Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

This Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe will be the recipe I will keep on hand forever. 

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When I heard that Joanna Gaines was putting out a cookbook, I didn’t think that I would get it. Then, Gabrielle and I were talking about baking and cooking and I thought it would be fun for us to make the recipes in The Magnolia Table Cookbook together. It was a new cookbook that neither one of us had seen so why not buy it and bond together over making every recipe. 

That’s what I did. I didn’t tell her that I was getting it and what my intentions were until the book arrived. (You can get the cookbook HERE.) I told her I had a little surprise for her and she opened the package and saw that it was The Magnolia Table Cookbook. She was excited, but a little curious. I explained to her what I was thinking and she started reading it before I could even open it. She was excited. She started in the desserts section and marked some recipes she wanted to try first. 

{Adapted from The Magnolia Table Cookbook. We changed the recipe for what we had on hand and even changed the process. They came out amazing!} 

Ingredients For Easy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe:

2.5 cups flour

1 heaping teaspoon baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

8 T. salted butter at room temperature (or close to room temperature as ours was)

Packed brown sugar – 2 cups

Eggs – 2

2 tsps. vanilla 

1 c. semi-sweet chocolate chips

1/2 c. milk chocolate chips

Directions For Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies:

We lined our cookie sheets with Silpat sheets and preheated the oven to 350°.

In a bowl, we mixed all of the dry ingredients together (flour, baking soda and salt). If you are cooking with your daughter, add the rest of the ingredients to the same bowl. Yep. That’s how we did it. She didn’t read the directions carefully enough and I really wanted her to take the lead. After we had everything in there, she saw that we needed to have two different bowls going (one for dry and one for the brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla), but I said let’s try it this way and see how they turn out. That’s how we learn!

So, we added all the other ingredients to the same bowl and mixed as we added. The dough was crumbly at first because our butter wasn’t exactly room temperature. We just continued to mix it though and the dough turned out great. Once the dough was mixed, we added the chocolate chips and mixed until they were well incorporated. 

To make the cookies uniform, we used our small cookie scoop to scoop the dough and place on the cookie sheets. 

We baked them for twelve minutes or until they were golden brown. 

I have to say that we have made a gazillion cookies over the years and sometimes I shy away from making them because they turn out flat or too crispy. This chocolate chip cookie did not. They were perfect. They were fluffy and not crispy at all. Matt and the kids were eating them right out of the oven which is their favorite and each one of them said that they were really good cookies. 

The next time I make chocolate chip cookies, I will make them just like we did this time. One bowl and all. Hey, if the recipe ain’t broke, why fix it? 🙂

Did you get The Magnolia Table Cookbook? What was the first recipe you tried? 

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