Yahoo Lifestyle 16 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes With Brown Butter, Banana, and More
Rekindle your love for the beloved cookie by trying varieties with brown butter, bittersweet chunks, blue corn, banana, and more.
Jennifer Causey / Food Styling by Emily Nabors Hall / Prop Styling by Shell Royster
We are totally equal-opportunity. Even if you've already found your holy grail chocolate chip cookie recipe, there's so much delicious value in exploring all the ways this beloved cookie can satisfy. Our collection of chocolate chip cookie recipes covers all the bases for changing up the form, flavor, and texture. From making one giant cookie in a skillet to a single-serving cookie in a mug; from using traditional chocolate chips to chopping up premium bars; from keeping it classic to mixing it up with inclusions such as cherries and halvah, these recipes will have you falling in love with chocolate chip cookies over and over again.
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Brown butter is the key to truly swoon-worthy chocolate chip cookies. Paired with dark brown sugar, it creates a butterscotch-y backdrop to complement the chocolate — here, that's a combination of bittersweet morsels and chopped bittersweet chocolate. A sprinkle of pretty pyramid-shaped Maldon sea salt on top cuts through all that sweetness and brings the flavors to life.
Zoë’s Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
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Baking pro Zoë Francois uses a generous amount of hand-chopped chocolate chunks to make these oversized cookies. She supplements the butter with a bit of shortening for a best-of-both-worlds cookie that boasts crisp golden edges with a gloriously chewy center.
Air Fryer Chocolate Chip Cookies
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What can't an air fryer do? Here, we use it to make four fresh, perfectly gooey cookies in just 15 minutes of active work time — this recipe just might become your new nightly ritual.
Gramercy Tavern Chocolate Chip Cookies
CEDRIC ANGELES
Utterly decadent and delightfully over-the-top, these are the chocolate chip cookies to bake when you're craving indulgence. They're made with brown butter and a trio of dark, milk, and white chocolate; plus, did we mention they're gargantuan? Each cookie starts with a whopping six ounces of dough, so they're perfect to share with someone special (or not!).
Skillet Chocolate Chip Cookie
Jordan Provost / Food Styling by Thu Buser
There's something incredibly cozy about serving up warm pecan- and chocolate-studded cookie slices with scoops of melting ice cream. You'll need a 12-inch over-safe skillet for this recipe, preferably cast iron for a terrifically crisp-edged cookie.
Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Halvah
Jennifer Causey / Food Styling by Emily Nabors Hall / Prop Styling by Shell Royster
2022 F&W Best New Chef Warda Bouguettaya folds nutty, rich crumbles of halvah into the dough to give her chocolate chunk cookies a toasty, earthy flavor.
Blue Corn, Cherry, and Chocolate Chip Cookies
Made with halved fresh cherries, nutty blue corn flour, almond extract, and plenty of dark chocolate, these are not your average chocolate chip cookies — and we are 100% here for it. 2021 F&W Best New Chef Thessa Diadem suggests serving them with coffee or Mexican hot chocolate for the perfect afternoon treat.
Spiced Banana-Oatmeal Cookies
Victor Protasio / Food Styling by Torie Cox / Prop Styling by Thom Driver
Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies meet banana bread in this easy recipe for soft, cakey cookies; toasted ground cardamom and cinnamon add warm flavor and dimension.
Dried Cranberry and Chocolate Cookies
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Tart dried cranberries are the perfect foil for sweet chocolate. Use a cup and a half of dark, milk, or white chips — or a combination thereof. This recipe also works well with chopped dried apricots.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Matt Taylor-Gross / Food Styling Debbie Wee
When a serious chocolate craving strikes, these gooey-centered cookies are the ones to bake. Not only does the dough boast a full cup of cocoa powder, but it's also studded with a pound and a half of chocolate chunks: 12 ounces each of bittersweet and white chocolate.
Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
© Emily Farris
Using melted butter eliminates the creaming step for a dough that comes together quickly and yields an especially chewy cookie. If you have the time, resting the dough briefly in the fridge will allow it to firm up and spread less in the oven.
Chocolate Chip-Pecan Cookie Bars
Bar cookies are the right move when scooping or rolling dough feels too tedious. Made with flavorful whole wheat pastry flour, these bars are totally customizable: You can swap walnuts or almonds for the pecans, or replace half the nuts with dried cranberries for tart, chewy bars.
Nutty Chocolate Chip Cookies
© Fredrika Stjärne
We like to use walnuts or pecans for these cookies, but you can use whatever nut you like — consider lightly toasting them first to enhance and intensify their inherent flavor.
Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies
Milk chocolate lovers, this recipe's for you. Crunchy on the outside and soft in the center, these cookies from Texas chef Tim Love are loaded with a full pound of milk chocolate chips.
Chocolate Chip Cookie in a Mug
What if we told you that a warm, soft chocolate chip cookie is always just 10 minutes away? Armed with a microwave, a 12-ounce mug, and a handful of pantry staples, you never have to be without the treat again.
White Chocolate Chip Macadamia Cookies with Dried Cherries
© Emily Farris
Hearty, buttery, and chock-full of flavors and textures, these white chocolate macadamia nut cookies are boosted with tart cherries and come together in less than an hour.
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