Making Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

These soft-baked thick and chunky double chocolate chip cookies are rich and fudge-like with chewy centers, slightly crisp edges, and oodles of melty chocolate chips in each glorious bite. The dough needs to chill for at least 3 hours, but you can make it ahead of time and refrigerate overnight.

Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1/2 cup packed light or dark brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 Tablespoon milk
  • 1 and 1/4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips

Make The Double Chocolate Chip Batter

  1. In a large bowl beat the butter, egg, vanilla extract, and sugars together until fluffy.
  2. Now mix in flour, cocoa powder, milk, chocolate chips, baking soda and salt together until combined.
  3. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours and up to 3 days.
  4. Remove cookie dough from the refrigerator and allow to sit at room temperature.

Bake Double Chocolate Chip Cookies In Oven

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
  2. Scoop 1.5 Tablespoons dough balls 2-3 inches apart.
  3. Bake the cookies for 11-12 minutes or until the edges appear set.

Congratulations! Your Cookies Are Ready

Cool cookies for 5 minutes on the baking sheet.

Notes

Make Ahead & Freezing Instructions: You can make the cookie dough and chill it in the refrigerator for up to 3 days (step 3). Baked cookies freeze well for up to 3 months. Unbaked cookie dough balls freeze well for up to 3 months. Bake frozen cookie dough balls for an extra minute, no need to thaw. Check out my tips + tricks for how to freeze cookie dough.
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Larger Batch: The recipe is easy to double in 1 mixing bowl without overwhelming your mixer. Simply double all of the cookie dough ingredients. Dough chill time remains the same.
Natural Cocoa Powder: Do you know the difference between natural cocoa powder and dutch-process cocoa powder? Use natural in this dough.
Other Add-Ins: Instead of chocolate chips in the dough, you can use the same amount of peanut butter chips, white chocolate chips, M&Ms, chopped nuts, or butterscotch chips.

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