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Updated Mar 21, 2024
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Add these nutty chocolate chip cookies to your dessert table - ready in 20 minutes.

More About This Recipe

  • Chocolate chip cookiesare one of the most all-American desserts out there. You would be hard pressed to find a person who didn’t love these cookies and most have a beloved recipe that has been handed down in their family. The chocolate chip cookie came to be when Ruth Graves Wakefield, a chef at the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, broke a semi-sweet Nestlé™ chocolate bar into pieces and added the pieces into a cookie recipe. Wakefield sold her easy chocolate chip cookie at her restaurant and soon people were buying the cookies from the restaurant’s gift store and sending them to loved ones serving in World War II. The soldiers shared their cookies with their fellow comrades and the chocolate chip cookie phenomenon spread like wildfire across the nation. Today, the classic chocolate chip cookie has evolved into a recipe that professional and home bakers are forever improvising. What we love most about the chocolate chip cookie is that it’s irresistible on its own, but it can also serve as the base ingredient for another amazing dessert. Check out our tips for how to hack your chocolate chip cookie and you’ll never run out of reasons to make this classic cookie.

Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • Prep Time 10 min
  • Total 20 min
  • Ingredients 10
  • Servings 48
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Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 cup butter or margarine, softened
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 large egg
  • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour*
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup coarsely chopped nuts
  • 1 bag (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips (2 cups)

Instructions

  • Step 
    1
    Heat oven to 375°F.
  • Step 
    2
    In large bowl, beat sugars, butter, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on medium speed, or mix with spoon. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt (dough will be stiff). Stir in nuts and chocolate chips.
  • Step 
    3
    On ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart.
  • Step 
    4
    Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft). Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to wire rack.

Nutrition

140 Calories
8g Total Fat
1g Protein
16g Total Carbohydrate
10g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Cookie
Calories
140
Calories from Fat
70
Total Fat
8g
12%
Saturated Fat
3 1/2g
17%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
15mg
5%
Sodium
80mg
3%
Potassium
55mg
2%
Total Carbohydrate
16g
5%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
10g
Protein
1g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
4%
4%
Vitamin C
0%
0%
Calcium
0%
0%
Iron
4%
4%
Exchanges:
0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 1/2 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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