Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (2024)

These Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are a one bowl and no chill wonder. They’re lovely and soft like New York style cookies, packed with chocolate and you can have them ready to eat in under 30 minutes. Fair warning, you will want more!

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These cookies are a riff on my Chewy Ginger and Chewy Gingerbread Cookies which I have been making for many many years. I started experimenting with different flavours and combinations using the same basic method a while back. I’m now super pleased with this chocolate chip version.

They have a great hit of vanilla alongside the chocolate. And they retain the chewy interior and slight crispiness on the edges of the original recipes. It has not been any kind of hardship eating my way through several batches of these bad boys. I had to get them just right!

Despite being British, I fully consider this recipe to be for cookies and not biscuits. I know that technically, cookies are the US equivalent of British biscuits. And they are all really the same thing. But I always consider soft and chewy biscuits to be cookies. And hard varieties like shortbread to be biscuits.

These are essentially New York style Chocolate Chip Cookies so lets just forget semantics and call them cookies!

If you are looking for what Americans call biscuits, then make sure to have a look at my Buttermilk Biscuit recipe. Don’t forget the traditional Sausage Gravy to serve with them. But do not under any circ*mstances try serving sausage gravy with these cookies!

How to Serve Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are so soft that they don’t need any dunking. But my goodness do I love to dunk them in a good cup of tea or coffee. Just make sure to hit that dunking sweet spot or you’ll lose them to the depths of your mug!

Mostly these are just cookies. You are going to grab one when you fancy one. But sometimes I fancy them up and make them into a more complete dessert. To do this I might warm them slightly in the microwave and top with ice cream or even just a bit of cheeky whipped cream.

They are also an amazing start for ice cream sandwiches. Just throw a scoop of ice cream between 2 of the cookies and eat. Or you can make them up, pop them back in the freezer and grab them out when you want them. Personally the concept of biting into ice cream is a bit horrifying but I know that folks love them!

Make Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies into a Feast

I truly believe that you can make any dish into a proper feast! Whether thats a feast for one after work on a Tuesday, a casual feast for four on a Friday evening or a feast for 12 for a special occasion!

With a cookie, a feast really is just a plate of them and a very American glass of milk or much more British cup of tea. It can’t hurt a jot to whip up a batch of Chewy Ginger Cookies for some variety on that plate though!

What these cookies do make is an excellent gift. Whether you dress them up as Christmas cookies, Easter cookies or just a friendly gift at any time. Throw in a bag of Popcorn Snack Mix and some Choc Orange Muffins and you’ll have friends for life.

They are also an excellent addition to a bake sale. They are quick and easy to whip up alongside some easy Scones, Vanilla Butterfly Cakes and Chorizo Rose Tarts.

Don’t forget to head over to myFeast Collectionpages to find all of my tips and tricks to help you host a fun and stress-free feast. Plus remember to check outmy recipe indexto create your own awesome Feast!

Ingredients for Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Golden Syrup

I am aware that Golden Syrup really is a British product with no direct equivalent often available in other countries. You can substitute molasses for a slightly darker cookie or corn syrup for a lighter, less rich cookie.

Honey would be a great alternative but obviously that is going to change the flavour profile a little.

Or, you canmake your own homemade golden syrup.

Chocolate

I have simple stated “chocolate” in the recipe. You can use whatever you prefer. I most often choose to use a mixture of dark, milk and white chocolates. You can use one or the other or a combination as you wish.

I have used bars of chocolate and then cut them into chunks. This is so I could have some larger chunks and some smaller shards throughout the cookies. Its also a great way of using up any odds and sods of chocolate kicking about in the baking drawer.

There is no issue with using chocolate chips, ready chopped chunks or buttons if that is what you have or prefer.

I know so many bakers and recipe creators insist on nothing but the best 70%+ cocoa solids chocolate. But I don’t really mind. I like cheap chocolate and thats what I mostly use.

Just as with the type and shape of chocolate you choose to use, you can decide what quality and price point you want to go for too.

