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These chocolate chip cookies aren’t just a plain old cookie: They’re Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, XL Bakery Style, and they’re some of my favorite cookies ever.
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Why You Will LOVE These Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies never get old: they’re the gift that keeps on giving. I have a ton of recipes on this site and don’t plan to stop creating them anytime soon!
Here is why these Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies are one of the best ones:
- Brown Butter gives the cookies a deep rich flavor that just plain melted butter doesn’t have.
- These are HUGE cookies so they stay soft and gooey in the center. Almost as big as my hand, they have 1/4 cup of dough in each one!
- Mini Chocolate Chips ensure a ton of chocolate in every bite!
Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe Video
Ingredients in Bakery Style Cookies
Unsalted Butter: Unsalted butter is a must because we are going to brown it. You don’t want to brown salted butter as it will concentrate the salty flavor.
Sugar: I use both brown and granulated sugar in the recipe. Brown sugar helps keep them soft.
Eggs: Eggs are important for the structure of cookies and the fat from the yolk makes them rich and chewy.
Vanilla Extract: For flavoring – for an extra boost add almond extract too!
Baking Soda: Helps cookies spread and rise.
Salt: Required since we’re using unsalted butter.
All-Purpose Flour: Be sure to measure it correctly or the dough will be too crumbly.
Mini Chocolate Chips: You can use regular ones but I like how the mini ones get in every single bite.
How to make Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
1. Brown the Butter: Have you ever browned butter before? It’s easy, but you have to be careful. It’ll burn quick! You just melt your butter over medium-low heat and cook, stirring, until it turns golden brown and smells nutty. The butter will foam, and that’s okay. The foam will go away once it’s removed from the heat. Read my post to learn how to brown butter easily.
2. Mix: Then simply add the brown butter to a large bowl. Mix in the sugars, then the eggs and vanilla, baking soda and salt, then mix in the flour. Stir in the chocolate chips and it’s time to scoop.
3. Scoop: Scoop 1/4 cupfuls of dough onto the cookie sheet. You don’t need to space them out yet.
4. Chill: This dough MUST be chilled for best results. I recommend chilling overnight but the minimum chill time is 2 hours.
5. Bake: Because they’re pretty firm when going into the oven, bake them halfway then press them down a bit to flatten and finish baking. These cookies are huge. They’re large and in charge and the center doesn’t quite cook all the way and it makes them gooey and doughy and fabulous.
Tips
- Because the butter starts off melted, it’s hot. The brown and granulated sugars cook into the butter giving it a really toffee-like flavor. And because it starts off melted you MUST chill it. I chilled this dough overnight in my fridge. You don’t have to chill it that long, but it’s TOTALLY worth the wait. Something about the chilling makes the flavors marry just the right way. Don’t skimp on the chilling!
- For an extra flavor boost add 1 teaspoon almond extract in addition to the vanilla.
- They won’t flatten unless you press them down a bit partially through baking.
- Top just baked cookies with more chocolate chips for that extra chocolatey look.
- The recipe has been updated slightly to encourage you to scoop the dough BEFORE chilling so it’s easier to do.
FAQ
Store these in an airtight container on the counter or freeze them for up to 2 months.
The concentration of the toasty butter flavor you get from brown butter adds a deepness and richness to the cookies – the flavor is hard to describe but it’s almost toffee-like.
If you’re making brown butter cookies and they’re flat, that’s because you probably didn’t chill the dough. Brown butter is hot and melted and you can’t immediately bake cookie dough made with it. Chill these cookies for a minimum of 2 hours before baking.
YES – it’s so easy to make brown butter and add it to chocolate chip cookies.
These stay soft because of the combination of brown sugar and melted butter and because they are not over baked – under bake your cookies to keep them soft.
My trick is to top just baked hot from the oven cookies with more chocolate chips. The chocolate melts a bit to adhere them and then they look extra pretty!
Cakey cookies happen when there is too much flour or when you use baking powder. Chewy cookies happen with the addition of eggs.
XL Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies. You WILL eat them all. And they’re worth every calorie!
Other Favorite Cookie Recipes
- Dorothy’s BEST Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- Doubletree Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Triple Chocolate Oreo Cookies
- Brown Butter Oatmeal Cookies filled with PB and Caramel by Bakeaholic Mama
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Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup (226g) unsalted butter
- ¾ cup (150g) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (200g) packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract optional
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 ¼ cups (403g) all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, about 6 minutes, until it becomes brown in color. It will foam, reduce, then foam again. Once it’s done cooking the foam is a light brown and it will dissipate after you remove it from the heat. Once it starts to brown, keep stirring so it doesn’t burn. Let sit for about 5 minutes to cool.
- Pour into an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment. While still hot, add both sugars and mix on low until combined. Let sit to cool for a few minutes.
- While butter mixture is cooling, combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl. Stir and set aside.
