The Best Ever Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

2025 update on this old post from 2007: 

I jinxed this cookie recipe below calling it The Best Ever.  It was a really, really good recipe. And then I got a new stove. Or a microwave. Or the butter industry changed the milk fat content in butter. Who knows? But the cookies made with MY favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe started yielding flat cookies. I think it's my stove, maybe...anyway, I had to develop a new cookie recipe, which I'm posting below the "best ever" cookie recipe.  If my old recipe works for you, then great! 

I've always wanted to write a "Best Ever" recipe. ;-) I developed this recipe by mistake. I was trying to soften the butter to make the Toll House recipe and I completely melted the butter. I decided to soldier on, but had to add in a bit extra flour, and the cookies ended up being the best ever. But I have tried making these in Florida and they flopped. I think it was the humidity. I put the name brands I use in as well for what I think might matter. People love these!

The Best Ever Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies  

by Dixie Redmond at northdixiedesigns.com

2 sticks Land O' Lakes salted butter
3/4 cup white sugar
1 cup (not packed) dark brown sugar (I use Hannaford brand)
2 eggs
2 1/2 to 2 3/4 cups Unbleached King Arthur flour
1 - 2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt butter in microwave safe bowl for 2 minutes until melted (but be careful not to scorch the butter). Remove from micro, stir in sugars. I use a Danish whisk for this and it is great. Stir in the eggs until it is really well mixed. Next add the vanilla. Mix again. In another bowl mix the flour and salt and baking soda together. Add to the butter/sugar mixture and mix until very well blended. Add the chocolate chips. Drop golf-ball sized balls onto a cookie sheet. I use a cookie scoop for this which looks like a miniature ice cream scoop. Bake batch for 12 minutes. Cool on pan for 1 minute, then remove to wire rack to cool.

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UPDATED recipe.... 

Finally Successful Chocolate Chip Cookies 

2  1/4 to 21/2 cups sifted flour (depending on egg size) 

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt 

3/4 teaspoons baking powder 

2 sticks softened butter

1 1/4 cup packed brown sugar

1/4 cup white sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 eggs

Chocolate Chips  1-2 cups, your preference. 

Preheat oven to 375 degrees 

Whisk dry ingredients together. 

Cream sugars and butter together. 

Add eggs and vanilla extract to butter/sugar mixture. 

Stir dry ingredients into wet. 

Drop by 2 tablespoon balls on cookie sheet. 

Bake at 375 degree for 10-12 minutes.