RECIPE VIDEO ABOVE. These may well be the easiest chocolate chip cookies in the world! These are big, soft, buttery and are made without a beater, no creaming butter, no refrigeration required and no rolling the dough into the balls. Adapted from Cooks Illustrated. Makes 13 large or 26-30 small. {This recipe will work no matter which country you live in - see Note 5. High altitude baking - see Note 6.}
Prep time: PT10M
Cook time: PT22M
Total time: PT32M
Rating
4.97 stars (207 reviews)
Keywords
Chocolate chip cookie recipe
Ingredients
1 3/4 cups plain / all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
½ tsp baking soda ((bi carb soda))
175g / 12 tbsp unsalted butter (, cut into 2 cm/ 4/5" cubes (1.5 US sticks / 6 oz))
1/2 cup brown sugar (, packed (light or dark) (Note 1))
Preheat oven to 180C / 350F (standard) or 160C/320F (fan / convection). Place oven shelf in the middle of the oven.
Line 2 trays with baking / parchment paper.
Whisk the flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl.
Place the butter in a large heatproof bowl. Microwave until the butter is almost fully melted (25 sec for room temp butter, 40 sec for fridge cold butter on high).
Whisk to finish melting the butter. (Note 2)
Add brown and white sugar, whisk energetically for 15 seconds.
Add egg, yolk and vanilla, whisk well for 15 seconds.
Add flour mixture and mix until flour is almost fully incorporated.
Add 1 cup chocolate chips, stir to disperse and flour is fully incorporated. Batter will be quite loose.
Stand for 5 minutes for batter to firm up a bit so it is scoop-able into mounds. (Note 3)
LARGE COOKIES: Scoop up a level ice cream scoop / 3 tbsp / 1/4 cup (Note 4) and place on baking trays 5cm / 2" apart - 13 balls. Top with remaining choc chips (these remain on surface once baked = prettier).
SMALL COOKIES (26 - 30): Scoop up 1.5 tbsp (heaped tbsp measure) OR 1/2 an ice cream scoop (this works well). Place on baking trays 4cm / 1.75" apart, top with choc chops.
Bake 1 tray at a time. LARGE COOKIES: Bake for 8 minutes, then rotate the tray and bake for 3 minutes (11 minutes in total). SMALL COOKIES: Bake 6 minutes, turn then bake 3 minutes (9 min total). The cookies should be just golden on the edges and pale golden on top. They will be slightly puffed up.
Cool on the tray - they finish cooking. They will lose the puffiness while resting. Dig in and get your cookie fix!
Nutitrion
Serving Size: 74 g
Calories: 325 kcal
Reviews
Indi on 2026-03-20 (5 stars): best cookies everrrrr
(just a personal note: when I made the cookies flat and wide, they were perfect, but I had a little trouble when I wanted to try them a bit thicker, they were crumbly and not so soft. maybe I screwed something else up, but these cookies are best as flat ones!)
Rebekah on 2026-03-17 (5 stars): same!
Tamara on 2026-03-15 (5 stars): We make this recipe regularly! They truly are the perfect cookie. We double the batch, freeze half the raw dough. They defrost in the fridge over night and easy to cook in small batches when you need a quick cookie fix. Perfection!
RORIE ANN C QUIBAEL on 2026-03-03 (5 stars): Love it i made it myself! Bye the way im ten years old
RORIE ANN C QUIBAEL on 2026-03-03 (5 stars): Verry nice I love it! It is chewy, I made it myself! Bye the way I’m 10 years old. Love it miss Nagi!
Renee P on 2026-02-17 (5 stars): I love all of Nagi’s recipes and I use them as my only cookbooks. I never make substitutions because they are always perfect!
However, at my husband’s request (the chocolate chip hater- I’m not sure how we’re still married), I have used sultanas instead of chocolate chips.
He now requests I make him more of these, and keep a constant supply in the house.
So.. base recipe can be used for many different additions!
Olga on 2026-02-12 (5 stars): My favorite cookie is a chocolate chip cookie. These are truly perfect. I made the big size and they turned out so soft and chewy. 2 days later I had a half saved for myself and they were still so chewy and soft. Delicious. Not quiet as sweet as many other recipes but so good. Almost like a salted cookie, unless that was just my salted butter. I am fighting the urge to make them again right now. They really are easy. I ended up putting my bowl in the fridge for about 15 minutes and I used 2 eggs instead of separating 1 (I just hate throwing out or saving half an egg) thank you!
Audrey Weitz on 2026-02-04 (5 stars): Love this!!! They are super delicious and just the right amount of chewy!
Eliza on 2026-01-19 (5 stars): Absolutely a delight to cook!! Thank you so much for this recipe it was a definite HIT!!>3
Theresa on 2026-01-16 (5 stars): Is so yummy and so easy to bake. My 11 year old daughter bakes them for us by herself. She usually does the small batch and she usually does 6 minutes on both sides. Thanks for this amazing and yet so simple recipe!
Emelie Atad on 2026-01-12 (4 stars): This was an amazing recipe. But there was one problem, this may have been our fault. But when you put the cookies in the oven they melted till they were a giant puddle. We did everything the recipe said (I think), but our second tray turned out the same as well. Overall this recipe was amazing and I will definitely use it again.
julian on 2026-01-03 (5 stars): So yummy and soft! me and my sister cooked this and it was delish
Lee on 2025-12-08 (5 stars): Fail proof, simple to make and delicious. Wondering if I can flatten dough and make star shaped cookies for Christmas. Any suggestions?
Souzan on 2025-11-29 (5 stars): In the past I made these in the oven, now my oven is broken so I made them in the air fryer on bake option. They came out nice and gooey from the inside which my son loves it. I used the same cooking instructions in the recipe, the only thing is we can't flip them, they were browned from the top but the bottom was still light.
The flavour was perfect.
amalie on 2025-11-24 (5 stars): love these cookies, so easy to make and came out perfectly 😀
gaglia on 2025-11-20 (4 stars): yeah no so delish Nagiiii x
gaglia on 2025-11-20 (5 stars): HI, me again! xd. the kids fought back and i had no choice but to bite them x
Anna on 2025-11-15 (5 stars): I just adore your recipes, yet to find a dud one. But these cookies... Amazing! So so delicious and easy to make. I'm coeliac and so used gluten free plain flour and it tastes fantastic. Thank you!
Romain on 2025-11-12 (5 stars): Your recipes are always the best and simplest, i stopped comparing with other websites. It was 26 degrees in the house when we made them, no chilling, and they came out perfectly, crispy on the edges and chewy inside. It yielded 16 large cookies, the kids were blown away. Thank you.
