Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

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No joke. These award winning soft chocolate chip cookies will win the hearts of your family and friends no matter the season!

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Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hello and welcome! If you’re here, you’re obviously on the hunt for the best possible homemade chocolate chip cookies available on the internet. Well lucky for you, these award winning cookies are jussst what you’re looking for. When I say award winning, I mean it! These cookies won me first place in multiple fun baking competitions. Mainly between friends, family and co-workers. A win is a win right?! More importantly, these mouth-watering cookies won for a reason – because they are THAT good.

I love to make these because I know how much guests enjoy them and because they are seriously simple. No weird ingredients that you’d have to order from overseas. No complex directions like freezing half your egg before mixing. None of that nonsense. Although I’m sure funky steps could make huge impacts, these classic cookies get the job done without all the noise.

How To Make Award Winning Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oh, I’m so happy you asked 🙂 Start by gathering your ingredients, preheating your oven and then making magic happen! Read below for all the details.

Ingredients & Equipment

The ingredients you’ll need are flour, salt, baking soda, vanilla extract, chocolate chips (mini or normal morsels), unsalted butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and 1 egg. The equipment you’ll need is an oven (of course), a mixer, measuring utensils, a cookie sheet, parchment paper if you’d like, a cooling rack and a sheet pan.

Instructions

Okay lets get down to it! First, preheat that oven. 350 degrees is where you’ll want to be before baking your cookies.

Now, lets mix the dry ingredients. Combine the flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl and set to the side while we work on the wet ingredients. It’s very important to pay attention here – the key is to NOT OVERMIX. That means minimal mixing, okay? So, add your softened butter to your mixer. If you didn’t soften your butter, no problem! Throw that stick of unsalted butter in the microwave for 5-8 seconds. I know, I know. This is taboo but it literally always works for me. You just need your butter to be soft enough. Now, add 6 tablespoons of granulated sugar to the butter and 1/2 a cup of brown sugar. Mix until fully blended. This is the one step where overmixing is not an issue.

Okay, now we’re onto the part where you CANNOT OVERMIX! Add your egg and 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract to the butter mixture. Blend until just combined. Now, slowly add your flour mix to your bowl a little bit at a time. Once all of the flour is in the mixing bowl let combine for about 10 seconds and stop your mixer. I know this seems weird, but you still want to see the white flour coating the dough.

Remove your bowl from the mixing stand and add your chocolate chips. Combine using your hands. This may take a minute because a lot of the chips fall to the bottom of the bowl. That’s totally fine!

Now it’s time to make your dough balls. If your cookie dough feels super sticky and warm, place it in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes. The dough doesn’t need to be super cold but it should be overly sticky in your hands. Create cookie dough balls about 1-1.5 inches in diameter and place 2 inches apart on a parchment covered sheet pan. My photo below does not show parchment paper because guess what, I RAN OUT! Of course. That wasn’t going to stop me from sharing my recipe.

Place dough into preheated oven for 8.5-9.5 minutes. Timing will depend on the size of your dough balls. Remove from the oven and let sit about a minute on the pan and then transfer to a cooling rack. Last big detail here – Let these rest. FULLY. I’m talking overnight if possible but if not, 3-4 hours. You can eat them before then but these cookies finish cooking while they cool. You can also add a pinch of salt to them as soon as they come out of the oven.

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Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Enjoy this baking experience and the delicious treat that soon awaits your taste buds! P.S. Sprinkle a little extra salt on top for some real pizzazz!

Notes For Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

DO NOT OVER MIX. Don’t let this scare you! Read the directions ahead of time and you’ll be good to go.

DO NOT OVER COOK! It feels weird pulling these out early but trust me, they finish cooking as they cool. Make sure you give them the time they need, ~4 hours

If you do want to eat these right away, that’s okay. I get it! Just make sure you let them cook fully in the oven so they are safe for your loved ones to enjoy right away!

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