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Hi I’m Sally and I am in love with chocolate chip cookies. It’s the perfect time to share that with you as next week is National Chocolate Chip Cookie week. Yes, I follow the food holidays. It makes this job more fun. 
A week totally devoted to Chocolate Chip Cookies has me eager to share a post totally devoted to chocolate chip cookies.
About 6 months ago I shared my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe with you. You all love these cookies so much! And I’m so glad because they are my go-to recipe.
They are perfect in my mind. Let me count the ways:
1) Soft-baked quality due to the added cornstarch
2) Incredibly thick due to the added cornstarch
3) Remain soft for days and ironically, get softer on day 2 – a quality not present in most recipes
4) Straightforward and easy recipe – no extra egg yolks, no excessive amounts of anything
5) A higher ratio of brown sugar to white sugar, making the cookies extra moist and soft
6) Dark brown sugar gives them a richer flavor
7) The dough itself tastes phenomenal on its own
8) Gorgeous crinkled, textured tops
9) Amazingly chewy edges
10) Can easily be made with browned butter instead (wow)
I have plenty of chocolate chip cookie recipes on my website – some made from this cornstarch dough, some made to taste like cake batter, double chocolate, triple chocolate, salted caramel, peanut butter, mint, M&Ms, strawberry, pumpkin, oats, healthy, and decadent.
That’s a lot of cookies! But like I said before, I am in love with them. 
Here is my treasured chocolate chip cookie list.
1) First thing’s first. My favorite thick and soft chocolate chip cookie recipe.
All of the photos above are of this cookie recipe. See list above for why they are so spectacular as well.
2) My Butterscotch Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies are made from the popular Cook’s Illustrated Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. The emphasis is on chewiness. Lots of “chewy” present in these. This recipe calls for 1 extra egg yolk. While the original recipe asks to use melted butter, I prefer to cream the butter in most of my cookie recipes. Butter in liquid form always makes my cookies so flat, so I stick with creaming the butter instead.
3) My most recent cookie recipe is for my Brown Butter Pretzel M&M Cookies. I used the same cornstarch “soft-baked” dough as my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe (#1). However, I browned the butter and chilled it into solid form before creaming it. The nutty, caramel-y brown butter brings SO much depth of flavor to these cookies.
They are salty and sweet and considered a new favorite.
4) My Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cookies have been made and loved by many and became quite popular overnight. They are SO easy to make using the convenience of cake mix. Thick, puffy, and remain soft for days. And they only take 20 minutes!
5) Have a GIANT craving for chocolate? Try my XXL Death by Chocolate Cookie. An easy recipe making just 1 large cookie. It’s a simple chocolate dough filled with chocolate chips and baked to soft, thick perfection. The inside tastes like a brownie! For major chocoholics.
6) Easily the most popular recipe on my blog are my Cake Batter Chocolate Chip Cookies. I go into an extensive explanation about why they are so wonderful and how it took me nearly 1 year and SEVERAL failed batches to get them perfect. They are thick, soft, and bursting with cake batter flavor. They are set to be featured in a magazine this spring as well!
Just look at how many people love them too.
7) Kevin’s monster bar craving had me whip up my Brownie Peanut Butter Cup Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars the other week. I used my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe as the base and topped it with peanut butter cups and a homemade fudge brownie recipe. To die for!
8) Peppermint Patty Chocolate Chip Cookies Bars are out of this world. Look at all of the mint goo! The bars are soft, thick, and bursting with chocolate chips. If you love peppermint patties, these bars a must try.
9) Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies use my favorite soft-baked cornstarch dough as the base. I stuffed them with chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, and Sno-Caps. A little unique upgrade to your regular chocolate chip cookie.
Look how thick they are!
10) Eat chocolate chip cookie dough in frosting form. Seriously, do it. My Fudge Brownie Cupcakes with Cookie Dough Frosting combine brownies and safe-to-eat cookie dough in one.
Look at all that frosting!
11) More cookie dough! In fudge form, of course. My Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge is easy to make and eat bite tastes like pure cookie dough. It’s a miracle fudge, trust me.
12) When in doubt, use salted caramel. My Salted Caramel Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies are currently in a contest and they may just be the best cookie I’ve ever baked. They have a brownie-like interior, are stuffed with oozing caramel and sprinkled with sea salt. And of course, studded with dark chocolate chips.
13) Chocolate Chip Cookie Granola Bars. Enough said!
14) Eat your cookie dough on a stick! Covered in chocolate. These Cookie Dough Truffle Pops were the first thing to disappear at one of my bake sales. Everyone LOVED them. Plus, they are fun to eat!
