These Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are loaded with chocolate chips and cook up picture perfect every time.

Not only do these Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies taste wonderful, they cook up picture perfect just like the ones you see in bakery shops. And I love the giant size of them. I feel like I’m REALLY getting a treat when I eat one.

There are many chocolate chip recipes that produce different types of cookies. Some are thin and crispy, others soft and cakey. Chewy cookies are my favorite.

How To Produce A Chewy Cookie

As far as chewy cookies go, I think this recipe from Cook’s Illustrated is the best there is.

There are three things in this recipe that help produce a chewy cookie: extra fat (in this case an egg yolk), using melted butter instead of softened butter, and a shorter cooking time.
When you pull the cookies out of the oven they will be slightly undercooked, but just perfect once cooled.

Cook’s Illustrated even has a trick for getting that gorgeous rippled top. You measure out 1/4 cup batter, pull the dough into two pieces using your hands, rotate each piece 90 degrees so that the ripped parts are now facing up, and then you press it back together into one piece. You’ll feel a little strange doing this to the dough, but it really does result in beautiful cookies that look like they were purchased at a bakery.

Kitchen Tools Needed

Electric Mixer– a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment is be...