Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies
One secret ingredient keeps these Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies chewy and tender for days. It's a fail proof recipe that always turns out perfectly!
Servings: 72
Ingredients
- 4 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups unsalted butter, softened just to room temp
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar, packed
- 6.8 oz instant vanilla pudding
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 4 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, (minis and chunks work great too!)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add flour, baking soda, and salt. Whisk together well and set aside.
- In bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the softened butter and brown sugar on medium high, until light and fluffy. Add packages of pudding mix, and beat until incorporated. Add eggs and vanilla, blending well.
- Slowly add in the flour mixture. Using dough hook attachment, fold dry and wet ingredients together just until fully incorporated
- Add in chocolate chips and mix into the dough. If it gets too hard to mix, I sometimes use clean hands to work the dough.
- Cover tightly and chill in fridge for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Form 1 inch balls of dough and place on baking sheet. Bake about 8 minutes or just until edges look golden brown. Cookies may seem slightly underdone, but they will firm up upon cooling. Do not over bake.
- Cool on baking sheet about 10 minutes, and remove to wire rack to finish cooling.
Notes
- Yields about 72 smaller sized cookies. If you’d like to make them larger, bake a couple minutes longer and just until edges are golden brown and center looks slightly under-baked. Key is not to over-bake.
- These cookies keep very well at room temp in an airtight container. Unbaked cookie dough can be tightly wrapped up and frozen for later use.
- Make sure to pack the brown sugar into your measuring cup firmly for best results.
- Cookies will look under-baked out of the oven. But don't worry. They'll set completely as they cool!
- These cookies are part of our Delicious Cookie Recipes Collection.
Nutrition (per serving)
Calories: 181kcal | Carbohydrates: 20g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 10g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 23mg | Sodium: 87mg | Potassium: 95mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 11g | Vitamin A: 178IU | Calcium: 16mg | Iron: 1mg