Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are all the rage. These giant, soft, thick, warm cookies are easy to make. Why pay $4+ per cookie when you can bake them fresh at home in less than 20 minutes!
What did we do to deserve chocolate chip cookies? Our love for them started as a kid, eating them hot and fresh out of the oven as an after school snack, and that love has stayed with us well into adulthood. Now, we get to make them for our kids for an after school snack, and we love this delicious circle of life that chocolate chip cookies have given us. This recipe in particular is our absolute favorite. They are so soft and thick and full of chocolatey goodness.
Can I make Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies without a stand mixer?
These cookies can be made without a stand mixer, but you will at the very minimum need a hand mixer in order to whip the butter and sugars together in the same way.
Should I use milk chocolate chips or semi-sweet?
Using milk chocolate chips vs. semi-sweet chocolate chips is a matter of personal preference. Either will work in this recipe, or you can use a combination of both. If you like your cookies on the chocolate-y side…use 4 cups of chocolate chips in this recipe. If you like a ratio of more cookie to chip, then use only 3 cups.
How can I make my cookies taller?
If you want these cookies to be extra thick and tall, shape the dough into balls and then refrigerate or freeze. This will help slow the spreading that occurs when baking. Baking the dough straight from the freezer will produce the tallest cookie.
Can I reheat these cookies?
Warm gooey cookies are a must for many people. If you do not eat all these cookies in your first sitting while they are still warming no worries. You can put these cookies in the microwave for 15-second intervals until it is the desired warmness.
Pro Tips:
Be sure to use the combination of cake flour and all-purpose flour listed in the recipe. Cake flour is more finely milled and has cornstarch cut in which gives this cookie great texture.
Bake these cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Lightly greasing a pan will give these cookies an unpleasant greasy bottom.
Use a kitchen scale to divide the dough evenly. Each cookie should way 6 ounces.
Once you add in the flour, don’t over mix your dough. You only want to mix it just long enough for the ingredients to get combined, nothing more.
Storage Instructions:
Store any leftover cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 1 week.
If you like this recipe, you may be interested in these other delicious cookie recipes:
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
- 5 Ingredient Peanut butter Cookies
- 6 Ingredient Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies
- Perfectly Soft Sugar Cookie Recipe
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WOW! All I can say is these were AMAZING!!
Love these cookies. 1st time I made them they were huge and heavy at 6oz each. Since I’ve made several times, I make them 2oz each.
Question…can these be made into a bar cookie? Would I still bake at 400 degrees? For how long?
I wanted to love these and the taste was great, but they wouldn’t bake properly no matter what I did. I tried freezing them, I tried baking them from the fridge. The edges just went really dark and the middle didn’t cook at all. I tried different baking times and nothing helped.
Andrea: Try lowering the temperature to 375 or 350, and bake a little longer than the recipe directs. Bake one sheet at a time on the middle oven rack, and reverse the sheet after8 or 9 minutes. I have used recipes like this which used a high temperature, and had to adjust it. I think based on my cookie experience, that they need a longer time at a lower temperature, since they are quite thick. Make sure to check your oven with an oven thermometer, too. Good luck!
just made these cookies today..they are absolutely delicious!
Thank you for such a wonderful recipe!
These are really good!! Can you modify them to be a sugar cookie or pb cookie??
Thank you. These cookies are delicious.
Excelente
The best chocolate chip cookies that I have ever made!! They are a hit with family, friends and coworkers love them!
I love all your recipes you make them look so easy. You explain so well and a pleasure to watch so keep up the great work and more recipes! Ty
These cookies look amazing! I will definitely try them. Thank you