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A plate of chocolate chip cookies with a glass of milk, and a cooling rack filled with more cookies in the background.
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Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies Without Nuts

Classic chocolate chip cookies made with buttery dough, brown sugar, vanilla, and plenty of chocolate chips. No nuts needed!
Course: Dessert Recipes
Cuisine: American
Servings: 42 Servings
Calories: 141kcal
Author: Laura

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter softened (quantity needs confirmation)
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla paste
  • 2 eggs warm if possible
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Instructions

Make the Cookie Dough

  • Whip the butter until it's soft and fluffy.
    Two sticks of butter in a stainless steel stand mixer bowl next to the paddle attachment.
  • Add the sugars and cream together
    White sugar and brown sugar being poured from a plate into a stand mixer bowl containing creamed ingredients.
  • Scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl as needed
    A stand mixer bowl containing creamed butter, white sugar, and brown sugar, with a paddle attachment partially coated in the mixture.
  • Add the first egg and beat it in fully
    A raw egg yolk added to cookie dough in a stainless steel mixing bowl with a paddle attachment.
  • Add the vanilla paste
    Dark liquid being poured from a small bowl into a metal stand mixer bowl containing cookie dough.
  • Repeat with the remaining egg
    Cookie dough being mixed in a stand mixer bowl with a paddle attachment.
  • Scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl as needed
  • Add 2 cups of the flour to the mixing bowl
  • To the remaining 1/2 cup of flour, add the baking soda and salt and stir to combine
    A mound of white powder, likely baking powder, sitting on a pile of flour.
  • Sprinkle it over the top of the flour in the bowl
    A stand mixer paddle incorporating flour into dough inside a mixing bowl.
  • Stir with the mixer on low just until the flour is incorporated
  • Scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl as needed
  • Add the chocolate chips and stir one more time
    A pile of dark chocolate chips sitting atop unmixed cookie dough in a mixing bowl.
  • Scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl as needed
  • Do not overmix the dough or you'll develop the gluten
  • Chill the dough for 1 hour
    Chocolate chip cookie dough in a mixing bowl with a spatula.

Bake the Cookies

  • Preheat the oven to 375°F
  • Drop the chilled dough onto a baking sheet
    Several scoops of chocolate chip cookie dough arranged on a silicone baking mat.
  • Bake in the preheated oven for 9-11 minutes
    A plate piled with chocolate chip cookies next to a wire cooling rack of more cookies and a glass of milk.
  • Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely
    A plate of chocolate chip cookies with two glasses of milk on a red and white checkered napkin.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1 Serving | Calories: 141kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 21mg | Sodium: 126mg | Potassium: 17mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 13g | Vitamin A: 166IU | Vitamin C: 0.1mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg
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