Chocolate chip cookies are like puppies — it’s hard not to love them. And like puppies, they come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, so you can pick the one that suits you best.
Depending on what recipe you use, you can make a cookie that’s chewy and fudgy. Or perhaps you prefer something crispy and caramelized with brown sugar notes. Or just a cookie that’s really, really big. Here are our best chocolate chip cookie recipes to help you find your cookie companion.
1) Supersized, Super-Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who love a soft cookie and aren’t afraid of extra steps for extra payoff
This cookie is our 2024 Recipe of the Year for a reason. It includes brown butter for complexity, a tangzhong for an incredibly soft texture, and chopped chocolate for a dynamic eating experience. These cookies take a day to make because of their extended (yet necessary!) rest time, but the wait is well worth it.
Get the recipe: Supersized, Super-Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Guittard Semisweet Chocolate Wafers and Scone and Muffin Scoop
2) Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who love a nostalgic chocolate chip cookie recipe
Traditionalists, this is the recipe you’re looking for. It’s reminiscent of the cookies you likely ate in childhood: soft in the center, a little crispy at the edges, and packed with semisweet chocolate chips. The key is a combination of butter and shortening, which ensures their classic bendy-yet-chewy texture.
Get the recipe: Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Pure Almond Extract
3) Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: people who want to sneak whole grains into their bakes
While they’re not quite as soft as the Recipe of the Year, these cookies are tender without any crispness. It may not be obvious from the taste, but the dough is surprisingly made with 100% White Whole Wheat Flour, which adds a hint of nutty flavor without tasting overwhelmingly like whole wheat.
Get the recipe: Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: White Whole Wheat Flour
4) Joy's Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans
This recipe is for: bakers who want lots of flavor in their cookies
Using a unique combination of half brown butter and half room-temperature butter for optimal texture, these cookies cover all the bases of flavor: toasty pecans, caramelly brown sugar, and nutty brown butter.
Get the recipe: Joy’s Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans
Shop the recipe: Guittard Bittersweet Chocolate Chips
5) Gluten-Free Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: Gluten-free bakers who want buttery, tender, and nutty cookies
Almond flour is a boon for gluten-free bakers since it’s naturally gluten-free, but it’s also an ingredient to reach for if you’re looking for buttery, nutty flavor in your chocolate chip cookies. The texture of these almond flour cookies is delightfully crumbly, like shortbread.
Get the recipe: Gluten-Free Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Almond Flour
6) Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who are on the hunt for the chewiest cookies
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies use an invert sugar (corn syrup) for cookies that are super-chewy and quite bendy. And because they stay soft even when they’re frozen, these cookies are excellent for making chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches or eating frozen for a late-night snack.
Get the recipe: Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Pure Vanilla Extract
7) Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who can’t get enough chocolate
If you bite into a chocolate chip cookie and think "If only there were more chocolate," you need to try this recipe, which includes cocoa powder in the dough for twice the chocolate. There’s also a touch of espresso powder for amped-up chocolatey flavor.
Get the recipe: Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Bensdorp Cocoa Powder
8) Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers looking for more creative uses for their sourdough starter
Sourdough starter can add complex flavor to more than just bread — it belongs in cookies, too. Made with either fed or unfed (discard) starter, these sourdough cookies use a few additional tricks to deepen their flavor, like browning the butter and rolling the scooped balls of cookie dough in chopped chocolate for melty puddles in every bite.
Get the recipe: Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Unbleached Bread Flour and Sourdough Starter
9) Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers seeking to use flavorful flour
Organic rye flour is not only good for the environment — it also adds earthy, nutty, slightly malty flavor to chocolate chip cookies, while also giving them a soft, mildly chewy texture. And because these cookies are made with melted butter, the dough comes together by hand in just one bowl and can be made in a mere half hour.
Get the recipe: Rye Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Organic Medium Rye Flour
10) Crunchy Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who like extra-crispy cookies
These crunchy cookies are ideal for dipping into a tall glass of milk. Their crisp edges soften slightly when soaked in milk, but you’ll still hear an audible snap when you take a bite. The secret to this crunchy texture is a combination of both oil and butter, plus a longer bake time.
Get the recipe: Crunchy Whole Grain Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: White Whole Wheat Flour
11) Vegan Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who don’t want to use butter
Whether you’re vegan, dairy-free, or simply shocked by the rising cost of butter, you can still make flavorful chocolate chip cookies! The bakers at Ovenly shared their recipe for vegan chocolate chip cookies with us, which uses basic ingredients like vegetable oil and water in place of butter and eggs. The soft dough requires an overnight chill to firm up, so plan ahead.
