven to 200c conventional bake.
Sift flour, baking soda and salt together in a bowl and stir with a whisk to combine.
In another bowl (or a food processor) beat together butter, brown sugar and vanilla with a hand mixer until well combined.
Add the egg and beat until well mixed.
Add flour mixture and mix well to combine.
Stir in the chocolate chips and nuts if using.
Spoon the mixture in 2 tablespoon portions about 5cm apart on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
Bake in the oven for about 8-10 minutes. The edges of the biscuits should browned. If using two trays at the same time, switch the trays around half-way through to ensure even cooking.
Cool the biscuits on the tray for about 5 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack. Eat them warm then make some more!
I’m 12 years old making these absolutely delicious cookies. I have be3n making these cookies for a long time since they are a great hit!!
I did this completely in my food processor with coconut sugar and spelt flour and they came out amazing. I just creamed the butter and the sugar, added the rest of the ingredients and whizzed again then pulsed in the choc chips at the end. Super yum and easy! Just needed to leave plenty of room to spread.
This is a great choc chip recipe, not complicated at all! Everything worked perfectly and cookies taste delicious. This recipe is a keeper! Thank you!
Hi Chelsea, I make 6 large cookies with this recipe and everyone loves them thanks! Do you think it’s possible to substitute butter with coconut oil for dairy free friends?
you should check out the freedom cookie recipe for dairy free cookies x
i am 10 and there super yummy and easy to make
How many does this make?
Just made these to send to school camp tomorrow, I’m sure they will disappear quick.Another great recipe.
My son (13 years) and I tried these during the first lockdown. It was so great. He has become such an expert in making these cookies that everyone in our family is placing orders by him. Thanks for a great recipe.
Hey! Which book is this from?
Hi Chelsea! Thanks for sharing this great recipe. I added peanuts to the mix for my husband and he loved them. Best chocolate chip cookies ????
Hi Chelsea, Just about to make these yummy sounding biscuits. Can i replace the nuts with the same amount of Peanut Butter?
Hello,
How much cookies does this recipe make:)?
Plz lmk :)
Jane.
Amateur question but is it ok to use self raising flour as I don’t have any plain???
These are genius. My regular go to. I have a toddler so thats my excuse for making these but lets be honest I eat most of them!! Thanks!
We love using nz websites for baking recipes as this makes us feel more at home when eating any baking!
My kids and i love baking (we’re not that great but we give it a whirl) and getting flour all over our faces!
This was our first time using GF coconut flour. We doubled the recipe because we love cookies!
We found that the dough kept crumbling whilst trying to make the cookies into desired round shape.
reading all the other comments – we must have heated the butter too much or ???????
Can anyone help please – thank you.
Hi Chelsea,
I was planning to make these today. But i’m really nervous because i want them to be perfect! Do you have any tips for me?
Thanks Alot!
Lana
I went hunting for a chewy choc chip biscuit recipe that used less butter and sugar than others and discovered yours. My first attempt has just come out of the oven, the house smells amazing and I’m having to fend off eager children until the cookies cool a bit … Cookies are cooled, children are in cookie heaven and proclaim them to be the best biscuits ever! It doesn’t get much better than that. Thank you so much for the fab recipe.
Such a great recipe I can see I will be adding this to my favourites list!!
Hi Chelsea, How do you stop your cookies from spreading out when you bake them??
Make sure the butter isn’t too soft :)
I absolutely love all of your recipes Chelsea, I know this one off by heart it is the best chocolate chip cookie recipe I have come across. My partner and I find them so moorish. Whenever I feel like baking I always know all of your recipes can be trusted, you are my fav.
thank you for this recipe. the family loves it and its been a hit for many social gatherings. I cannot praise you enough :) cant wait for the new book to come out
Hi Chelsea,
If I wanted to make these biscuits eggless, what would you use as a replacement?
This recipe is so yummy and fast to make. I have a nine year old daughter who can basically make them all by her self :)
Chelsea, can you tell me why you suggest plain flour with added baking powder rather than self raising flour? Thanks!
There’s no baking powder in the recipe ;)
Is plain flour the same as standard flour?
i made theese for school camp and people were coming to me to ask if i had the recipe and if there were any more and were gone the day they were brought out.now i make them ever camp and all my friends absolutely adore them;)
Holy deliciousness!!! I’ve been searching for the perfect choc chip cookie recipe for YEARS. The search is over. These are incredible, soft pillowy clouds of yum. Thank you!!
Yummy thanks so much Chelsea I am struggling with what to bake these days as I’m gluten intolerant and my daughter and I are also dairy free. Thank you I will be making these again