Tuesday Dinners

Colossal Chocolate Chip Cookies

For when you only want one…

⏲️ Prep Time
10 Minutes

⏲️ Cook Time
20 Minutes

🍴 Makes
12

Ingredients

  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter (room temperature/softened)
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • However much vanilla extract you want
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • Pinch of salt
  • 3 1/4 cup flour
  • 12 ounces chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Cream your butter and sugar together
  2. Add eggs, vanilla extract, baking soda and salt to butter and mix together
  3. Add flour one cup at a time, mixing between
  4. Add chocolate chips, mix all together
  5. Separate dough into a dozen even pieces, roll into a ball, then flatten into a disk about an inch tall, leave plenty of room in between cookies
  6. Bake for 15-20 minutes in a 375 degree oven

Step by Step Directions

First things first we need to cream the butter and sugar. This is just a fancy term for mixing them until they are combined. If you’re interested in what this does it’s incorporating air into the mixture which you will be able to taste in the finished product as the texture of the baked good.

The key here is to have room temperature/softened butter. We don’t want chunks, we want to be able to combine everything evenly and smoothly. Any chunks of butter you see in the below pictures is just pure laziness on my part.

Now add your eggs, baking soda, salt and vanilla extract. I didn’t put a measurement for the vanilla extract because you’re probably like me and love the taste and smell of anything that uses it, so load it up with as much as you’re willing to spare. (If you can’t function without a measurement, 2 teaspoons)

Mix everything together, think to yourself that having a stand mixer would be nice, and then keep mixing.

Now you’ll want to slowly add in and mix your flour. You might think the extra quarter cup was a mistake, it wasn’t. The key to keeping everything in one piece at the size we’re going to be making is the extra reinforcement from the extra flour.

While you’re mixing everything together it will take on a thicker texture than you might be used to for cookies, that’s good, that’s the goal.

Once all your flour is combined add in your chocolate chips and give it a final mix.

Now you’ll want to separate your dough into twelve even pieces and roll them each into a ball.

Then taking a plate, a spatula or your hand smush them into a flat disk about an inch high, make sure to leave additional space in between the cookies because they will flatten and expand in the oven.

Bake them in a 375 degree oven for 15-20 minutes (until they are as brown as you would like them).

Something to watch out for here is that the bottoms may get burnt before the top is done cooking, there’s two ways around this, either make your disks a little flatter if you’re worried about the bottoms being burnt, or halfway through the bake flip your cookies. If you opt for the second option they may look a little funny, but they won’t be too dark.

Enjoy.

Variations

  • Use something other than chocolate chips (chopped up chocolate bars also work, especially if you want to lean into the “big” aspect)
  • Make them smaller (but then why are you here?)
  • Make one normal sized one and then give that to someone you only kind of like

Unsolicited Feedback

  • HP: They aren’t… as crumbly as I would like.
  • LK: This is awesome, it’s as big as my head!
  • TM: They’re bigger than they need to be, aren’t they?