Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
These Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and gooey with chocolate in every bite. Made at home for much less than a bakery and so much better !!
These Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies are soft and gooey with chocolate in every bite. Have these cookies at home for a fraction of the cost of buying them at the bakery. Boutique cookie bakeries have been popping up all over the place offering all kinds of specialty cookies. It reminds me of the cupcake craze from about fifteen years ago. If you have been to any of these cookie shops you know you will pay anywhere from $3 to $6 per cookie. Seems pricey but they are always so good! I got the inspiration for this cookie from my Fluffy Chocolate Chip Cookie where I added corn starch to the flour to make a soft , tender and fluffy cookie cookie.
These cookies are monsters, they are so big. Baking a cookie this big there are a few things you will need to know and directions you need to follow . Also you will need a few pieces a equipment but most people have these things anyway. For the best results follow the direction exactly .
What you will need to make Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies:
** This post contains affiliate links which means I may make a small profit from products at no cost to you . Just to note I only recommend products I use and love Click HERE for full disclaimer
- Electric Mixer – Either a Stand up Mixer or Hand held Mixer. My Kitchen aid is my work horse!
- Several baking sheets-I like the large Baking sheet like this
- Parchment paper.. This is a must , everything bakes better on Parchment paper
- Kitchen scale– this is optional but if you want a more professional looking cookie you can weigh them to make sure they are the same size
- Sifter
- Rubber spatula
Commonly Asked Questions :
Do I have to sift the dry ingredients ? Yes , when you sift the ingredients it not any mixes all of the dry ingredients it puts air into the ingredients creating a fluffier cookie
What does the corn starch do for cookies ? The corn starch combines with the liquids and helps the cookie spread less giving a lighter and fluffier cookie
Do I really have to chill the dough before baking ? Yes this is an important step , if you don’t chill the dough the cookie will spread too much and be flat
What happens if I over mix the dough? If you over mix the dough it will make a tough and gummy cookie with a strange texture
Do I have to use Parchment paper ? Yes you really need to use parchment paper, everything bakes better on parchment paper. I don’t use silicone baking mats but this is another option
Let’s make Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Sift together the dry ingredients .
Add a little of the flour mixture at a time to the wet ingredients. Careful not to over mix . You want it just combined.
Fold the chocolate chips and chopped chocolate bar into the dough .
Divide the dough into 7 equal portions and form a ball . My balls were about 6 ounces each.
Mix the the 2 chocolate chips in a small bowl and coat the top and sides with them. Do not coat the bottom.
Place the coated cookie dough balls on a tray and chill for 6-8 hours . DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP or your cookies will spread too much
Once the dough is chilled preheat you oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and place 3 to 4 cookie balls on the parchment paper . Remember to leave enough room for the cookies to spread.
Bake for 20-25 Minutes or until golden brown around the edges.
Let the cookies cool for 15 minutes on the cookie sheet , With a large spatula move them to a cooling rack to continue cooling .
These are best slightly warm . Store in an air tight container and microwave in 15 second intervals until it is warm enough.
If you love this recipe check these out :
- Fluffy Chocolate Chip Cookies –Click HERE for A soft bakery style cookie but much smaller
- Key Lime Ricotta Cookies – Click Here A soft fluffy cookie kissed with citrus key lime
- Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie – Click Here for a soft oatmeal cookie with a nice banana flavor and chocolate chips in every bite
Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Unsalted Butter Room Temp
- 2 Eggs Room Temp
- 3/4 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 Teaspoon Vanilla extracts
- 2 3/4 cups all purpose Flour
- 2 Tablespoons Corn Starch
- 1 Teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Powder
- 1/2 Teaspoon salt
- 2 cups Semi Sweet Chocolate chips see notes
- 6-8 oz dark chocolate bar chopped-See notes
Topping
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup Semi Sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Beat with a mixer the room temperature butter and both sugars until it is nice and fluffy .
