What's the best chocolate chip cookie recipe of all time?

[gummy]

I feel like I need to make some tonight and I've never found a recipe I love.

[isabel]

When you find it, let me know. I've used one before that had brown butter. That was delicious and probably as close as I've gotten to perfect. I don't like a lot of white sugar because I feel like there isn't much depth.

[charley]

I use this one every time. I made 84 little ones for a party this weekend and they went super fast.

[alexis]

I don't have a particular recipe to recommend, but I find shaping the dough into balls, freezing and putting them in the oven frozen makes the best cookies.

Since the dough is frozen the outside edges and bottom of the cookie are crisp while the center is still chewy. The texture is amazing.

Also use real butter. Always.

[puddleofgrace]

[TR]

Jun 27, 2016 10:20:15 GMT -5 puddleofgrace said:

You totally beat me, but I don't even care because it's so great.

[donthasslethehoff]

I have it and I swear it's the best I've ever tried and the 100+ people who have eaten them agree. My aunt got it a bunch of years ago and it was advertised as a knock off of Mrs. Fields cookies.

Warning: This makes 112 cookies. I've tried to cut the recipe in half, and it doesn't taste the same. Freeze the extra dough and you're good. Also people love raw cookie dough so there's that.

Ingredients:
2 cups of white sugar
2 cups of brown sugar (dark or light, doesn't matter)
4 eggs
4 sticks of butter I usually use salted and skip the salt below (softened)
4 cups of AP flour
5 cups of steel cut oats
2 tsp of baking powder
2 tsp of baking soda
2 tblsp of vanilla extract
2 bags of choc. chips. (I can't remember the weight of these. I want to say they're 12oz. bags)
1 tsp of salt


Take the 5 cups of oats and powderize them in a food processor so they resemble flour.

In a stand mixer, mix the softened butter with the sugars and add the vanilla. Add the eggs in 1 by 1. In a separate bowl, I mix the salt, flour, oats, baking soda and baking powder. With the mixer on low, I add about a cup of dry mixture in at a time and let mix until you can't see any dry ingredients. Once I've used up all the dry ingredients, I add in the choc chips. Put this in a container and let it chill. I usually do it overnight, but a few hours works.

You need to have an air bake cookie sheet. For whatever reason, this is important. Also, make sure you put the dough on the cookie sheet while the dough is cold. Set the oven to 350 and cook for between 9-10 minutes. It's going to look like cookies are hardly cooked, but they'll harden up a bit once you take them out. This makes the softest chewy cookies ever.

I've probably made this recipe over 100 times.

[puddleofgrace]

Jun 27, 2016 10:22:36 GMT -5 TR said:

Jun 27, 2016 10:20:15 GMT -5 puddleofgrace said:

You totally beat me, but I don't even care because it's so great.

Great minds, love!

[foodiemom]

These, hands down.

allrecipes.com/recipe/25037/best-big-fat-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookie/

[hungrycaterpillar]

I'm not sure but I bet Kanye West knows.

[sharknado]

The one that someone else bakes.

[Deleted]

These are the best. Soft all the way through.

pinchofyum.com/the-best-soft-chocolate-chip-cookies

[litebright]

These are, hands down, the best ever.

www.somethingswanky.com/cooks-illustrated-thick-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/

The recipe is from Cook's Illustrated but different from the ATK recipe posted above. They're like bakery cookies -- you use about 1/4 c. dough for each one, so they're huge and thick and OMG, so good. I always make them with M&Ms instead of chocolate chips.

[janegold]

I honestly love the Nestle Tollhouse recipe best but I undercook them just a bit.

