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The Best White Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are the Best White Chocolate Chip Cookies ever! Buttery and soft cookies loaded with white chocolate chunks and crisp around the edges. An easy dessert that’s sure to become your family’s favorite white chocolate chip cookie.

My Favorite White Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’m sorry about these cookies in advance. And I should also apologize about the name. I sorta kinda hate when someone tells me something is the BEST.  Well, because then I need to prove you wrong. So let me say, these are the best white chocolate chip cookies that I ever ate.  Is that better?

You see, usually white chocolate chip cookies come with other stuff mixed in, like coconut, or macadamia nuts. And while I love coconut, there’s a time and place people. Time and place. Plus, simple is pretty much better. Never once have I ever heard, “Can you please make this recipe a little more complicated?” Simple wins.

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Why Are These The Best White Chocolate Chip Cookies?

  • First they are LOADED with white chocolate chunks. (And also, makers of white chocolate…can you people please make mini white chocolate chips?  While I wouldn’t use them in this recipe, I would work those guys out in other ways.)
  • Second, they are buttery and soft and an eensy bit crispy around the edges.
  • They’re super easy to make!
  • And yes, in the end you can absolutely use semi-sweet chocolate in this recipe if white chocolate just isn’t your thing!

Ingredients You Will Need:

  • Butter at room temperature
  • Light brown sugar
  • Granulated sugar
  • Eggs
  • Vanilla extract
  • Kosher salt
  • Baking soda
  • Baking powder
  • All purpose flour
  • Coarsely chopped white chocolate or you can use white chips as well!

How to Make This Easy White Chocolate Cookie Recipe

Here’s how I did them…

Brown sugar is key…

Brown sugar and white sugar in measuring cups

I used 20 ounces of white chocolate, chopped fairly coarsely.

Chopped white chocolate on a cutting board

I like the huge chunks in these cookies.

I’m not a huge chocolate chunk girl, but white is a whole different story.

Chopped white chocolate in a measuring cup

The batter is pretty easy.

Once you get the chocolate chunks folded in, you can chill the dough OR you can bake them straight away. LOVE that option!

A bowl of cookie dough with white chocolate chunks

Form the dough into balls and place on a lined baking sheet about 2 inches apart. You can use a cookie scoop too, whichever you prefer!

Cookie dough balls with white chocolate chunks on a parchment-lined baking sheet

When they bake they’ll look like this…

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I have adapted this recipe slightly over the years, based on reader feedback! I’ve made chilling the dough an optional step (although I still like to). And I tweaked a few ingredients based on mixed results. I love this recipe and with some of your comments I think these cookies can’t be beat!

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The Best White Chocolate Chip Cookies

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  • Author: Cookies & Cups
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes
  • Yield: 36 Cookies 1x
  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Oven
  • Cuisine: American

Description

These are the Best White Chocolate Chip Cookies ever! Buttery and soft cookies loaded with white chocolate chunks and crisp around the edges. An easy dessert that’s sure to become your family’s favorite white chocolate chip cookie.


Ingredients

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  • 1 cup butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup light brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 20 oz coarsely chopped white chocolate (2 1/23 cups) You can use white chips as well

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350° and line an baking sheet with parchment paper, set aside.
  2. In bowl of stand mixer cream together butter and both sugars for 2 minutes in medium speed.
  3. Turn speed to low and add in eggs and vanilla. Turn mixer back up to medium and beat until smooth, about 20 seconds.
  4. Turn mixer back to low and add in salt, baking soda, baking powder and flour, mixing until just combined.
  5. Fold in white chocolate chunks.
  6. Form dough into heaping tablespoon sized balls (I used a 2 Tbsp cookie scoop), placing 2 inches apart on baking sheet.
  7. Bake for 8-10 minutes until golden around edges. Don’t over-bake.
  8. Allow to cool on baking sheet for 3-5 minutes before transferring to wire rack to finish cooling.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Cookie
  • Calories: 162
  • Sugar: 15.5 g
  • Sodium: 102.6 mg
  • Fat: 7.7 g
  • Carbohydrates: 21.7 g
  • Protein: 2.4 g
  • Cholesterol: 13.4 mg

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173 comments on “The Best White Chocolate Chip Cookies”

  1. I made this for my friend and our families and everybody absolutely LOVED them!
    They turned out exactly like I wanted and taste so good. This recipe makes flatter cookies (which are the best in my opinion) and they still taste soft and fluffy! ❤️❤️❤️






  2. These are my absolute FAVOURITE cookies ever. I am not kidding you I have made this recipe so many times (seriously probably over 60 times) that I have it memorized. Best chocolate chip cookie recipe I’ve been able to find, hands down!






  3. Thanks for the recipe!! Looks like people either love or hate these cookies – I LOVED them! Just finished my second batch, added a bit more flour as they spread out too much the first time, but for half batch, 1/2 cup extra flour did the job for me! I also added about 2 tbs maple syrup which made them even better in my opinion!






  4. This is the best cookie recipe I’ve ever made!!!! Everyone that tried them said they were outstanding!!! Thank you for sharing such an easy, delicious recipe ??






  5. Kelly Coombes

    AMAZING GOOEY COOKIES!!

    was dubious to start as there is some bad reviews, I took the comments into consideration and my tips are:
    Unsalted butter
    Pinch of salt
    Half the white choc
    Cut out the bicarb

    They are amazingggg!!! We made milkshakes with some of the dough, had warm cookies and ice cream too.

    Thank you for the great recipe

    X






  6. My cookies came out on the puffy side (more cakey than thin cookie). Here I was thinking what went wrong until I read the comments. I think the dosage on the baking powder/soda may be a bit much? Anyway not horrible but unfortunately not the best cookie in my opinion.






  7. I think these cookies are delicious. Mine stayed puffy, too. I prefer a little flatter cookie but it’s not a big deal. I added chopped pecans because I love nuts in cookies. Also used Stevia instead of granulated white sugar. I guess with white chocolate, nuts, and a ton of butter, cutting a few calories really is a moot point. I used salted butter and the regular amount of salt called for in the recipe and I didn’t think they were too salty.

  8. lexi eleopoulos

    These turned out so good!!!! Instead of me using the butter as you said, my family loved the butter brown recipe I used for my cake. So I put the butter chopped it up and put in a pan on medium heat and let it simmer for 10to 15 minutes until brown it turned out so yummy. I never saw the yield so I doubled the recipe now we have 72 cookies and there are only 4 of us!!! LOL






  9. Joud Alghamdi

    I didnt like the cookies that much sorry but it was too salty and thick for some reason and my mom is a
    baker and she helped me this recipe wasn’t that good for me ill try another website ?






  10. My cookies didn’t flatten very much at all. They look like little biscuits. They turned out really tasty the only other thing I’ll say is it does taste salty. Anyone else experience the same as me? I followed the recipe as closely as possible.

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