15) Double chocolate cookies mixed with peanut butter chocolate chip cookies and swirled into one enormous monster cookie? Yes, yes, and yes! These Soft-Baked Peanut Butter Chocolate Swirl Cookies are completely bonkers. In the best way possible!
16) Salted Caramel Pecan Chocolate Chip Cookies are like chocolate turtle candies, but better. Sticky, gooey, salty caramel with pecan chunks and a ton of chocolate chips. I used my favorite soft-baked cornstarch chocolate chip cookie recipe as the base for these.
17) Searching for low-fat, diet-friendly cookies that don’t taste healthy at all? You’ve come to the right gal. My Healthy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies were all I made in the fall and all I can think about right now. These cookies are made with no butter or oil and have a huge pumpkin flavor punch.
18) There was no one harmed making and eating my Death by Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies, but you surely will feel like you are in heaven taking one bite of these seriously fudgy chocolate and peanut butter chip cookies. They are made with pure melted chocolate – you can imagine why I call them “death by chocolate.”
19) My Toffee Potato Chip Chocolate Chip Cookies are for the ultimate sweet & salty lover. If you’ve never tried potato chips and chocolate before, you must. Adding toffee just makes everything better. Sweet and salty lovers unite! Trust me on these.
20) If you love mint & chocolate as much as I do, you must try my Andes Mint Chocolate Chunk Cookies. They are soft-baked, thick, and bursting with mint and chocolate. I add a touch of cocoa powder to the dough to bump up the chocolate flavor as well.
21) Take a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe and make it even better by turning it into a s’more. My S’more Chocolate Chip Cookies got me through a rough camping trip last year!
22) Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies are made from my favorite cornstarch soft-baked cookie dough. I just added mint chocolate chips to them.
23) These Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwiches start with my favorite cornstarch soft-baked cookie recipe. I rolled them into smaller balls before baking and stuffed chocolate frosting between two. The best kind of sandwich!
24) These popular White Chocolate Chip Cranberry Cookies became an instant favorite with us and all of my coworkers. And you too! I used my favorite cornstarch soft-baked cookie dough recipe and overstuffed it with white chocolate chips and dried cranberries.
25) Want to make a chocolate chip cookie even BETTER? Stuff them with Snickers.
Snickers Bar Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies 
So there you go. My chocolate chip cookie shrine.
What are your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes like?
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Ohhhh man. 25 chocolate chip cookie recipes? Madness. I want to try them all. But I’m going to start with your favourite recipe. Anyone who can give me 10 very good reasons to make cookies deserves to have their recipe made at least once (and probably many times after that). Thanks for sharing!
S. @ The Captivating Life recently posted..Shrimp, Avocado and Tomato Pasta Salad
Let me know how you like them! They are my favorite cookies – in the WORLD!
Fact: chocolate chip cookies make the world go ’round
Who doesn’t love a good chocolate chip cookie…or two?! Awesome list, Sally!
I have a confession: I STILL haven’t tried your cookie recipe with the cornstarch…I’m still addicted to the one egg, one egg yolk recipe you used to use before. But I promise, one of these days I’ll try the cornstarch one
Ikhlas recently posted..Recipe: Soft Baked Chocolate Chunk Cookies
both recipes are fantastic Ikhlas! The extra egg yolk recipe is a tad chewier, which I love. But I love how soft and thick the cornstarch recipe is.
Gosh we have the same tastebuds I swear! Well except for you- chocolate + pb and me chocolate + caramel! Either way I love everything you bake! Amazing post I can NEVER have enough chocolate chip cookies- my go to whenever I want something quick and sweet!
Elizabeth @ Confessions of a Baking Queen recently posted..Pudding Banana Bread
This is a massive cookie round up! I’ve seen two recipes with cornstarch in the cookies just this week, so I’m definitely going to try that. I love ‘em thick and loaded with goodies just like this. Next week’s gonna be a good week!
Marcie @ FlavortheMoments recently posted..Spicy Black Bean and Bacon Soup
Well that’s a sign you need to try out cornstarch, Marcie! Let me know how you like it.
I’m in love with this roundup! To have them all in one place…YES! So helpful (and probably for you, too, b/c you now can think back and have it all organized and in one place, with descriptions, etc.)
The best cookie you’ve ever made going to those new dark, dark ones? Interesting! Remember those dark choc cookies that are a CI adaptation and use like 5 bowls? What do you think the major diff between your new ones and those are? Other than way less work and little bowls and steps
And the cake batter taking a year and now will be in a magazine. Good things come to those who work for it. Amen girl. Congrats!
