Dessert / Baked / Snack
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies made with softened butter, vanilla, and a mix of white and brown sugar.
Estimated times
- Cook
- 9–11 minutes per batch
- Stand
- At least 10 minutes
- Serving size / yield
- 3–4 dozen cookies
Cookies
Ingredients
- ¾ cup sugar
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, tightly packed
- 2 sticks (1 cup) butter, softened but not melted
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 eggs
- 2½–3 cups unsifted all-purpose flour, adjusted to batter thickness
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 12 ounces chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Mix 2½ cups flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl and set aside.
- Combine softened butter with white sugar and brown sugar and mix until combined.
- Add vanilla and mix completely.
- Add eggs one at a time, combining completely after each egg.
- Add the flour mixture in portions, combining completely after each addition. If the batter is not thick enough, add up to ½ cup more flour, a little at a time, until the desired thickness is reached.
- Mix in chocolate chips.
- Drop onto a baking sheet by rounded tablespoons.
- Bake for 9–11 minutes until golden brown and no longer wet-looking on top.
- Cool on a wire rack for at least 10 minutes.
Nutrition facts
- Serving size
- 1 cookie (1/42 of the batch)
- Calories
- 140
- Total fat
- 7.0 g
- Saturated fat
- 4.3 g
- Cholesterol
- 20 mg
- Sodium
- 90 mg
- Total carbohydrate
- 18.5 g
- Total sugars
- 11.9 g
- Added sugars
- 11.8 g
Estimated from generic ingredient profiles and a Nestlé Toll House semisweet chocolate-chip label proxy; not laboratory tested. Assumes 42 equal cookies, 2¾ cups flour (330 g), ¾ cup white sugar (148.5 g), ¾ cup packed brown sugar (159.8 g), unsalted butter, and 2 large eggs. At the same flour quantity, making 36 cookies gives about 165 calories each; 48 gives about 125. Flour quantity, cookie size, and chocolate brand change values. Salted butter adds about 35 mg sodium per cookie. Fiber and protein are omitted because the chocolate label reports each as less than 1 g per tablespoon, preventing a reliable total.