Easy and delicious Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies loaded with chocolate chips!
Why We Love These Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Affordable Luxury: Gourmet taste at home for less cost.
- Perfect Texture: Soft, chewy, and gooey like professional bakery cookies.
- Rich Chocolate Flavor: Extra chips on top for a chocolatey bite.
- Convenient Size & Tips: Easy-to-follow recipe for four large cookies.
- Cornstarch Secret: Makes cookies softer, thicker, and chewier.
Ingredients
- Butter: Adds richness and ensures chewiness; melted and cooled to prevent greasiness.
- Sugar: Brown sugar for moisture and caramel flavor, white sugar for crispiness.
- Egg: Binds ingredients and contributes to chewiness.
- Vanilla Extract: Enhances overall flavor.
- Cornstarch: Creates softer, thicker cookies.
- Baking Soda & Powder: Leavening agents for rise and spread.
- Flour: Provides structure.
- Chocolate Chips: Adds sweet, chocolatey bursts.
How To Make Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Melt and Cool Butter: Melt unsalted butter, then cool.
- Mix Sugars, Egg, Vanilla: Blend cooled butter with sugars, then add egg and vanilla.
- Add Dry Ingredients: Combine cornstarch, baking agents, and salt. Fold in flour.
- Stir in Chocolate Chips: Mix in chocolate chips.
- Chill Dough: Divide and chill the dough.
- Bake: Preheat oven, place dough on lined sheet, and bake until slightly underdone.
- Add Chocolate and Cool: Press extra chips on top, cool on tray, then move to rack.
Quick Tip
For reheating leftover cookies: Store in an airtight container at room temperature. Reheat in the microwave in 10-15 second increments until warm.
Tips For Success
- Line Tray: Use parchment or a Silpat to prevent crispy bottoms.
- Weigh Dough: Evenly divide dough using a scale.
- Flour Measurement: Spoon and level flour, don’t scoop.
- Mix Just Enough: Combine ingredients without overmixing.
- Extra Chips Post-Baking: Add chocolate chips after baking for extra flavor.
- Space Cookies: Bake the cookies with ample space between them.
More Amazing Cookie Recipes
- Snickerdoodles
- Oatmeal Cookies (or Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies)
- White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
- Caramel Oatmeal Cookies
- Chewy Peanut Butter Cookies
Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
Get ready to indulge in the ultimate treat with these easy and delicious Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies! These cookies are everything you love about a classic chocolate chip cookie, but with a bakery-style twist.
Equipment
- Sheet pan
- Parchment paper or a silicon baking mat
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar firmly packed
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt reduce if using table salt or if sensitive to salt
- 1-3/4 cups flour
- 1-1/2 cups milk chocolate chips or semi-sweet or dark chocolate—whichever is your favorite, divided
Instructions
- Melt butter in a very large, microwave-safe bowl. Once melted, refrigerate for 5 minutes. It’s important the butter isn’t hot when you add in the sugars or it will melt the sugar and make the cookies flat/greasy.
- Once butter is cooled to room temperature, mix in light brown sugar and granulated sugar. Stir until smooth. Add in egg and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth.
- Add cornstarch, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir until smooth. Add in the correctly measured flour (see note 1) and mix until just combined. Don’t overmix.
- Gently stir in 1 and 1/4 cups chocolate chips until combined. Separate dough into 4 equal parts. If you have a food scale, each ball should be a little over 6 ounces (170g). Place those balls of dough in an airtight container and chill for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 325℉. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper or a silicon baking mat.
- Place two dough balls at a time on the sheet pan, giving cookies plenty of space to spread.
- Bake 20–25 minutes, erring on the side of under-baking, which keeps them soft and chewy. The cookies will “bake” a little more out of the oven.
- Remove from oven and press the remaining 1/4 cup chocolate chips onto the tops of the cookies (ensures even placement of chocolate and also makes them look pretty!). Allow cookies to cool on the baking tray 10–15 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack. If you like salty-sweet flavors, add a few flakes of salt on top!
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Recipe Notes
Note 1: Spoon the flour into a measuring cup and level the top with the back of a table knife.
Storage: I like these cookies best the day they’re baked. They do last up to 1 week, but they begin to lose texture and flavor. To store, wait until cookies are completely cooled, then place in an airtight container and keep at room temperature. Rewarm in increments of 10–15 seconds in the microwave.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 883kcal | Carbohydrates: 117.5g | Protein: 11.7g | Fat: 41g | Cholesterol: 120.1mg | Sodium: 667mg | Fiber: 3.4g | Sugar: 69.4g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This recipe is fantastic! I LOVE chocolate chip cookies from Zoe’s and this recipe is even better! I used Nestle Toll House semi sweet chocolate chunks and they were devine. Highly recommend and will make again!
I am so thrilled to hear this! Thanks Cathy! 🙂
I made these today and hands down the most beautiful, decadent version of cookie bar ever to grace my kitchen counter then disappear! THANK YOU for your attention to detail in providing tips for best results. They were worth it!
I am SO thrilled to hear this! Thank you so much Shelleigh! 🙂
Hi there!
I’ve tried making your cookies twice now, but the same issue keeps happening. The cookie dough is always quite dry and crumbly and they never flatten out when baked. I measure all my ingredients out in grams and double/triple check with my measurements to make sure there isn’t any error in how they’re measured out. I also follow the instructions carefully and don’t skip any details (let the butter cool after melting, chill the dough, don’t over mix, etcetera) so I’m not sure what’s wrong. The taste is fine but it definitely has more of a floury/oatmeal cookie kind of taste. Are the gram measurements accurate? Should I add more wet ingredients like milk or an extra egg or subtract some of the flour? If you have any ideas on this that’d be great because I’d love to have them come out like you have here!
Thanks so much 🙏🏻 😊
Madison
Hey Madison! Couple thoughts, are you making the 6 ounce sized cookies? These aren’t meant to be smaller than that. Are you using a large (not medium) sized egg? I would start with 1/4 cup less flour next time, sorry you’re having this issue, I haven’t run into unless making the cookies smaller then they are definitely drier than they should be!
These are amazing! I receive a lot of compliments on them whenever I take them somewhere. This is the only chocolate chip cookie recipe I use.
I am so happy to hear this! Thank you Brittany! 🙂
Chelsea I have tried to find a chocolate chip cookie that is chewy yet has a bit height to it. Can these be made smaller like a regular cookie and what would you recommend timing to be?
Love the thoroughness of your recipes. I have used a number of them and are very pleased.
Thanks and from our house to yours may this be a Blessed Holiday and wonderful New Year !
Hey! I think you’re talking about these cookies: https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/, let me know if this isn’t what you’re looking for! Thank you so much for your kind words! I hope you have had a great Christmas and you have a wonderful New Years!
These are perfection.
Yay! So thrilled to hear that 🙂
I have to cut back on the,sugar.Way too sweet,for our taste.My boyfriend,bought milk chocolate chips.Told him,that I,useally buy semi sweet.Also, have to adjust the baking,temprature,and time,because of our oven.Going to try ,again tomorrow.
Very tasty cookies. Followed recipe to a T, but got a dry-ish dough. I added 3 tbsp water to get good dough consistency. Baked for 15 min. Portions were about 1/3 cup… Family favorite. Will not last the weekend!
So happy you enjoyed! Thanks Emily! 🙂
These sound great
Thank you!
Hello, are the 802 calories per cookie or the whole recipe?
Whoops! I updated the nutrition facts! Thanks Zee! 🙂