I llllloveeee this post. Thank you!
Averie @ Averie Cooks recently posted..Homemade Chocolate Peanut Butter
I knew you’d like this post Averie! The best chocolate cookie I’ve ever made are definitely the new super dark ones. The interior is thick, the edges are nice and chewy. And they are so soft! I dabbled around a bit with the amount of cocoa flour for those until I made a batch with just the perfect amount. I was sure to underbake them slightly as well to get that “soft-baked” quality. I do love the previous chocolate cookie recipe adapted from CI – don’t get me wrong. Those are insanely fudgy and are basically like brownies in my mind, but the newer chocolate cookies are just easier and taste just as good.
I am drooling over all those cookies
I had no idea there was a chocolate chip cookie week but you know I will be celebrating. I just have to decide which of your recipes I want to make : )
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Whatever you make, I hope you enjoy celebrating my friend!
This is like a delicious to-do list.
I have to say my favorites are the strawberry cake mix ones and the white chocolate chip craisin, but the cake batter and butterscotch ones are right up there! I’m sure you have hundreds of great variations ahead of you…looking forward to it! 
i LOVE those white chocolate chip carisin cookies! Beyond good. Oh and the cake batter ones. And the butterscotch pretzel ones. Ok, all of them…
So many amazing chocolate chip cookie recipes to choose from! The XXL death by chocolate cookie definitely catches my eye. Cookie dough fudge, too – wow! I’m sure glad you keep track of the food holidays. I’d be so upset if I missed chocolate chip cookie week!
jodye @ chocolate and chou fleur recently posted..Cinnamon Almond Flour Coconut Bites (And a Giveaway!)
that XXL cookie is definitely an eye catcher. And that fudge? holy moly. That stuff is dangerously good!
Be still, my heart! It will be the happiest week of my life!
Unless I overlooked it somehow, do you have a recipe -I mean quantities, temperature and baking time- for a cookie cake (?), like the ones you’d find at malls?
Hey Anna! I do not have a cookie cake recipe on my website (yet!). Sorry about that!
Your are awesome Sally! I love all your works and those pictures
Nur Ain recently posted..peanut butter banana bread with chocolate chips
Uuuuggghhh, Sally I just want to eat them ALL!! I’d give my left arm for one of the pretzel ones right now!
Ari @ Ari’s Menu recently posted..Drink & Dish: Vegan Shepherd’s Pie {with video!}
I can’t get over the cookies with pretzels – sweet + salty is my favorite combo, they look amazing! I have to send this to my momma and her college girlfriends, they’re gonna die
Allison @ Life’s a Bowl recently posted..Honeymoon [Pt. 2]
cookies with pretzels is my recent favorite. =)
Oh dear God! What a fabulous post to wake up to! Chocolate chip cookie week? Don’t mind if I do! Which ones will I celebrate with?? I need to make an extensive ingredient shopping list:)
Let me know if you make any of these cookies Meredith! Have a great weekend!
Can I please live with you??? This is an incredibly mouth-watering round up of cookies! I don’t which to try first!
tanya recently posted..Green Goddess Dip
It’s going to get me in trouble to look at all of these pictures at once. My mind is going to have a delicious cookie overload!
Kelly @ Hidden Fruits and Veggies recently posted..No-Clam and Potato Chowder
I’ll take one of each please
Rachel @ Baked by Rachel recently posted..Soft Guinness Pretzels with Sea Salt
Wow – what a collection! A warm chocolate chip cookie is just the things sometimes (okay…more like *all* the time)! I can’t seem to replicate that bakery style of choc chip cookie where the top is kinda rough and almost hard but the inside is super soft and chewy. I tried the Jacque Torres recipe but mine didn’t come out the way it was at his shop! I think my favorite recipe is just a relatively basic one from David Lebovitz.
Love your mix-ins. Do you like oats in yours? I guess that takes it to a different category but I love how a little (or a lot of oats) give them that chewy texture. : )
Monica recently posted..Vanilla bean cupcakes with buttercream frosting for Spring
Hey Monica! I do like oats in my chocolate chip cookies. In fact, oatmeal cookies are my favorite kind! Love the extra texture they give. I’ve never tried the Jacque Torres recipes actually, but I’ve always been intrigued by it.
Congrats on the magazine feature Sally, that is awesome!
Chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorites and I’d like a dozen of each recipe that you shared today. Thanks!
Anna {Herbivore Triathlete} recently posted..Weekly Rewind~Herbivore Triathlete Edition
Thanks for the congrats, Anna! Hope you had a great weekend.
