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If you’re a chocolate lover like I am you’re going to love these Double Chocolate Chip Cookies! I turned my most popular recipe for chocolate chip cookies into a chocolate cookie with chocolate chips! Every time I make these for a party they disappear fast; you’ll be a cookie hero with your family whenever you make them.
BEST Double Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
These cookies are just so easy to make, store, gift and eat. I love all sorts of cookie flavors, but chocolate chip is one of my favorites. Really, these Double Chocolate Cookies are my most favorite – they’re better than Subway – because they have all the chocolate in them! They’re chewy on the outside, soft on the inside and taste better than any other chocolate cookie you’ve ever had.
Because I use melted butter you can stir these in a large bowl by hand (but you can use a stand mixer if you want)! They’re easy with simple ingredients and DOUBLE the chocolate. Rest assured, everyone will love these – and they even freeze well too!
Ingredients Needed
- Butter: Start with melted butter – this makes it mix up easier! I know most cookies start with room temperature butter but my best recipes use melted.
- Sugar: Both granulated sugar and light brown sugar are used – be sure to pack your brown sugar.
- Cocoa Powder: You can use regular unsweetened natural cocoa powder, special dark, or Dutch process cocoa powder.
- Egg: The yolk adds chew and moisture from the fat, the white adds structure.
- Flour, Salt, Baking Soda: Typical dry ingredients for cookies. Be sure to measure your flour correctly.
- Chocolate Chips: Use your favorite brand! Trader Joe’s are my favorite brand of chocolate chip. You cause semi-sweet chocolate chips, chocolate chunks or even butterscotch chips.
How to make Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Stir melted butter with granulated sugar and brown sugar.
- Mix in egg, cocoa, baking soda, and salt.
- Slowly mix in flour and mix just until the batter is smooth and comes together. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl during mixing. Slowly mix in chocolate chips.
- Line a cookie sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Using a cookie scoop, scoop 2 tablespoon balls of dough onto the baking sheet. Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes.
- Bake chilled cookies 2-inches apart on baking sheets until they just lose their glossy sheen. Cool on cookie sheet at least 10 minutes before moving to a rack.
Expert Tips
- Chilling the dough for this recipe is super important. Without chilling the dough, they will flatten too much in the oven.
- As soon as the cookies come out of the oven, add a few chocolate chips on top. They’ll melt and make them extra chocolatey, gooey and look perfect.
- You’ll know they’re done as soon as they aren’t glossy.
- Use any kind of add-ins you like – dark chocolate chips, white chocolate, or even M&Ms!
FAQs
Store cookies in an airtight bag for up to 3 days.
You can also freeze them for up to a month or freeze the dough balls (before baking) for easy cookies anytime.
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup (113g) unsalted butter, melted
- ⅓ cup (67g) granulated sugar
- ½ cup (100g) packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¼ cup (20g) unsweetened cocoa powder not dutch process
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 ⅓ cups (165g) all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups (255g) chocolate chips (semi-sweet or milk)
Instructions
- Note: This dough requires chilling.
- Place melted butter in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment (or a large bowl if using a hand mixer). You can also just use a wooden spoon to mix these! Add granulated and brown sugars and mix on low speed until the mixture is smooth. Mix in egg and vanilla extract and mix on medium speed until combined.
- Mix in cocoa, baking soda, and salt, then slowly mix in flour and mix just until the batter is smooth and comes together. Be sure to scrape the sides of the bowl during mixing. Slowly mix in chocolate chips.
- Line a cookie sheet with a silicone baking mat or parchment paper. Scoop 2 tablespoon balls of dough onto the cookie sheet. Spacing doesn’t matter because you will be chilling the dough. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1-2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a second cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- Remove the chilled cookie dough balls from the refrigerator and space them 2-inches apart on the cookie sheets. Bake (2 tablespoon sized cookies) for 11-15 minutes, or until the edges are a light golden and the tops are no longer glossy. Let cool on the cookie sheets at least 10 minutes before removing.
- For the gooey chocolate chip look, top the just baked cookies with a few chocolate chips!
- Baking tip: be sure to rotate your pans partway through baking for best results. If you have two pans in the oven switch them, and rotate them 180°.
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Last Updated on February 16, 2024
Girl this recipe is amazing! I also added some instant coffee to bring out the cocoa and it turned out one of the best cookies I’ve ever baked.
Why not Dutch Process cocoa? I like dutch process much better than regular cocoa powder. I haven’t tried making these yet, but have every intention of doing so.
They haven’t been tested with Dutch Process and sometimes the reaction of that with baking soda can affect the outcome of the recipe. If you do try them let me know how it goes!
These cookies are quite nice but I could only make 13 😟 I think you need to recheck the recipe
It really depends on the size of your cookie scoop. My 2-tablespoon one usually makes at least 20. It also depends on the size of the chocolate chips. Some brands are bigger than others (and some flavors of chocolate chip are bigger than others) and that affects the outcome as well.
Good cookies but I agree with another commenter, I also only got about 13 cookies as well and I did 2 tablespoons sized scoops.
These are very good and chocolatey!! I did add some white chips and (a mini Marshmallow prior to baking). These are very sweet.
I followed the instructions exactly, I don’t know HOW these can come up “dry”. I, too, didn’t make them into balls prior to refrigeration. I made the balls just before baking, and they came out perfectly.
Next time I’m going to add peanut butter chips.
I love the texture of the cookies, but was disappointed on the lack of chocolate taste. They also came out very light in color, not the dark chocolate as in your picture. Should have been more that 1/4 cup of cocoa powder?
What kind of cocoa did you use?
I used Scharffen Berger for the cocoa powder.
I also had to flatten mine are they were done baking, they didn’t flatten quite enough
Should have stopped at the “I bake cookies with melted butter.”
What even is this recipe? Says it makes 24 but barely makes 12.
Turn back now!!
It should make at least 22 if you’re using a 2-tablespoon cookie scoop. The variation between 22-24 also depends on the size of chocolate chips.
Hi Dorothy, I cannot wait to try this recipe. I had a quick question about the quantity of Cocoa. I make the cookies with 2.5 cups of AP flour, so should I double the Cocoa? What should be the ratio, is it based on the qty of the flour? thanks so much!
If doubling the recipe you can double everything in the recipe.
These were AMAZING!!! And thank you for all the tips.
I did a mix of dark chocolate chip and peanut butter chips. I added and extra egg yolk to get that chewy flavor. I also added 1/4 tsp of Chili powder and 1/4 tsp of cinnamon and they had this nice little kick to them!
I chilled the cookies for about 1 hour and then let them sit outside for another 10 minutes before putting them on pans and baking them. They turned out very fluffy- but I just flattened them with a large cup. Not sure why this happened and I was pretty careful to make sure I chilled the dough and measured my flour very precisely, but oh well- they were still amazing in the end!! My family has already asked me to remake them!
Too cakey. I followed the recipe exactly and did not get cookies like pictured. Cakey not the right texture for cookies and the chocolate part does not taste chocolatey enough. Disappointed that it spent money on the ingredients for this.
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