Sugar

I have chosen to use a 50/50 mix of light brown and granulated sugar in this cookie recipe. Different sugars will affect the texture and flavour of the cookies. And of all the experiments I tried, this was the combination that worked best.

That isn’t really to say that the other combos were bad. If you only have granulated/regular sugar, caster/superfine sugar or brown, then go ahead and use what you have. The outcome will be slightly different but not massively so.

Be Flexible

You can easily vary the size of the cookies, just make sure to adjust the cooking time accordingly. 24 smaller cookies will cook in less time that 12 regular sized cookies. Equally 6 or 8 giant cookies will take a little longer. Not a lot mind you, so keep an eye on them.

I’ve already suggested that you can switch up the chocolate as you please. So if you are looking for white chocolate cookies or pure dark chocolate cookies, you are still in the right place.

The base cookie flavouring is vanilla. You can mix this up by adding or replacing with another flavouring such as orange or lemon. You could even just add the fresh zest.

The easiest way to be flexible with this recipe is to choose how thick you want to make them. Barely flatten the balls for true New York style cookies or press them right down for a thinner and slightly crispier version.

Make it Vegetarian or Vegan

This recipe is suitable for vegetarians as written.

To make the recipe vegan suitable, you will need to use a dairy free baking fat instead of butter and replace each egg with 1 tbsp vegetable oil. And use vegan chocolate/chocolate chips.

Make it Allergy Friendly

This recipe is free from nuts.

Gluten Free: Replace the flour in the recipe with a free from alternative such as this option from Free From Fairy. You can use this flour as a straight swap but you will need to add baking powder to turn it into self raising. You should add 1 tsp gluten free baking powder for every 100g flour.

Dairy Free: To create dairy free cookies, simply switch the butter for a dairy free alternative.

Egg Free: Replace the egg with 1 tbsp vegetable oil. Easy!

Please note that this recipe may contain other allergens not referred to above and any variations suggested have not been tested unless otherwise stated. For more information regarding any dietary information provided on this website, please refer to my Nutritional Disclaimer.

Equipment Notes for Choc Chip Cookies

There is no need to use any kind of electric mixer. Aeration isn’t required and it will ultimately make the biscuits tough.

If you don’t have amicrowave, you can melt the butter and syrup etc in amedium saucepanon a low heat. You can carry on and use the saucepan as the mixing bowl for the rest of the recipe.

A good sharp knife is needed to chop the chocolate bars. I use the largest I have and use my free hand to press down on the other end of the knife so the chocolate doesn’t go flying everywhere.

A really good sized baking tray will help you to be able to spread out the cookies enough. But you can always use multiple smaller trays if you need to.

A comprehensive list of the equipment used to make this recipe is included in the main recipe card below. Click on any item to see an example. There are no hard and fast rules so many items can be sensibly substituted to achieve the same results.

Get Ahead

Because of the bicarbonate of soda starting to react with the dough as soon as you add it, I don’t recommend making the dough in advance and then baking it.

You can however make it, freeze it straight away and bake from frozen. Just bear in mind that the cooking time will be slightly longer when cooking from frozen.

Leftover Cookies

Stale biscuits or cookies can often be revived quite quickly with a 10 or 15 second blast in the microwave. Or a dunk in a cup of tea!

If they’re beyond that help, then they can crumbled on top of ice cream. Or whizzed up to make the base of a cheesecake. They’re also fab as the base for a simple banoffee pie.

Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Tips

To make truly thick New York style cookies like the ones the internet goes nuts for from Levain Bakery, don’t press down the balls at all. Dip em in the chocolate topping but otherwise leave them as balls. They’ll spread less and stay gooey in the middle.

For crispier little numbers, give em a good old press and cook them for a minute of two longer.

I love to eat cookie dough. This one is no exception. It does contain egg but that doesn’t bother me. It’s your call if it bothers you.

Make sure to leave enough room on the tray for the cookies to spread. The eagle eyed amongst you might note that my tray were a little touchy touchy. It doesn’t really matter but if you want perfect rounds then leave a bit more room.

Don’t forget to let me know in the comments if you try making this recipe – I want to know what you think and if you made any substitutions, how did it turn out?

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