[liverandonions]

I love this recipe for the cookies-Adding ice cream is optional

www.bakedbyrachel.com/homemade-ice-cream-sandwiches/

[cajunmom]

My favorite is the Toll House recipe. The only changes I make is use all brown sugar instead of half brown and half white, and I chill the dough. All of these recipes that claim to be perfectly chewy or whatever...any recipe can be perfectly chewy if you treat it right. The butter needs to be soft but not melted when added and chilling or freezing the dough will do the trick.

www.verybestbaking.com/recipes/18476/original-nestle-toll-house-chocolate-chip-cookies/#sm.0000khooj3ajte0qwqe26vnbby5n6

[ifElse]

Buzzfeed did a whole segment looking for the best chocolate chip cookie recipe not that long ago. They determined the best recipes for classic, crispy, and cakey cookies. Note I haven't tried any of them yet, but I did bookmark it for future reference

Other then that, I've never had complaints with the standard nestle tollhouse recipe.

www.buzzfeed.com/lindsayhunt/ultimate-chocolate-chip-cookies?utm_term=.yqXeBka66o#.bi3alK7LLn

[jinkies]

I strongly prefer soft cookies, and have found that cookies that call for a box of pudding mix are the way to go for that.

I haven't made "pure" chocolate chip cookies in a while, because this recipe that includes Oreo pudding mix and cookies-and-cream bars in addition to choc chips is my family's very favorite:

www.the-girl-who-ate-everything.com/2011/05/oreo-pudding-cookies.html

[meltoine]

Food Lab.

[kitkat2613]

Smitten Kitchen is my current favourite. smittenkitchen.com/blog/2015/04/salted-chocolate-chunk-cookies/

[pantsparty]

These are amazing, but grating chocolate is a BITCH. You'll also need cake flour, which I don't have on hand unless I'm making these cookies. But it's worth it. These are so so good!

www.othersideoffifty.com/2010/08/new-york-times-chocolate-chip-cookies.html?m=1

[Deleted]

Jun 27, 2016 10:31:09 GMT -5 litebright said:

These are, hands down, the best ever.

www.somethingswanky.com/cooks-illustrated-thick-chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/

The recipe is from Cook's Illustrated but different from the ATK recipe posted above. They're like bakery cookies -- you use about 1/4 c. dough for each one, so they're huge and thick and OMG, so good. I always make them with M&Ms instead of chocolate chips.

Yessssss. These are amazing.

[Deleted]

The nestle toll house cookie recipe BUT with ghiradelli semi sweet chips and kerrygold butter. 

[qcinoct]

theperfectchocolatechipcookie.com/instruct.php

this is truly the best recipe. Love, love, love it

[sporky]

These are the best ever: www.food.com/recipe/secret-recipe-chocolate-chip-cookies-104659

[gummybear]

I like the one on the back of the Kirkland chip bag
www.mayheminthekitchen.com/old-fashioned-chocolate-chip-cookies/

[CurlyQ284]

My friend made this one when I visited last weekend. Seriously amazing. A.ma.zing.

So soft in the middle!

picky-palate.com/2011/04/07/brown-butter-and-fleur-de-sel-chocolate-chip-cookies/

[cookietime]

My recipe is similar to the one posted by donthasslethehoff, - I think I started with the same recipe and then experimented with it for a few years.

1/2 cup butter, melted (1 stick)
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 tablespoon milk
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup oats, blended (if you're feeling fancy you can sift it too, and get it really fine, but it's not necessary. It's 1 cup before blending, not after)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup chocolate chips (or more, whatever)

Mix melted butter with the sugars. Then mix in egg, milk, and vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine flour, blended oats, salt, and baking soda. Mix the dry ingredients into the wet until thoroughly combined. Add the chocolate chips. Chill for at least 20 minutes before scooping balls onto a cookie sheet and baking at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes (until just a little browned on the edges). I like them gooey, so I usually underbake them a bit.

And it freezes really well. I usually roll the dough into a couple logs, wrap in parchment paper and stick them in a ziplock bag in the freezer. Then slice and bake straight from frozen. Or just eat the dough, like I usually do.

It makes about 2 dozen cookies.

[sunshineandpinot]

Okay, who is from Houston? pagas? Have you ever had the choc chip cookie from Tiny Boxwood? How do we get this recipe? What is the secret? They are flippin' fantastic!!!!!Best choc chip cookie I have ever put in my mouth.
(disclaimer- I make choc chip cookies all the time.... for the dough. Probably why I need to lose 10#. And all cookie dough is delish!)

[Deleted]

My three favorites are:

New York Times
Alton Brown #10
America's Test Kitchen (but add a little extra salt)