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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Published: Aug 4, 2019 · Modified: May 25, 2022 by Lois · This post may contain affiliate links.

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My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies are my favorite wheat-based chocolate chip cookies. This typical Tollhouse Cookie is so good, but there's a trick.

My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Made with Wheat Flour

My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Made with Wheat Flour

My best chocolate chip cookies are easy enough for kids to make

August 4 is National Chocolate Chip Day, so today I'm posting one of my all-time favorite recipes, My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies (that aren't gluten free).

My husband Don is a purist. He thinks you should always use natural ingredients when you cook. He would never use margarine in anything, especially cookies. Generally, I agree with him. But I use margarine instead of butter in this recipe because these cookies turn out better. I usually use margarine because I think it makes the cookies fluffy. When I use butter in these cookies, they flatten out; I like my cookies to be bigger and chewier.

What's the Trick to Chewy Cookies?

The secret to chewy cookies is to use cold margarine or butter and undercook the cookies a little bit. That is, take them out before they turn brown, when they just have a tinge of brown on them. Then they will be chewy.

Similar to Tollhouse Cookies

This recipe is similar to the Nestle Tollhouse Cookie recipe on the chocolate morsels' package, but I change the ratio of sugar. I like brown sugar better than granulated sugar. If you prefer Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies, try Chewy Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies. Don and I both love these.

What You Need

For this recipe, you will need measuring cups and spoons, a big bowl, an electric mixer, and some kind of cookie sheet and spatula. However, if you are planning to do much baking, I recommend you get Calphalon Jelly Roll pans instead of "cookie sheets." Cookie sheets don't have an edge on them and you can't use them for cakes or other cooking. A Jelly Roll pan is more versatile. And Calphalon has a terrific non-stick surface.

Calphalon Cooling Racks are also helpful (I love mine!), but you can cool your cookies on paper bags that you cut open and lay flat, so they aren't critical. Whatever you buy, get the best product you can afford. But what you really want is a terrific kitchen stove and espresso machine, right?

My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe with Wheat Flour

My Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

Adriana
Chewy, rich chocolate chip cookies
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 8 mins
Total Time 18 mins
Course Cookies, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup cold margarine (or butter)
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 12-ounce package NESTLE® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 375F degrees.
  • In a large bowl, cream the margarine, sugars, eggs, and vanilla. The margarine will not be creamed entirely; it will be cut into tiny pieces.
  • Add the salt and baking soda. Mix.
  • Add the flour, one cup at at time, and mix thoroughly.
  • Add the chocolate chips and mix well.
  • Use a soup spoon to measure the cookies. Using a heaping spoonful, drop the cookies about 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet.
  • There is no need to grease the cookie sheet.
  • Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the cookies are beginning to brown slightly.
  • Note: If you take them out when they are barely starting to brown, they will be chewy. Or, if you prefer crunchy cookies, bake them until they are entirely brown (2-3 minutes more than for chewy cookies).

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    The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies (not gluten free) Nutrition Label. Each serving is one cookie.

    The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies (not gluten free) Nutrition Label. Each serving is one cookie.

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