Get the recipe: Vegan Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Unbleached All-Purpose Flour and Half-Sheet Pan
12) Famous Department Store Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who need to feed the soccer team
If you need to make an enormous batch of cookies, turn to our Famous Department Store Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe. Depending on how large you scoop the dough, you can end up with over 100 cookies! They’ll keep for up to a week, so whether you have guests all week or are attending a big party, this recipe delivers a large batch of cookies full of oats, nuts, and chocolate chips.
Get the recipe: Famous Department Store Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Tablespoon Cookie Scoop and Callebaut Semisweet Chocolate Chips
13) Chocolate Chip Cookies with Self-Rising Flour
This recipe is for: bakers who only make recipes with fewer than 10 ingredients
If you like being efficient in the kitchen, reach for self-rising flour. It already includes baking powder and salt, so there are fewer ingredients to gather and measure out for chocolate chip cookies. Plus, self-rising flour’s lower protein content makes cookies that are tender and soft.
Get the recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies with Self-Rising Flour
Shop the recipe: Unbleached Self-Rising Flour
14) Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
This recipe is for: bakers who can’t stand scooping dough
If you need the satisfaction of a sweet, chewy treat that’s studded with chocolate chips, but you don’t have the patience for the dough to rest or to scoop dough, chocolate chip cookie bars are the answer. Best of all? You can enjoy warm cookie bars in about 40 minutes flat.
Get the recipe: Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Shop the recipe: 9" x 13" pan
15) Marbled Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who like to share their bakes on Instagram
These two-tone cookies will make you say “wow” when you pull them from the oven. Half the dough is enriched with cocoa powder for extra chocolate flavor and visual contrast, while the other half is a classic chocolate-chip-studded vanilla dough. Marbled together into one cookie, the two create a striking look.
Get the recipe: Marbled Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Double Dark Cocoa Blend
16) Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who eat nut butter straight from the jar
These pleasantly dense cookies celebrate the combination of peanuts and chocolate, with crackly tops that give way to an almost fudgy interior. The secret to this recipe is to skip the flour altogether and let the peanut butter do the heavy lifting. Because these cookies are naturally gluten-free, they're an excellent choice for both people with Celiac disease and wheat-eaters alike.
Get the recipe: Flourless Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Callebaut Semisweet Mini Chocolate Chips
17) Keto-Friendly Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers looking to cut back on carbs or sugar
Special diet cookies don’t have to taste like cardboard. These Keto-Friendly Chocolate Chip Cookies use real ingredients and have a crisp-crunchy texture. Use sugar-free chocolate chips to make them entirely keto-friendly.
Get the recipe: Keto-Friendly Chocolate Chip Cookies
Shop the recipe: Keto Wheat Flour
18) Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie
This recipe is for: people who prefer cookies to cake
If your ideal dessert is supremely sharable but doesn’t involve any plates, then a skillet cookie might be your perfect match. This skillet cookie can be served straight from the oven for a warm, gooey, melty cookie experience. No knives or dishes needed — just a skillet and some spoons (and maybe a big scoop of ice cream).
Get the recipe: Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie
Shop the recipe: Chiptastic Chip Blend
19) Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
This recipe is for: bakers who want to please everyone
These cookies are loved by kids and adults alike for their balanced sweetness, perfect chewiness, and nostalgic flavor. The oats add welcome heartiness, making these cookies feel like they could be paired with a mid-morning cup of coffee or served with lunch. And while they’re not overly sweet, they contain over a pound of chips, so you’re sure to get chocolate in every bite.
Get the recipe: Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies
Shop the recipe: Callebaut Semisweet Chocolate Chips
20) Buckwheat Cardamom Chocolate Chunk Cookies
This recipe is for: people who love elegant, earthy flavors
Reminiscent of the viral pan-banging cookies, these rippled cookies are made with buckwheat flour, which adds nutty flavor and creates an almost melt-in-your-mouth consistency in the center of the cookies. They’re perfumed with ground cardamom, which complements the buckwheat and the two kinds of chocolate: semisweet and bittersweet.
Get the recipe: Buckwheat Cardamom Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Shop the recipe: Birkett Mills Buckwheat Flour and Cloud Forest Cardamom
Not sure where to start? Watch and learn how to make the cookie everyone is talking about, our 2024 Recipe of the Year.
Cover photo (Supersized, Super-Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies) by Rick Holbrook; food styling by Kaitlin Wayne.
