Ultimate Gooey Chocolate Chunk Cookies
These bakery-style chocolate chunk cookies are thick, soft, chewy, and loaded with rich pools of melted dark chocolate in every bite. Made with real butter, dark brown sugar, and chunks of high-quality chocolate, these homemade cookies bake up with perfectly golden edges and gooey centers. A sprinkle of flaky sea salt adds the perfect sweet-and-salty finish that makes these cookies taste just like something from a high-end bakery. Whether you serve them warm with milk or pack them onto a holiday dessert tray, these chewy chocolate chunk cookies are always a crowd favorite.
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter 2 sticks, room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar dark
- 2 eggs large
- 1 egg yolk large
- 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 8 ounces baking chocolate 70% dark and roughly chopped
- 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- Flaky sea salt for topping
Instructions
Cream the butter and sugars
- Add the softened butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on high speed for about 6–7 minutes until the mixture becomes light, fluffy, and creamy. The texture here really matters for that bakery-style cookie.
Add the wet ingredients
- Mix in the eggs, egg yolk, and vanilla extract. Beat on medium-low speed for about 1 minute, just until fully combined.
- Add the dry ingredients
- Add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix on low speed for about 30 seconds. Don’t overmix.
Prep the chocolate
- Roughly chop the chocolate bars into chunks. To avoid too many tiny chocolate flakes in the dough, place the chopped chocolate into a colander or salad spinner and gently shake out some of the smaller bits.
Fold in the chocolate
- Set aside about 15–20 larger chocolate chunks for the tops of the cookies. Fold the remaining chocolate into the dough until evenly distributed.
Scoop and chill
- Using a large cookie scoop or a 1/2 cup measuring cup, scoop the dough onto a tray lined with parchment paper. For extra chocolate pockets, place a few reserved chunks into the scoop before adding the dough.
- Refrigerate the cookie dough for at least 4 hours, but overnight is even better for flavor and texture.
Bake
- Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Place 4 cookies per parchment-lined baking sheet since these cookies spread quite a bit.
- Top each cookie with a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.
- Bake for about 18 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown while the centers still look slightly soft.
- Let the cookies cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet before serving warm.
For ultra chewy bakery-style chocolate chunk cookies, chill the dough overnight before baking for deeper flavor and thicker cookies.
Notes
- Chilling the cookie dough is the key to thick, bakery-style chocolate chunk cookies with soft centers and crispy golden edges. The longer chill time helps deepen the flavor and improves the texture.
- Using chopped dark chocolate bars instead of chocolate chips creates rich melted chocolate pools throughout the cookies for a more gourmet homemade cookie recipe.
- Flaky sea salt on top balances the sweetness perfectly and gives these cookies that classic sweet-and-salty bakery flavor.
- For the best chewy chocolate chip cookies, avoid overbaking. The centers should still look slightly soft when removed from the oven.
- Room temperature butter creams more smoothly with the sugars and helps create a lighter cookie dough with better texture.
- These jumbo chocolate chunk cookies spread while baking, so leave enough space between each cookie on the baking sheet.
- Dark brown sugar gives the cookies a deeper caramel flavor and helps keep them soft for days.
- Pressing extra chocolate chunks into the tops before baking gives the cookies a more bakery-style appearance and extra melted chocolate in every bite.
- These homemade bakery cookies taste even better the next day once the flavors have fully developed.
- The cookie dough freezes beautifully, making it easy to bake fresh warm chocolate chunk cookies anytime.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g
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