19 Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipes to Bake and Share

Everyone's favorite cookie in 19 different delicious forms.

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Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves
Robin Shreeves is a food and beverage writer.
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Sara Bir
Sara Bir
Sara Bir
Sara is a chef, culinary educator, and author of three cookbooks, The Pocket Pawpaw Cookbook, Tasting Ohio and The Fruit Forager's Companion. The latter won a 2019 IACP Cookbook Award.
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Updated November 09, 2024
Freshly baked vegan chocolate chip cookies with sea salt

Simply Recipes / Cambrea Gordon

Picture the "Family Feud" Fast Money Round. The host tells the competitor to "name a cookie everyone likes." What do you think the number one answer will be? I'm going to guess it would be chocolate chip. Because really, who doesn't like chocolate chip cookies in one form or another?

Whether you like your cookies crispy or chewy, with just chocolate chips or with other mix-ins, gluten-free or vegan, or with white or dark chocolate chips, you'll find just the recipe you're looking for in this round-up of 19 irresistible chocolate chip cookie recipes.

  • Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies on a Baking Pan

    Simply Recipes / Emma Christensen

    Want to know the secret to the thickest, chewiest chocolate chip cookies? It's milk powder! It gives these cookies a distinct chewiness plus some subtle caramel flavor.

  • Thin and Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Best Crispy Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe
    Cindy Rahe

    If you enjoy those crispy cookies from Tate's, then this is the chocolate chip cookie recipe for you. The key to baking cookies that are thin around the edges and crispy all the way through is to bake them low and slow, as well as using a higher ratio of butter and sugar than many other cookie recipes.

  • Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookies

    coconut chocolate chip cookies on a plate with a glass of milk
    Aaron Hutcherson

    You either like coconut or you don't, and these cookies—a cross between coconut macaroons and chocolate chip cookies—are for coconut fans. They're soft, chewy, and full of unsweetened coconut shreds and dark chocolate chips.

  • Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Tahini Chocolate chip cookies on plate

    Simply Recipes / Tara Omidvar

    The nuttiness of tahini balances out the sweetness of these chocolate chip cookies. It's an easy ingredient to add to the recipe. The dough needs to rest for two hours before baking, but your patience will be rewarded with cookies that are slightly gooey on the inside.

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  • Double Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Easy chocolate chocolate cookies on a white plate.
    Hannah Zimmerman

    The ultimate chocolate lover's chocolate chip cookies, these treats have both cocoa powder in the dough that's studded with semi-sweet chocolate chips throughout.

  • Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
    Elise Bauer

    Oatmeal pairs well with chocolate chips, and in this particular recipe, browned butter. There's also optional shredded coconut.

  • Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Quick and easy vegan chocolate chip cookies stacked on a plate.

    Simply Recipes / Cambrea Gordon

    Aside from satisfying the requirements of vegans, these cookies have some other advantages over traditional chocolate chip cookies. Coconut oil and non-dairy milk take the place of butter, making them quicker and easier to make since you don't have to cream the butter and sugar or chill the dough.

  • Brookies (Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies)

    Brookie Cookie
    Cindy Rahe

    If chocolate chip cookies and brownies had a baby, they'd make brookies. Make chocolate chip cookie dough and a thick brownie dough. Then press together and bake. A sprinkling of sea salt is the perfect finishing touch.

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  • S'Mores Marshmallow Cookies

    Chocolate Chip and Marshmallow S'mores Cookies
    Emma Christensen

    These s'mores cookies have crushed graham crackers in the dough for the ultimate s'mores flavor.

  • Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

    chocolate chunk cookies on cooling rack
    Elise Bauer

    Break out the milk to accompany these browned butter cookies. It's an extra step that simply makes the cookies more decadent, and if you're going to eat a cookie it might as well be decadent, right?

  • Nutella Cookies

    Overhead view of nutella cookies and hazelnuts scattered on a white surface.

    Simply Recipes / Annika Panikker

    Chocolate chips, toasted hazelnuts, and of course some creamy Nutella in the dough makes these cookies the manifestation of a Nutella lover's dreams.

  • Laura Bush's Cowboy Cookies

    Laura Bush's Cowboy Cookies

    Simply Recipes / Sally Vargas

    Former First Lady Laura Bush was well-known for these cookies that she filled with oats, chocolate chips, oatmeal, pecans, coconut, and a dash of cinnamon. These cookies impressed Family Circle magazine in a 2000 bakeoff between Mrs. Bush and Tipper Gore, taking home the win.

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  • Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Stack of Oatmeal Banana Cookies Next to a Glass of Milk, and in the Background, More Cookies on the Counter

    Simply Recipes / Annika Panikker

    With oatmeal, nuts, and ripe bananas, you could almost make an argument that there is enough nutrition in these cookies to be something you can grab for breakfast on the run. They're great lunchbox treats, too.

  • Red Velvet Cookies

    Red Velvet Cookies with White Chocolate Chips
    Irvin Lin

    If you love red velvet cake, you'll love these red velvet cookies with white chocolate chips, the perfect stand-ins for the cream cheese frosting on the cake version. There's also cream cheese in the dough, helping to make them extra soft and chewy.

  • Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake

    Chocolate Chip Cookie Cake Surrounded by Plates and Small Bowls with Sprinkles and Chocolate Chips

    Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm 

    It's a copycat of that booth at the mall food court! Break out a 9-inch cake pan for this chocolate chip cookie cake that's easier to make than individual cookies. It'll make any occasion special in an instant.

  • Monster Cookies

    Hand reaching for a monster cookie from a plateful of monster cookies. Some cookies are on the counter (a cookie with a bite missing also on the counter) next to a bowl of chocolate chips and a bowl of M&M's

    Simply Recipes / Mihaela Kozaric Sebrek

    Tons of oats, peanut butter, chocolate chips, and M&Ms make these colorful cookies a perennial favorite. They're also gluten-free!

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  • White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies

    White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies
    Elise Bauer

    How many times have you seen cookies like this at a coffee shop and fallen to their charms? These are that good, but better. A little espresso powder in the dough gives them some oomph.

  • Marble Blondies

    Stack of slices of marble brownies on a piece of parchment paper, and on the counter surrounding the stack, a carafe of milk and more slices of the brownies

    Simply Recipes / Mark Beahm

    If brookies were bar cookies, they'd be these. You make one batter and then split it for both the brownie and the blondie halves. And of course there are chocolate chips as well, because chocolate chips.

  • Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Energy Balls

    A platter of chocolate chip energy balls

    Raw and vegan, these nutritionally reasonable but still delicious energy balls may be just the thing to tide you over in between chocolate chip cookie bonanzas.

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