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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

Dec 17, 2023 · 3 Comments

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Collage with a bakery style chocolate chip cookie on a wire cooling rack on top, a cookie being pulled in half showing gooey melted chocolate chips on bottom, and the words "chocolate chip cookies" in the center.

Thick and decadent Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies with soft, chewy, buttery centers and slightly crispy edges, plus plenty of gooey melted chocolate chips. Make these cookies in less than 30 minutes!

A stack of bakery style chocolate chip cookies sitting on a linen napkin. The top cookie has a bite taken out.

Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

These Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are quite possibly the easiest cookie recipe on this site, and they look and taste like bakery quality. You can whip them up from start to finish (including baking time!) in less than 30 minutes.

These Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are chewy, thick, and soft in the center with just slightly crisp edges, and of course plenty of gooey, melty chocolate chips. The buttery, sweet vanilla cookies are the perfect base for those rich, indulgent chocolate chips.

They're simple to make with no need to chill, and they can even be made ahead and frozen!

Do I Have to Chill My Cookie Dough?

No. In fact, if you make your cookies ahead of time and need to chill the dough, leave it out for 30 minutes to come back to room temperature before baking. Chilled dough in this recipe will leave you with undone centers and too-crispy edges.

Unchilled dough, straight from mixer to the oven, will give you the perfectly soft, chewy cookies you're dreaming of.

An uncooked chocolate chip cookie dough ball with extra chocolate chips stuck on top.

Bakery Trick to Make Your Cookies Look Extra Pretty

Ever wonder why actual bakery chocolate chip cookies look so much more appetizing than the ones made at home? That's because they're using this little trick to make them look extra pretty, chocolatey, and indulgent.

After scooping your cookie dough onto your baking sheet, press a few extra chocolate chips gently on top of the ball. They can be close together because they'll spread as they bake. It makes a huge difference! (For reference, you can see I didn't do this in the video, but I did for the pictures in this post. Crazy, right?!)

What Kind of Chocolate Should I Use?

For bakery quality cookies, use high quality chocolate. Generic chocolate chips are great for kids and school parties and will honestly still taste amazing. For that extra luxurious decadence, opt for higher quality chips or chunks.

As far as the sweetness, that choice is yours. I prefer the semi-sweet because I like that it counters the sweetness of the cookie itself without being quite as bitter as a dark chocolate. However, you can use dark, semi-sweet, sweet, white, or milk chocolate.

A bakery style chocolate chip cookie sitting on a second cookie with a linen napkin.

Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe Variations

I like to pretty much leave this recipe alone, as it has gone through lots of testing to make sure all ratios, times, etc. are exactly what they need to be. However, adding some extras into them? The more, the merrier!

  • Baking Chips - You can use any kind of chocolate, including white, milk, semi-sweet, or dark. But you can also use other flavors of baking chips such as peanut butter, butterscotch, mint, toffee, or cinnamon!
  • Nuts - Add ½ cup of chopped nuts such as pecans or walnuts. Or get creative with your cookie nuts and add some chopped peanuts, macadamias, or pistachios.
  • Dried Fruit - Add a little fruity freshness with dried cherries, cranberries, or blueberries.
  • Pretzels - Add some crunch saltiness with pieces of chopped pretzels, like in these pretzel toffee cookies with the same cookie base.
  • Sprinkles - Add some festive color and fun! Mix some sprinkles right into the dough or sprinkle some on top just before baking.
  • Flaky Salt - If you love that salty-sweet combo, sprinkle a little bit of flaky sea salt on these cookies just after baking.
A chocolate chip cookies being pulled in half showing gooey melted chocolate chips in the center.

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  • Butterfinger Cookies - Chewy cookies with Butterfinger bits baked right in. The Butterfingers melt and caramelize as they bake, giving you the ultimate chewy cookie bites.
  • Funfetti Cookies - These fun cookies are as pretty to look at as they are delicious to eat. Vanilla cookies with soft, chewy centers and rainbow sprinkles and just-right crisp edges.

Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies Video

Bakery Style Chocolate Chip cookie on a wire cooling rack with more cookies behind.

Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

Thick and decadent Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies with soft, chewy, buttery centers and slightly crispy edges, plus plenty of gooey melted chocolate chips. Make these cookies in less than 30 minutes!
5 from 2 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Bakery Chocolate Chip Cookies, Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 13 minutes minutes
Total Time: 28 minutes minutes
Servings: 36 cookies
Calories: 176kcal
Author: Michelle
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Ingredients

  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup butter room temperature
  • 1¼ cups firmly packed brown sugar
  • ¼ cup white granulated sugar
  • 2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 large eggs
  • 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
  • In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
  • In a separate large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
  • Add vanilla and beat with a mixer on medium speed until well blended.
  • Beat in eggs, one at a time, mixing well.
  • Add flour mixture and beat slowly until fully combined.
  • Fold in chocolate chips.
  • Scoop about 2 tablespoons of cookie dough with a cookie scoop and drop onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or silicone mat, making sure cookies are at least 2 inches apart
  • Bake in a 325°F oven for 12-13 minutes, or until the edges are slightly browned. Middles will still look under-done. Allow to cool on the baking tray for 5 minutes before transferring to a cooling rack.

Notes

  • Pro Tip: Press some extra chocolate chips into the tops of the unbaked cookie balls to make them look professional quality.
  • Make Ahead: You can make the cookie dough and chill it in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Allow to come to room temperature then continue with step 7.
  • Storage: Cookies stay fresh covered at room temperature for up to 1 week.
  • Freezer Directions: Baked cookies freeze well for up to 3 months. Unbaked cookie dough balls freeze well for up to 3 months. Bake frozen cookie dough balls for an extra minute, no need to thaw.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 176kcal | Carbohydrates: 22g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 110mg | Potassium: 80mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 176IU | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg
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UPDATE INFO: This post was originally published in August 2014. It was updated with new pictures, tips, and video and republished in December 2023.

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  1. Tshanina | Thrifty T's Treasures says

    September 13, 2014 at 9:40 am

    Who doesn't love chocolate chip cookies! Yummy!

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  2. Maranda says

    May 18, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    These are the absolute best cookies on earth, I had been searching for a bakery cookie recipe for years and these are amazing! The mix of shortening and butter give them the perfect consistency and taste! Thank you for making this recipe, now my favorite cookie recipe. 💗 I need to figure out how to make them gluten free now.

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  3. Judy says

    August 08, 2021 at 1:26 pm

    I finally made these for my hubs (and me lol) and they are AMAZING!!! I got 4 dozen out of this recipe and in a few different sizes....... Will definitely be making this recipe again. Thank you for sharing! <3

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