Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies – the BEST recipe to get soft and chewy chocolate chip cookies! You will never make another chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Originally published February 8, 2012 and updated on January 18, 2020.
This is my alltime favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. It has been my go to for 8 years now – thankfully I documented it on this blog so I know exactly how long I’ve been obsessed!
They are soft and chewy and just the most perfect cookie if you are a soft cookie person like me. And the best part is that they stay soft. They’re not going to dry out and be crispy on day 2 or day 3.
It’s that time of year. You know what time I’m talking about.
Girl Scouts have positioned themselves outside every grocery store, drug store, ballpark, everywhere you could possibly need to go. I try, I really do – I try to walk past them without making eye contact. It never works. This year was no different. I ended up with a box of Samoas (what’s the new name? Caramel something-or-another?) that my children demolished within seconds.
These bars, which are meant to be like my beloved Samoas, have been on my must make list for years now and I am so sad that I’ve waited this long to make them! They are so easy, so quick, and taste exactly like the Samoas. Please don’t be scared of the 3 steps. I’m telling you, there’s nothing difficult about this recipe.
If you wanted to take these one step further, you could dip the bottoms of the bars in melted chocolate. I’m not a chocolate fan so I skipped that part but if you wanted to, just melt a bag of chocolate chips instead of the 1/2 cup that this recipe calls for. Once it’s melted, dip the bars one at a time and then place on parchment (or wax paper) to harden.
This Blog Hop featured the new Pillsbury Purely Simple baking mixes. They contain simple ingredients, no colors, no preservatives, and no artificial ingredients. Have you tried them yet?
I used the Pillsbury Purely Simple for these Loaded Cookie Bars and it was fabulous. The mix only requires a stick of butter and an egg if you want to make sugar cookies. I, of course, added more than that! This bars have white chocolate chips, semisweet chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, coconut, and milk chocolate candies!
I would’ve added more but I ran out of things in my baking cabinet!
I love these kinds of bars! Something fun and different in every bite! Plus the chewy cookie itself!
And since I started with the Pillsbury Purely Simple baking mix, these took no time to whip up! The hardest part was waiting for the butter to soften!
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I couldn’t wait any longer to start using Halloween candy!
This is a fun post because not only am I sharing that delicious Halloween Candy Cookie Cake up there but I’m also showing you how to make a BOO Kit to surprise your friends, neighbors, co-workers, whoever!
So if you’ve never heard of a BOO Kit, it’s just a fun way to share some treats with the people you care about. You fill up a cute bucket with candy, creepy Halloween goodies, and top it off with a You’ve Been BOO’d! sign.
For my BOO Kit, I went with fun size M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, and TWIX®. And tiny cans of Sunkist® and A&W Rootbeer – they have the cutest monsters on the cans right now! I also added a couple cute Halloween cups, some orange and black paper straws, and a creepy spider in a web.
I got all the supplies at Walmart. They have a huge aisle of Halloween candy right now and you can find the cute Halloween soda in the regular soda aisle.
If you love the You’ve Been BOO’d sign, you can print that here.
You can also Save $1.00 on TWO (2) 2L or 6pk 8oz cans of any flavor Sunkist® Soda, 7UP®, Canada Dry®, A&W®, Squirt®, or Sun Drop® with this coupon!
And if by some weird chance you have leftover Halloween candy, you should chop it up and turn it into this delicious Halloween Candy Cookie Cake. I took my chocolate chip cookie cake recipes, left out the chocolate chips, and pressed M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, and TWIX® on the top before baking.
I added some frosting and chopped M&M’s® on top after it was cooled but feel free to skip that step! It’s really delicious. You can’t go wrong with a giant cookie with candy in it!
