You Deserve a Treat: The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Ever

Hello everyone and happy… what day is it again??

Well, like promised, I want to share with you the best chocolate chip cookie recipe I have found! I usually try to find delicious, healthy recipes for you guys, but this has to be shared! First, however, in true recipe fashion, a story of how it came to be. I know you know that all recipes online now start with a story; mine will at least be very short!

My husband and I are on quarantine time and quarantine rules, which basically means that I pretty much only check the clock so I know when to teach Zoom classes. Besides that, we do what the quarantine tells us! PJs all day? Yes. French fries and queso for dinner? Yes. Cookies for breakfast? YESSS! I promise you these are all based on real life occurrences of the past WEEK. So unhealthy, but alas, this is life now.

Anywho, I found myself seriously craving cookie dough, which of course we do not have because we’ve only been “essential” shopping. Also, it was way past curfew, so I couldn’t just go buy some. I tried to think of other things, but I couldn’t! Well, I’ve figured out what it means to be a real adult: having all of the ingredients to make chocolate chip cookies from scratch at midnight already in your pantry. We didn’t have chocolate chips, but Nik’s mom sent us an Easter basket, so I thought I could just crush some chocolate eggs (it worked!). I figured we might as well bake the cookies if we were going to go through all this trouble, so I asked Nik to find the quickest recipe online and we stumbled upon GOLD! Let me tell you, these were amazing! We only made half a batch, and I am so thankful because we would still be eating cookies. 

Before I present you with the recipe, I strongly suggest going on the website and reading all the helpful notes here: The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Ever. The most important one being “DO NOT over-bake these chocolate chip cookies! These chocolate chip cookies will not look done when you pull them out of the oven, and that is GOOD.”

I also want to preface by saying that I am not a great baker. I am the master of burning cookies because they just don’t look ready yet! I kid you not (and my sister loves to tell this story) there was a time I pulled completely burnt cookies out of the oven and upon setting them on the counter one of the burst aflame. I wish I was lying. So please take the doughy looking cookies out when the recipe suggests. I beg you! 

Get ready for your life to change:

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
  • In a separate bowl mix flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder. Set aside.
  • Cream together butter and sugars until combined.
  • Beat in eggs and vanilla until fluffy.
  • Mix in the dry ingredients until combined.
  • Add 12 oz package of chocolate chips and mix well.
  • Roll 2-3 TBS (depending on how large you like your cookies) of dough at a time into balls and place them evenly spaced on your prepared cookie sheets. (alternately, use a small cookie scoop to make your cookies)!
  • Bake in preheated oven for approximately 8-10 minutes. Take them out when they are just BARELY starting to turn brown.
  • Let them sit on the baking pan for 2 minutes before removing to cooling rack.

Again, here is the website: The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Ever.

I dare you to find an easy, more delicious recipe! But if you have it, please share!

Speaking of sharing, home recipes are how I’m keeping my sanity! All recipes suggestions are welcome! I also have an instant pot and an air fryer, so if any of you are looking for ideas, I have some too!

Hoping you have all found a way to stay sane and safe!

Catch you next time!

Mar