Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

It was my boss' birthday last week and I am such a good employee that I made her favorite - chocolate chip cookies!  Everyone at work who tried them love them.  I think this recipe has to be one of the best chocolate chip cookies I've made.  The cookies are not too thin.  They are crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside.   Somehow this recipe has been the best and the cookies are absolutely delicious!  

 

Here are two of my previous chocolate chip cookies recipes (among several other cookies recipes):

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies - These cookies are thinner, chewy in the middle and crisp on the outside.

Chocolate Chip Cookies - These cookies are soft and chewy.

 

Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Printable Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup butter

½ cup sugar

1 ½ cup brown sugar

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla

2 ¾ cup flour

¾ teaspoons salt

1 teaspoons baking soda

1 ½  teaspoon baking powder

2 ¼ cup chocolate chips

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

In a stand mixer, beat butter and sugars until light and fluffy.

Slowly beat in eggs, one at a time.  Add in vanilla.

In a bowl, whisk flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder to mix.

Slowly add in flour mixture to mixer until combined.

Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased baking pans.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.

Cool on wire cooling racks.

Makes about 3 dozen cookies.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

I finally tried the Joy of Baking recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies, click here for the original recipe. I did adapt the recipe, because I always like to add in extra vanilla and I don't always follow directions.  I wanted to see how these cookies compared to my classic chocolate chip cookies recipe.  In comparison, the classic chocolate chip cookies are thin and more crisp than these chocolate chip cookies from Joy of Baking.  These chocolate chip cookies were soft and chewy.  I brought these into work recently and they were a hit!  

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Printable Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature

¾ cup granulated sugar

¾ cup brown sugar, firmly packed

2 eggs

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1 ½ cups chocolate chips, semisweet

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

In the bowl of your stand mixer, add butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar.  Beat until creamy and fluffy.

Beat in eggs, one at a time.

Add vanilla.

In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda and salt. 

Slowly add in dry ingredients to egg mixture (about ½ cup at a time). 

Stir in chocolate chips.

Drop cookie dough by tablespoon onto baking sheets. 

Bake 10 to 14 minutes or until golden brown around the edges.

Cool cookies completely on wire racks.

Makes about 40 cookies.