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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Sometimes, a crispy cookie is the best cookie. These buttery and sweet chocolate chip cookies are the perfect treat for when you’re craving a thinner, crunchier cookie.
If you are looking for a thick and chewy chocolate chip cookie instead, head over to this Thick and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. If you’d like more crunchy treats, try these Crispy Butterscotch Cookies or some Crispy Peanut Butter Cookies.
Reader Review
Never before and I’ve been baking for a few years have I left a recipe review, but these babies are divine. Didn’t change or adjust recipe in any way. Recipe yielded about five dozen crispy buttery toffee tasty 🍪. Five stars for sure!
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: These cookies are very easy to make.
- Total Time: Making these cookies will take you approximately 25 minutes from start to finish.
- Variations: Try changing up the type or size of chocolate chips you use for these! Peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, or Skor bits would be an amazing addition. Mix in your favourite chopped nuts, some shredded coconut, or even some raisins.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a stand mixer or large bowl and hand mixer, a spoon, a couple of large baking sheets, some parchment paper, and a drinking glass.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Butter: This recipe doesn’t specify whether your butter needs to be salted or unsalted, so use whichever you happen to have around. If you use salted butter, you’ll probably want to eliminate the salt elsewhere in the recipe.
Vanilla: While any vanilla extract will work just fine for these yummy cookies, you may find that it’s worth it to use a higher-quality vanilla or even some vanilla bean paste to maximize the flavour. You can also try coconut or almond extract if you prefer a nuttier taste in your cookies. Have fun!
Chocolate Chips: Though this recipe will work best with smaller chocolate chips or chunks, you can use whichever variety you like best. Dark chocolate will give you a hint of bitterness, milk chocolate will be extra creamy, and semi-sweet chips will give you a balanced flavour profile. You can play with this even more by trying non-chocolate baking chip options.
How To Make Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a large bowl or stand mixer, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add egg and vanilla and mix thoroughly.
- Beat in the flour, baking soda, and salt. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Roll heaping tablespoons of dough into balls and arrange them on the lined baking sheets, 12 per sheet.
- Flatten each cookie with the bottom of a glass.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes until golden brown.
- Cool completely on cookie sheet before removing.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Flattening Method: The round bottom of a glass will help you to press each cookie into a flat little disc, hopefully with a fairly even thickness. This dough isn’t normally sticky, but if you’re having issues with the dough sticking to the glass, you can wet the glass slightly with water. Another way to help prevent anything from sticking where it shouldn’t is putting a piece of wax paper or parchment paper over the cookies as you press them.
Folding: When recipes talk about “folding” in an ingredient, that’s just a fancy word for the process of mixing something with extra care, generally with less circular motion or stirring. Depending on the recipe, you may be doing this to avoid overmixing a dough or batter so you don’t end up making it tough. In this recipe, you’re switching from beating the dry ingredients into the cookie dough to gently stirring in the chocolate chips with a spoon.
Storage Instructions
Like most cookies, these will be fine in a lidded container at room temperature for several days. Due to the amount of butter in these, you may find that they get stale more easily than some other cookies, so keeping them in the fridge might be a good idea. You can freeze these for 4-5 months in a freezer safe bag or container. Layer them with parchment paper to make it easier to take individual cookies out when you want to eat them.
More Delicious Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes
Looking for more chocolate cookie recipes to satisfy that chocolate chip craving?
Try these Chocolate Chip Cookies made without baking soda or baking powder.
Make a batch of Cheesecake Chocolate Chip Cookies or some Double Mint Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies for something a bit different.
Round out those cookie assortments with some Walnut Loaded Chunky Chocolate Chip Cookies.
There you go, friends. A perfect recipe for those of you who prefer your chocolate chip cookies to be on the crispier side. Try these and let me know what you think.
Happy Baking!
Karlynn
Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe: Crispy, Crunchy Delights
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 ¼ cups white granulated sugar
- ¼ cup packed brown sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
- 1 egg
- 2 cups chocolate chips
Instructions
- Kick the tires and light the fires to 375 degrees F
- Cream together your butter and sugar until it’s light and fluffy.
- Add in the egg and vanilla, mixing thoroughly.
- Beat in the flour, baking soda and salt.
