The Absolute Best Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe Ever

These cookies ooze chocolately goodness when you break off a chunk.

Absolute Best Chocolate Chunk Cookies - perfection!  kellyelko.com

These cookies are snatched off platters at parties, leaving only crumbs behind.

Absolute Best Chocolate Chunk Cookies - perfection!  kellyelko.com

These cookies, piled high under a glass cake dome, don’t last a day in our house.

Absolute Best Chocolate Chunk Cookies - perfection!  kellyelko.com

These cookies are …

The Absolute Best Chocolate Chunk Cookie Recipe Ever

Makes about 30 large cookies

* 1/2 lb (2 sticks) unsalted butter (at room temp)
* 1 cup light brown sugar, packed
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
* 2 eggs (at room temp)
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 teaspoon baking soda
* 1 teaspoon salt
* 1 1/4 lb semisweet chocolate chunks (not chips)!

– Preheat oven to 350
– Mix together butter, brown sugar and sugar with electric mixer on low until fluffy
– Add vanilla and eggs and mix on low until blended well
– Sift together flour, baking soda and salt then add to the butter mixture on low blending only until combined
– Fold in chocolate chunks

– Line baking sheets with parchment paper
– Use ice cream scoop to scoop up batter and drop onto baking sheets
–  Slightly flatten dough with your hand
– Bake for 15 minutes (cookies will seem slightly underdone – don’t over bake or they will be crisp instead of soft and chewy)
–  Remove from oven, let cool slightly on pan, then transfer to wire rack or plate to cool completely
– Dig into one while it’s still warm and smile with chocolate all over your teeth!

These cookies scream out for a glass of ice cold milk.

Absolute Best Chocolate Chunk Cookies - perfection!  kellyelko.com

These cookies are a cinch to make (or I wouldn’t make them).

These cookies are all gone – time to bake another batch.

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27 Comments

  1. The cookies look yummy! I’ll definitely try these. And I do have to say.. I have finally found a great idea for all the little creamer bottles I’ve been saving. What a cute idea to serve milk in them. They’re just the right size.

    Have a wonderful day!
    Lisa

  2. They look absolutely delicious – I was wondering how much in grams 2 sticks of butter is as this looks like something we will make here in England with everyone home.

    Thanks
    Dee at the Carlton

  3. They look delicious! And, I’m pretty sure I just gained 5 lbs. looking at them! Thanks for sharing such a great recipe … am definitely jotting this one down!

  4. These look evil. I am going to pass this on to Cassidy. She is my 24 hour on-call baker 🙂 I love to bake, but I love it even more when she does the baking for me 🙂 Thanks for sharing this. I will blame my 5 lb holiday weight gain on you.

  5. Lovely work, Kelly! Would you be happy to link it in to the current Food on Friday which is collecting snacks and treats? This is the link . I do hope to see you there. There are already quite a lot of links for you to check out. Cheers

  6. I made these because they looked absolutely amazing but mine spread out so much they looked weird with big chunks protruding from a thin cookie. How did you get it to stay thick?

  7. Hi there- followed this recipe exactly as it was written and they turned out super thin. the outsides of the cookies browned quickly and the middles took forever to cook- they look nothing like the picture. The dough was delicious though:)

  8. These cookies look great but mine didn’t come out looking anything like this. I did everything you said and even put them in for 12 minutes knowing our oven cooks a little hot but they still burned badly. Made smaller cookies but struggled to get them to cook right. Very frustrated with this recipe because choc chip are so easy to make! There’s something wrong with this recipe.

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