- Turn mixer (with butter mixture bowl attached) on low. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing completely. Mix in vanilla extract and almond extract (optional, but it adds great flavor). Add flour mixture to the wet ingredients and mix until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Scoop ¼ cupfuls of dough into balls onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. No need to space them. Cover with plastic wrap and chill at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350°. Line cookie sheets with parchment or silpat liners.
- Scoop out ¼ cup sized balls and place 6-8 on a sheet. They don’t spread a lot, but they’re BIG cookies. Bake 5 minutes, then press the cookies slightly to flatten. (Careful – they're hot! Use a glass that's been sprayed with cooking spray so you don't burn your hands.)
- Bake for about an additional 8-10 minutes. They will be golden on the outside and still doughy on the inside – perfect! Top just baked cookies with more chocolate chips. Let cool for 5 minutes, and then remove from pans to cool completely.
- Store in an airtight container on the counter for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 2 months.
Recipe Notes
- Almond extract is optional but adds great flavor.
- Recipe has been updated – originally it called for chilling the dough prior to scooping which just made scooping really hard. Scooping before chilling is the way I do it now and so much easier.
- Minimum chill time: 2 hours but I like overnight best.
- Substitute regular size chocolate chips in place of mini if preferred.
Recipe Nutrition
These Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are gooey, chocolatey, XL, and filled with brown butter!
Last Updated on June 28, 2021
These look amazing! I still haven’t gotten round to making anything with browned butter – I think I’ll start with these! Pinning 🙂
Enjoy Nicky!! Thanks for the pin!
I made these, as I promised Dorothy…2 days in the frig…Swapped-out 1/4 cup almond flour for some of the regular flour/no almond extract. Used regular size semi sweet chips…#24 scoop (1/3 smaller than yours). I had some doubts they would be cooked at 12 minutes. Same time, same temp. I like the idea of making the batter ahead of time. When I get home from a day at the office, I rarely have time to prepare and bake something.
Perfect!
P.S. And, I do think mini chips would be better as you suggested. This dough isn’t really “scoopable,” so having smaller chips would make it much easier to gather the dough up. So worth the extra time. I made something very similar years ago based on America’s Test Kitchen taste test. Yours were much more substantial and consistent. 🙂
Thanks Ellen! I love that you subbed almond flour. I need to try that! 🙂
Oh my gosh, ice cream. I’m always so proud of myself when I make a carton last longer than 2 days – but I think I have serving size issues. Anyways these cookies look Ah-Mazing! There is nothing better than bakery cookies, I’m so excited to try these!!!
So, I made these. AHH-MAZZIING! I switched out the all-purpose flour for gluten-free all-purpose flour, and put Enjoy Life mini chocolate chips and some pecans in it. Wow. That brown butter really makes a difference. Great recipe!!
Thank you Julie!
I love a big cookie! I will definitely try this recipe, Dorothy!
Enjoy! Thanks Shiloh!
These look incredible! i’m still a bit intimidated by browning butter – I’ve never done it 🙂 But it sounds fabulous with cookies! Haha oo and I’m with you on the sourdough bread and oreos.. BIG no no in the house, I have absolutely zero willpower!
You can totally skip that part if you’re worried!! Thanks Kristina!
Oh my goodness, look at these cookies! I need them to go with my glass of milk!
That would be amazing Steph! 🙂
Simply delicious! Nothing better than a gooey chocolate chip cookie!
That’s for sure Tonia!
I love brown butter in cookies. It totally makes them way better!
Yes it totally does!
Dorthey,
Hubby asked me to make some choc chip and oatmeal cinn raisen cookies , last nite. Figured this gave me the chance to use your recipe for Bakery Style XL Choc Chip cookies. As I started mixing the dough, and when I started to add the flour.mixture in, after I added the 2nd cup of flour it became very stiff that I had to add the last of the flour by hand. I had to ask hubby to add the last of the flour and was only able to add 1/2 c mini choc chips, the dough before and after refridgerated was so stiff and crumbly. I followed the recipe exactly and browned the butter. I’ can’t scoop the dough to stiff and dry. Could you suggest something that might help? Wanted to verify the recipe with you.
2 sticks butter melted and lightly browned
3/4 c sugar
1 c brown sugar
2 lg eggs
1 tbs vanilla
2 tbs almond extract ( I use this in most of my cookie recipes, )
3 1/4 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 c mini choc chips
Hubby said to call for the 911 cookie help. lol he asked me to make ice cream sandwhiches with them.
Thank you
Melody
I’ve no problems with recipes by you.
I’m sorry you had trouble with the recipe Melody! That’s so strange! Did you mix all the ingredients together with the melted butter? Usually when I mix it when the butter is melted/browned (and still liquid) it’s almost too gooey to scoop, which is why I chill it. Were you mixing it by hand? Or with a mixer? Possibly the butter cooked down too much when you were browning it? The recipe you used was the same as mine, except for the extra almond extract, so I’m not sure what would have gone wrong. 🙁
You better have some of these stashed still! I’m coming over!
I wish, I ate too many!
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