- When that is done, fold in the two cups of chocolate chips by hand, and prepare to put them on some parchment paper lined cookie sheets.
- Roll a heaping tablespoon of cookie dough into a ball, 12 per cookie sheet. Take a glass and using the bottom, flatten out each cookie. If the cookie sticks, start wetting the bottom of the glass with water, they will come right off. Flatten each of them as much as you can. This is a dry dough – no sticky chewiness going on here- but it’s just wet enough to make perfect little flat cookie patties.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 9-11 minutes, until golden brown.
- Cool on the sheets completely. These turned out to be wonderfully crispy, crunchy and were surprisingly a hit with everyone. The butter flavor really is apparent in these ones due to the lack of flavor that comes with brown sugar, but that isn’t a bad thing at all. Buttery, crispy little bites of chocolate heaven!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Farah says
Just stumbled on to your recipe and I’m wondering if its possible to make the cookies a little thicker but still retain the crunchiness/crispness?
thekitchenmagpie says
@Farah You could go a little thicker for sure and still have them crisp. Maybe I’ll try making them today and see how I can get them thicker… a thick, crispy chocolate chip cookie.. mmm!
GabrielleCostello says
We are a gluten and dairy free household so I adapted this recipe in hope for crunchy cookies and they came out great! I changed the flour to 1 cup rice flour and 1.5 cup almond meal (which helps give it a nutty flavour) with about 1/8 teaspoon of xanthan gum, same amount of butter but used cacao butter, same amount of choc chips but replaced with cacao nibs (both help give it chocolatey and buttery taste without the dairy) and 1 1/4 cups of coconut sugar in replacement of all the sugar in the recipe.
I cooked the first batch at 190 degrees C and they came out a bit firmer than a subway cookie ( I made them that big as well) so the second batch I cooked at 170 degrees C for a little longer and made them thinner than the first batch and they came out CRUNCHY! woohoo! Thank you for the recipe! 🙂
crystal says
These are wonderful! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Anon in Aus says
I’ve been searching the the perfect choc chip cookie for years! These are amazing and taste exactly like the ones my mum made when I was a kid. Thanks so much for perfecting the crispy choc chip cookie!
thekitchenmagpie says
@Anon in Aus Thanks for stopping in and letting me know! Nothing is as good a compliment as saying “like mom made!”!
KristyWhiteoak says
Eating one right now. They turned out great, we are not a chewey cookie family and it’s hard to find a good crunchy cookie recipe. Thanks for this, I will be keeping this one handy for sure.
thekitchenmagpie says
KristyWhiteoak I am SO glad you liked these! I am a crunchy cookie gal too, nothing like a buttery,crunchy cookie! Thanks for stopping in!
Eevee Pikamolga says
Hi
First of all, i must say, the cookies look great! I would like to know if the flour needs to be sieved and does this dough require chilling before baking?
Thank you!
Jacquelyn 🙂
thekitchenmagpie says
Eevee Pikamolga I don’t sieve the flour and you can chill the dough, but I never do and they turn out fantastic!
kiki says
Hoping these come out delsih
Rubbaleamore says
I’m going to try this.Sounds yummy.
thekitchenmagpie says
So glad you liked them!
Black n Write Reviews says
I just made my first batch and these taste terrific! Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Karlynn Johnston says
So glad you liked them! They are my fave!
lnury says
Amazing cookies. Again, thanks.
thekitchenmagpie says
lnury Glad you liked them!
Sunshine501 says
I ate so many of these, I got sick. These are the best chocolate chip cookies ever.
thekitchenmagpie says
@Sunshine501 Oh my goodness LOL! Hope you recovered from the sugar coma!
Barbie says
Just made these cookies for my son, that wanted crispy cookies and this recioe is absolutely great! One thing I may alter is reduce the salt, I don’t like the afer salt tashte in cookies.
Thank you for this geat redipe.
Barbara from Vicenza Italy
thekitchenmagpie says
@Barbie Glad you liked them! Thanks for stopping in, all the way from Italy!
