The Best Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies
The best homemade chocolate chip cookies are my family's favorite take on the classic sweet. Featuring the perfect ratio of butter, sugars and flour, the cookies will be gone nearly as fast as you as make them!
Servings: 18 cookies
Calories: 211kcal
Ingredients
- 12 tbsp unsalted butter
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- ⅔ cup brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 ¾ cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup chocolate chips I used mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan on the stove over medium-low heat..
- Reduce the heat to low and stir or whisk in the white and brown sugars. Cook over low heat until the sugars have begun to melt into the butter.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and allow to cool for 5-10 minutes.
- Add the egg and vanilla and stir until combined.
- Stir in the salt and baking soda.
- Add the flour, stirring in ¼-½ cup at a time until the flour is incorporated and all of the ingredients are smooth.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Drop by large spoonfuls on a baking sheet and bake for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Allow the cookies to cool and dig in!
Notes
If using a small cookie scoop, you should be able to get about 2 dozen cookies from the batter.
Nutrition
Calories: 211kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 77mg | Potassium: 30mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 18g | Vitamin A: 269IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 24mg | Iron: 1mg