What, only 25? That’s not a months worth. Get to work! Seriously, that is one amazing group of cookies. I started at the top saying, “I should bake that.” Then, as I scrolled down, I found myself repeating that line over and over until it became a mantra and I had no choice but to head straight for the kitchen.
Amazing, Sally!
Wendy recently posted..Marbled Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Thanks Wendy! Let me know if you make any of my cookie recipes sometime!
…and now I’m hungry. Need. To. Have. Cookies. Now.
Eva @ Eva Bakes recently posted..Alton Brown’s “The Chewy” chocolate chip cookie
I have thrown out all my other chocolate chip cookie recipes after baking yours. They always turn out fantastic with just the right amount of texture and size! I am a big fan and can’t wait to make some of these other varities!
Hey Jenifer! That’s so wonderful to hear! I’m glad you like my recipe so much. Let me know which other varieties you try sometime. Thank you!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Day??!! They really have thought of everything!
I’m loving this round up! I’m pinning and promise to make all 25!
Meghan @ The Tasty Fork recently posted..Thirty Minutes at Pier1 Imports
Perfect timing – I just stocked up on chocolate chips. Maybe I should go get more?
Emily @ Life on Food recently posted..Apple Cinnamon Muffins
There is *always* an excuse to go get more chocolate chips.
Thanks Emily!
A whole week dedicated to chocolate chip cookies?? I think that means we should hold a c/c cookie conference and I know EXACTLY who should be the moderator wink wink
Jess @ On Sugar Mountain recently posted..Cotton Candy Cupcakes
Dude, Sally, I have to make every last one of these! And I’m trying to lose a couple of pounds. You’re killing me here!
Chung-Ah | Damn Delicious recently posted..Blueberry Crumb Bars
Oh wow, what a fantastic round up! These all look wonderful. So many varieties of the classic cookie. I’m going to have to try those butterscotch pretzel cookies soon.
Lindsey (Lou Lou Biscuit) recently posted..S’mores Cake
Let me know how you like the butterscotch pretzel cookies, Lindsey!
You have a great collection of chocolate chip recipes over here. Hard to choose
This cookie round up just made the start to my weekend a thousand times better!
Nicole @ youngbrokeandhungry recently posted..Baked Turkey Meatballs with Cherries and Gruyere
Funny…I was just trying out a new chocolate chip cookie recipe tonight! I have been craving them all week!
Ashley @ Wishes and Dishes recently posted..Butterfinger Chunk Cookies
You know me and cookies. We’re like *this*
Amazing Sally!
Jenn recently posted..White Chocolate Cereal Treats with M&M’s
cornstarch!! I will try this next time. I make choco chip cookies a lot in this house. Also, I will take a dozen of each of these cookies please!
Stephanie @ Eat. Drink. Love. recently posted..Grapefruit Brûlée
it’s almost 1am and i just came across your post on my RSS reader. i kept my finger on the down arrow and closed my eyes til i got to the bottom. i can’t read this now cuz then i will HAVE to bake everything like right NOW. you are killing me. :>D
I love everything about this list, Sally. When is your cookie cookbook coming out???
Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl recently posted..Ham, Gouda and Potato Bake (for the crock pot!)
I’m blushing Ashley.
Thank you! Soon, I hope!
I need to try every single one. Today!
Miss @ Miss in the Kitchen recently posted..Salted Caramel Macchiato
mint chocolate is the best! yum yum!
Sally, I love what you’ve done with the cookie recipe! Thank you so much for visiting my blog and thank you even more for your glowing words about the recipe. You rock!
Kelsey recently posted..Meatless Monday–Oatmeal Smoothies
Hey Kelsey!! Thank YOU for the cookie recipe. It’s groundbreaking, really. I sing its praises every single day. You will not even believe how many readers write in to me about these cookies. I am a cornstarch queen now and always bake my chocolate chip cookies with it!
THANK YOU!
I think I’ve put on a stone just reading this, lol, I have so many ideas now. Don’t even know where to start. One word- amazing
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Hi Claire! Let me know if you make anything from this post! Or any post of mine. Thank you!
I love chocolate chip cookies too. They are my favourite of all desserts.
same here, Jolene – definitely a favorite and so much fun to play around with for different recipes.
My favorite are your sprinkle chocolate chip cookies….I have made those 3 times in the last couple of weeks……also I tried the chocolate with the white chocolate chip and those were good to…..I love all you suggestions for how to make the cookies better……I do think they lead to a better chocolate chip cookie….Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Monica! So glad you are learning more about cookie baking.