Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

These bakery style chocolate chip cookies are chewy with crisp edges and gooey centers! Every bite is loaded with chocolate chips and buttery flavor. These classic chocolate chip cookies are dare I say – better than the bakery!

Make this easy recipe in under an hour and top with a little flaky sea salt for the best chocolate chip cookies you’ll ever make!

What makes the the classic chocolate chip cookie so delicious? Is it the texture? The combination of a sweet brown sugar and dark chocolate chips? Or is the flaky salt on top? I say it’s everything!

When I think of the perfect chocolate chip cookie, I think of a cookie that’s slightly gooey, a little chewy, full of chocolate chips, with slightly crispy edges.

Well, I brought my idea of the perfect bakery style cookies into fruition with this recipe. It’s my go-to recipe for the holidays and my Husband can confirm – these bakery chocolate chip cookies are Santa’s favorite cookies 🙂

I honestly, I could not be more pleased and excited to share this recipe with you!

Love these chocolate chip cookies? Be sure to check out these Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies and Vanilla Bean Butter Pecan Cookies! Oh, and this small batch chocolate chip cookies recipe too!

Ingredients

• Flour: you’ll need both all purpose flour and bread flour for these bakery-style chocolate chip cookies. The bread flour (my secret ingredient) adds a chewy texture to the cookies while providing structure. Bread flour is a bit drier than all purpose flour, so this recipe calls for a bit more butter than the typical 1 cup of butter you’re used to seeing.

• Baking soda makes the cookies rise in the oven and also adds subtle flavor.

• Salted Butter: I know, most recipes call for unsalted butter – but I love the taste of salt, I think it makes everything better and give these delicious cookies a bit more flavor. However, if you prefer unsalted butter or want to use it instead, add an addition 1/2 tsp of kosher salt to the chocolate chip cookie dough. Of note: make sure to use a quality butter such as an European style butter. High fat butter yields the best results with these cookies!

• Brown sugar: adds sweetness to the cookies, yes, but it also adds moisture and chewiness – and most importantly, flavor!

• Sugar: sugar attracts moisture, making these cookies soft and tender and allowing them to brown in the oven. This ingredient is responsible for those nice crispy edges!

• Semi-Sweet Chocolate chips: here’s where you can get creative! I used semi-sweet chocolate chips but you can use dark chocolate chunks, milk chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips – whatever you’d like!

Tips for the Perfect Bakery-Style Cookies

1. Ensure that you always level off your ingredients when measuring. This ensures that you are using the correct amount of flour/sugar etc. What does this mean? If you add too much flour, your cookies won’t spread. This prevents this from happening. It means that when you measure a cup of flour (or whatever ingredient), that you remove excess flour that doesn’t fit in the measuring cup. (exact measurements in the recipe card)
2. Do not use parchment paper to line your baking sheet. The parchment paper causes the cookies to spread too much and they’ll be flat. Simply use a nonstick large baking sheet. Don’t worry about the bottoms of your cookies burning, you’re technically underbaking them and allowing them to cool to set so that they’re both gooey but still have those crisp edges.
3. Use room temperature butter and eggs. Cold butter butter makes thick cookies that don’t spread. Cold eggs won’t incorporate into the butter as easily and could cause your batter to separate. Also of note, when beating the butter, beat the butter for the full 3 minutes as listed in the recipe. This will absolutely make a difference, I promise!
4. … this is the hardest thing to do but SO worth it. Let the cookies cool. Let. The. Cookies. Cool! It gives them time to set. If you love warm cookies, you can always warm them back up, but it’s SO crucial to allow them to cool when you first take them out of the oven. I cannot stress this enough. Allowing them to cool lets the cookies set and gives you that lovely texture that we know and love. Also, this gives time for the flavors to come together! You can’t skip this step!
5. Follow the recipe. Exactly. Measure your ingredients, follow each step, and most importantly, have fun! Happy baking!

How to make Chocolate Chip Cookies

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer using the paddle attachment, beat room temperature butter on medium speed for 3 minutes, until light and fluffy. Add brown sugar, sugar, and vanilla extract. Continue to mix for another 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add one egg. Mix for one minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl again and add the second egg. Mix for another minute.

• In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients – bread flour, flour, baking soda, and salt. Add to stand mixer and mix with the wet ingredients until fully incorporated, about 30 seconds. Fold in chocolate chips with a rubber spatula.
• Use a large cookie scoop or roughly 2-2.5 tbsps of dough and roll into a ball. Place 4-5 cookie dough balls on a large cookie sheet, giving cookies about 3 inches of space. Pro tip: Press any extra chocolate chips into the cookie dough balls to get the chocolate chips on top of the cookies (like in the picture).

• Bake cookies for 13-14 minutes, until the edges are golden brown. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 2-3 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack or wire rack or plate to cool. Dip the whole cookie in a glass of milk and you’ve got one of the best chocolate chip cookie recipes you’ll ever!

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