Classic Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

7 years ago

Everyone needs a go-to classic chocolate chip cookie recipe and this is ours! These cookies are delicious, chewy and super easy to make. You need just ten ingredients and less than 30 minutes to throw these together.

Ingredients

All you need is the following:

All-purpose flour
Salt
Baking soda
Cornstarch (this is the secret to making them extra chewy)
Vegan butter (our favorite brand)
Brown sugar and granulated sugar
Non-dairy milk
Pure vanilla extract
Classic or mini vegan chocolate chips (our go-to brand)

How to make these cookies

Prepare. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
Whisk the dry ingredients. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk the flour, salt, baking soda, and cornstarch.
Beat the wet ingredients. In a large mixing bowl, add the butter, milk, sugars, and vanilla. Beat until smooth and creamy.
Combine. Add about half of the flour mixture to the wet mixture and use a rubber scraper to mix until combined. Add the rest and mix until just combined.
Add chocolate chips. Fold in the chocolate chips.
Bake. Using a cookie scooper, place ~1.5 tbsp balls of dough on the prepared baking sheets. Bake in the preheated oven for 9-11 minutes, until they are slightly golden brown. They may look slightly underbaked, but will bake more while cooling – don’t overbake them.

Tips and tricks

This recipe has quickly become a favorite among many readers. To make these perfectly every time, here are a few of our best tips.

Measure your flour correctly

This is the most important part of this recipe. If you incorrectly measure flour while baking, then your baked goods can turn out dry and crumbly. If you over-measure the flour in this recipe, your cookies won’t spread properly and they won’t be as soft and chewy as they should. If you under-measure flour, then your cookies will flatten too much and will be oily.

To measure flour correctly, you should spoon the flour into your dry measuring cup, then scrape off the excess flour with the back of a knife. You can read more about this method in this blog post.

Use vegan butter spread or vegan butter sticks, softened

In baked goods, we often call for vegan butter and will often specify whether it should be in stick form or from the tub. This is because they have different ratios of oil and water that will lead to different textures in your baked goods. For this recipe, however, you can use either butter spread out of the tub or butter sticks. The butter should be soft enough to mix well with other ingredients – if using butter sticks, let it sit out for 30 minutes to an hour prior to use. If using butter spread that is soft right out of the fridge, then no need to soften. For this recipe, we typically use Earth Balance buttery spread.

Check your oven temperature

These bake at 350°F. If you notice they are not baking properly, your oven temperature may be off. You can check it with an oven thermometer.

Finally, practice, practice, practice!

Baking can be extremely temperamental. Something can turn out perfectly one time and then completely different the next, and you’ll have no idea why. We recommend to just keep baking! Try out different recipes and learn from your mistakes.

Check out some of our other variations of this recipe!

S’more, Mini Chocolate Chip and Oreo Variations

S’more Cookies: add vegan mini marshmallows and vegan graham crackers to the dough

Chocolate Sandwich Cookies: add chunks of your favorite chocolate sandwich cookies to the dough

Chocolate Chunk Mini Cookies: add vegan chocolate chunks or a chopped chocolate bar the the dough and measure out 2-3 tsp of dough per cookie (bake for 7-9 minutes).

Funfetti M&M Cookies: Add vegan sprinkles to the dough and press in vegan candy coated chocolate pieces on top.

Thin Mint Cookies: Add chopped thin mints into the dough.

Watch the full recipe video here!