- Add One Egg at a time and the vanilla extracts
- Stopping to scrap down the sides a few times beat for about 3-4 minutes
- Sift together the dry ingredients . Do Not skip this step
- Add a little of the flour mixture at a time to the wet ingredients. Careful not to over mix . You want it just combined.
- Fold the chocolate chips and chopped chocolate bar into the dough .
- Divide the dough into 7 equal portions and form a ball . My balls were about 6 ounces each.
- Mix the the 2 chocolate chips in a small bowl. Coat the top and sides of the cookie dough ball with them, as many as you like. You don't have to put as many chocolate chips as I did just Do not coat the bottom .
- Place the coated cookie dough balls on a tray and chill for 6-8 hours . DO NOT SKIP THIS STEP or your cookies will spread too much ** See Notes
- Once the dough is chilled preheat you oven to 350 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and place 3 to 4 cookie balls on the parchment paper . Remember to leave enough room for the cookies to spread.
- Bake for 20-25 Minutes or until golden brown around the edges. Mine were good at 25 minutes but all ovens are different .
- Let the cookies cool for 15 minutes on the cookie sheet , With a large spatula move them to a cooling rack to continue cooling .
- These are best slightly warm . Store in an air tight container and microwave in 15 second intervals until it is warm enough.
Loved these cookies! They came out perfectly soft, and the chocolate chips were nice and gooey. Delicious cookie recipe!
I am so glad you liked them Amanda !!
Now that is an amazing chocolate chip cookie! I can’t wait to make these.
I hope you like it .
The key to success with these cookies is to sift the flour and chill the dough. So good! I made mine a bit smaller in size but they turned out amazingly delicious!
Making them smaller is a option and still just as good. I am so glad you liked them.
As someone who’s worked in my fair share of bakeries, I can vouch for the bakery style label on these chocolate chip cookies. They were so soft and perfect.
Thanks Marta , I am so glad you liked them.
You had me at “bakery style!” These cookies look amazing! Thank you for adding pictures in your step by step directions. Very helpful!
These chocolate chip cookies are soft and gooey, buttery and packed with chocolate. They seem like they come out from a fancy bakery!
Yum! No need to head to the bakery when I can make these at home! So delicious!
My thoughts exactly!!
These look SO soft but my goodness look at all those chips!! Eek! I want to reach into my screen and grab one…definitely need to whip up a batch of these this weekend ^_^
I am in love with this chocolate chip cookie recipe. I have tried many recipes and this came out perfect the very first time. No tweaking and made it exactly as you wrote.
YUMMY!!!!! These were so delicious!! I made them with King Arthur
all purpose gluten free flour ( my husband cannot have gluten) and used white chocolate chips in place of the dark chocolate bar (because I didn’t have it on hand) and they came out perfect!! Everyone commented on how delicious the cookies were and the best part was they did not know they were gluten free.
I will make these over and over again!!
I am so glad you and your family enjoyed these. Also thanks for letting me know you used gluten free flour and it worked , I occasionally get GF questions.
Can you double the recipe or does that mess it up??
You can double with no problem . The only problem you might have is stressing the motor on your mixer.
I would love to try these! Can you leave the dough in fridge overnight?
Yes you can , they need to be chilled at least 4 hours .
Can I add espresso powder to this? And can I brown the butter?
I have never used brown butter but I don’t why you couldn’t. When Adding expresso powder I would subtract the amount of flour. Like of you add a Tablespoon of espresso powder subtract a tablespoon of flour.
Hi. Can you tell me the calories for the chocolate chip cookies please. Thank you. Susan. [email protected].
Susan I added the nutritional info but keep in mind it is only a estimation .
This is a great recipe! Good flavor, not too sweet, light and tender. I’m keeping a batch of dough in the freezer.
I am so glad you liked them Autumn . Great idea to keep the dough in reserve lol.
how long should you bake if you want to make smaller
If you make these smaller I would treat them like any other cookie , 10-15 minutes just watch them