Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever

I find it absolutely catastrophic that since my website launched 9 years ago, it has never featured a simple Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. I need the *shock/horror/hands on cheeks* emoticon. Aaaaaaah!!!

The only other recipe I had added which is a distant cousin of the choc chip cookie was an oatmeal choc chip cookie recipe I found on my travels to Bergville.

My boys and I make choc chip cookies all the time and I always make a mental note that “I really should add this to the website” – as you can tell, my mental notes can go on for years.

Better late than never, right? Hee.

Now, Choc Chip Cookies as simple as they may sound, can be tricky things to get right. Don’t get me wrong, they are easy to make, but difficult to master. We want a cookie that is crispy on the outside, soft on the inside, not too flat or too puffy  or too hard or too cracked or too undercooked or too overcooked or too greasy or too chewy. See, we can get fussy about our choc chip cookies. But, those things aside, you are going to learn how to make some pretty perfect chocolate chip cookies right here!

The batter always tastes good and I continually have to shoo away little hands attempting to sneak in another spoonful of mixture. Okay I try and sneak a spoonful in too without them seeing.

The cardinal rule of choc chip cookie making is: Don’t overdo anything! Don’t overmix and don’t overcook.

What I love most about choc chip cookies, besides eating the batter and besides eating the cookies, is that the recipe can be whipped up in less than 10 minutes and then you only have to be separated from them for 10 or so minutes whilst they are in the oven. So in 30 minutes you have completely constructed 12 discs of happiness to share (or not). Choc chip cookies are also easy for kids to make – a perfect recipe to introduce them to baking AND this recipe has less sugar than most – as a mom of 3 boys, I am totally doing a fist pump at that mere fact. The recipe also only makes 12 cookies so if you are a family of 5 like us, that’s 2 each and 2 leftover for a friend or neighbour (or mom and dad get another one each mwhhaaaaa hah hah).

Allow the cookies  to cool for 20-30 minutes before eating. This is key!! I know it’s tempting and totally normal to want to have at least one as soon as they come out the oven, but letting them cool makes the whole chocolate chip eating experience so much better!

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