Jayne says
I made this for my mom’s Chinese New Year cookie table. Everyone raved about it! It’s so hard to come by a good crispy chocolate chip recipe. I swear it tastes like Famous Amos. Awesome recipe!
thekitchenmagpie says
@Jayne Fabulous to hear!
tc says
Just made these cookies today and they turned out very nicely. Thank you very much for the recipe 🙂
thekitchenmagpie says
@tc You are so very welcome! Thanks for stopping in!
paytonmom256 says
Nutritional Info on this recipe?
Karlynn says
Old baking soda, high humidity that day, oh, sometimes they can be so finicky!
Caynie says
Hi! I was on the hunt for a crispy cc cookie and landed in your nest! Tried these and they were perfection–followed the recipe exactly and they even looked like your photo! The second time I made them (again, following the recipe to a T), they were totally flat–like cookie creeps with the chips rising from them like mountains on a plain. Do you have any idea what could have happened? I thought I’d ask since you’ve done so much experimenting. Thanks!
TimHuff says
If your butter in the dough is too warm the result is often a flat cookie. Try refrigerating the dough for an hour or so.
Karlynn says
The batter should be quite dry as there’s only one egg and more flour. However, is it high humidity where you are baking? Rain, snow or generally a humid place? This can add moisture to baking. I’ve never had them too wet, in fact sometimes it seems they are too dry but always turn out. Try adding in another 1/4 cup of flour or perhaps cut the butter by 1/4 cup.
Marchella says
hi karlynn.. I just made this recipe. But batter was not dry, they quite wet. And my cookies turn out chewy, they only crispy on the edge. Do you know what is wrong?? I follow your recipe exactly the same, I only change the chocolate chip with chocolate chunk.
Thank you
shona says
marcella i had the same problem. i added 1 and a 1/2 cup of flour to the matter and it was still soft….couldnt be rolled in a ball but when i kinds spread it out a bit the cookies were amazing. i tried adding more flour and rolled those and squished them flat with my hand. those cookies were also crispy, they were better shaped but i prefered eating the batch that only had the 1 1/2 flour added
MLeigh says
Dear Kitchen Magpie,
I just made this recipe with a few minor adjustments. I halved the recipe, reduced the white sugar by .25 c, increased the vanilla a tad and used egg beaters. I did not flatten the cookies, they melted into a beautiful round mound in the oven all on their own. And, they are by far the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever made! They actually turned out chewy (oops) but so much better than a bakery cookie and not flat at all like toll house. Just sheer perfection. Thank you!!
thekitchenmagpie says
MLeigh I am so glad that you liked them!!! Thanks for letting me know!
Karlynn says
There’s so little flavor that you really do need the vanilla! With so little brown sugar, there’s a lack of depth to them.
SarahBoye1 says
Do you think these will work without the vanilla?
thekitchenmagpie says
SarahBoye1 You need the vanilla for flavor….
Claire says
How many dozens does this dough makes ?
Karlynn says
I get 3 dozen, it varies person to person though, you could stretch it to 4 with smaller cookies.
michelle says
these are the best cookies ever! everyone who eats them want the recipe!
Ursa says
I made these yesterday and they were awesome! I really don’t like chewy cookies so these were perfect.
Karlynn says
Aren’t they a great crispy, buttery fix? Glad you liked them!
Karlynn says
Jenny, I am so glad to hear they worked out! They are amazing cookies, I love when I strike recipe gold, just from fiddling around with the ingredients. These are my favorites too, even eclipsing the chewy ones. It must be the crispy butter taste combined with the chocolate..mmmm.
Thanks for the feedback and the lovely post about them!
Karlynn says
I hope they turn out! I did leave them sit and they hardened right up, hopefully they turn out for you as well. I was so surprised how much I LOVED these.
Let me know how it went.
Heidi Namba says
Hey! I’m making these chocolate chip cookies as I type. The first batch has come out of the oven. They are indeed delicious and the dough is so easy to work with because it’s nice and firm. They are still slightly warm right now and they are just a bit crunchy on the outside edges but the middle is really chewy. I made sure to bake them longer then I usually would leave in a chocolate chip cookie. I wanted to make sure that I achieved the crunch factor. My husband loves crunchy cookies so I wanted to surprise him. I’m hoping that as they cool they will become thoroughly crunchy. If I have time tomorrow I will post the results on my blog. Stay tuned!!