30-minute Chocolate Chip Cookies
Follow this easy recipe to make the BEST Chocolate Chip Cookies in less than 30 minutes! They're soft and chewy, with golden crisp edges.
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Ingredients
- 125 grams Salted butter soft at room temperature. I used Kerrigold
- 75 grams White caster sugar
- 120 grams Light brown sugar
- 1.5 teaspoons Vanilla extract I used Nielsen-Massey
- 1 medium Egg room temperature
- 225 grams Self-raising flour
- 2 teaspoons Cornflour cornstarch in the US
- 150-200 grams Chocolate Chips I used Guittard Milk Chocolate Chips
- Sea salt flakes for sprinkling on top
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C fan / 200°C conventional, and line a dark baking tray with baking paper.
- Cream the softened butter until smooth.125 grams Salted butter
- Beat in the light brown sugar and caster sugar until well combined.75 grams White caster sugar, 120 grams Light brown sugar
- Mix in the egg and vanilla extract.1.5 teaspoons Vanilla extract, 1 medium Egg
- Fold in the self-raising flour and cornflour until a soft cookie dough forms.225 grams Self-raising flour, 2 teaspoons Cornflour
- Fold through the chocolate chips, saving a small handful for decorating later.150-200 grams Chocolate Chips
- Scoop heaped tablespoons of dough (roughly golf ball sized) and roll into balls that are slightly taller than they are wide.
- Place around 6 cookie dough balls onto the prepared baking tray, leaving space between each one. You'll need to bake the cookies in batches.
- Bake for 10 minutes. The cookies should look pale golden around the edge but still a little underbaked in the middle.
- Remove from the oven and immediately firmly bang the tray on the worktop a few times (this will give the cookies that crinkly rippled top). Use a large cookie cutter to gently shape each cookie into a neat circle, then press the reserved chocolate chips into the tops. Sprinkle a pinch of sea salt flakes over each cookie.
- Leave the cookies to cool on the tray for 10 minutes before serving. They'll continue to firm up while staying perfectly soft and chewy in the middle.