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The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes

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This is the ultimate list of chocolate chip cookie recipes! They range from the classics, like chewy chocolate chip cookies and brown butter chocolate chip cookies, to more unique flavors like miso chocolate chip cookies and butter pecan chocolate chip cookies. Whether they’re baked on a cookie sheet, in a skillet, or as a cake, you’re bound to found your new favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. Who knew they could be baked in so many different ways!



chocolate chip cookies scattered across a sheet of parchment paper

1 / BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you’re looking for the most classic chocolate chip cookie recipe, your scrolling stops here. This is my most popular chocolate chip cookie recipe because they’re just perfect. They have crispy chewy edges and a soft and tender center. The dough is also mixed by hand and baked right away! So they’re really quick and easy too!

a stack of gooey chocolate chip cookies

2 / Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

These soft and tender cookies are really quick and easy to make and yield a consistent texture throughout. Made with a bit of cornstarch, these cookies are super soft and creamy with loads of melty chocolate chips throughout.

a brown butter chocolate chip cookie with a bite taken out

3 / Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Taking the classic chocolate chip cookie up a notch with brown butter! It adds a delicious rich and nutty flavor which pairs perfectly with the mix of dark and semisweet chocolate in these cookies. The dough has to chill overnight, but it is well worth the wait for this gourmet cookie experience.

holding a peanut butter cookie with a bite taken out

4 / Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Peanut butter cookies can sometimes be a bit dry and crumbly, and these peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are anything but. They have crispy chewy edges with a rich and soft center that’s studded with mini chocolate chips. It’s truly the best peanut butter chocolate chip cookie you will ever make.

holding a stack of gooey bakery style chocolate chip cookies

5 / Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate chip cookies that come from a bakery on just on another level. They’re thicker, bigger, more buttery, and have loads of flavor. That’s exactly what these are, but made right at home! Seriously, they’re so good that no one would even know they’re homemade.

the top of a chocolate chip skillet cookie with spoons digging in

6 / Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie

Grab a spoon and and enjoy your cookie in a warm skillet! This chocolate chip skillet cookie is basically one mega ooey gooey cookie. It’s best topped with ice cream and served warm – perfect for sharing!



gluten free chocolate chip cookies on a cooling rack

7 / Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gluten free chocolate chip cookies tend to be a bit cakey and boring…but not these! They’re just as chewy as any other chocolate chip cookie, minus the gluten. They have crispy edges with a gooey center. You would never guess they’re gluten free!

close up on gluten free oatmeal cookies on a cookie tray

8 / Gluten Free Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

The wrinkly golden edges of this gluten free oatmeal chocolate chip cookie speak for themselves. These have crisp edges with a chewy and soft center. It’s my go-to oatmeal chocolate chip cookie recipe, even without the gluten!

the top of a vegan chocolate cookie that has been split in half

9 / Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

These vegan chocolate chip cookies are the definition of ooey gooey. You don’t even have to be vegan to try these as they’re just as rich and delicious as any other chocolate chip cookie! Made with a bit of tahini and rich dark chocolate, these vegan cookies are on a whole other level.



cookies cut in half and turned on their side

10 / Salted Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is one of the top chocolate chip cookie recipes on my website and for good reason! They have a chewy edge with a soft center and the contrast of sweet butterscotch with rich dark chocolate and sea salt makes these cookies the best sweet and savory treat.

a tray of salted caramel chocolate chip cookies

11 / Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies

These chocolate chip cookies are baked with puddles of caramel all throughout. As they bake, the caramel hardens around the edges to create a crisp outside and gooey inside. They’re a bit messy, but in the best way possible.

close up on the top of a butter pecan cookie with melty chocolate chips

12 / Butter Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is one of my personal favorite! These chocolate chip cookies are baked with brown butter and savory pecans and have a chewy edge with a gooey center. They’re bursting with flavor and are also great to make around the holidays!

a slice of nutella stuffed deep dish cookie being lifted out of the pan

13 / Nutella Stuffed Deep Dish Skillet Cookie

Okay..so a giant chocolate chip cookie baked with a layer of Nutella in the center. What’s not to love?? The cookie is extra gooey and each bite just melts in your mouth. ‘Nuff said.

a miso chocolate chip cookie split in half

14 / Brown Butter Miso Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is another one of my personal favorites! Umami miso is baked into these rich brown butter cookies. It adds a slight savory flavor that is so unique and it pairs perfectly with the sweet cookie and melty dark chocolate. They’re then topped with sesame seeds which plays really well with the slightly savory flavor of these cookies!

a ten layer chocolate chip cookie cake

15 / Chocolate Chip Cookie Layer Cake

Going out with a bang with this chocolate chip cookie layer cake! Cookie dough is smashed and baked into thin and giant cookies. Once cooled, they’re layered with frosting into a cookie cake masterpiece. As the cake sits, the frosting softens the cookies to make each slice perfectly soft and chewy.

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