Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

When I make cookies, I like to make them soft and chewy. I like the 'just out of the oven' feeling of the cookies, after I have long finished baking the cookies. How many times has it happened to you, that you bake a batch of chocolate chip cookies and they turn out exactly, soft and chewy the way you wanted? However, when you make the next time around using the same chocolate chip cookie recipe, they are thin, crisp. After some time, the soft chewy cookies become hard, while the thin cookies become soft. In such cases, you wonder what is the right method to make chocolate chip cookies, which are soft. Let's find out.

Trick to make Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies

The most important point to remember, when you are baking chocolate chip cookies, is that there should be higher percentage of moisture in them. Therefore, you will have to adjust the baking time, temperature, so that maximum moisture is retained in the cookies. You will have to use butter, eggs and brown sugar and flour to make the cookies. Brown sugar contain molasses, which have 10 percent water in them. You will also have to add extra flour to make the dough a little stiffer. This will ensure that less water evaporates from the cookies.

Along with the ingredients, you will have to change the method in which you make the homemade cookies. It is best to drop dollops of dough, when you are going to bake them. If you make them thin, chances are high that they will become hard. The next trick is to make thick cookies at high temperature, but for a shorter period of time. The cooking time should be short and the cookies should be removed from the oven as soon as the rim of the cookies start to brown. We will now learn how to make chocolate chip cookies.

How to Make Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies?

Just a small suggestion before we turn towards the recipe to chocolate chip cookies from scratch. In case you want to make the cookies cake-like rather super soft cookies, then you will have to increase liquid ingredients. It can either be water, egg or milk. The extra liquid ingredient will make the dough elastic and make the cookies cake like. Let's now turn to soft chocolate chip cookie recipes.

With Shortening
Most people who have had these easy chocolate chip cookies, have liked the recipe a lot. I have been using this recipe for a very long time. You may convert the recipe to make double chocolate chip cookies as well.

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup butter
• ½ cup shortening
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• ¼ cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda

Method

• Till you do the other preparations, let the oven heat to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
• In a mixing bowl, sieve all-purpose flour and baking soda.
• In another bowl, whip softened butter, shortening, brown sugar, white sugar and vanilla.
• Continue to whip, till a creamy mixture is formed.
• Then add the egg and whip again till well combined.
• Now slowly add flour mixture to it and mix to form dough.
• At last add the chocolate chips to the mixture.
• Place the cookies on a cookie sheet and let them bake for not more than 8 to 9 minutes.
• As soon as the rim start getting brown. Now the cookies using shortening is ready.

With Pudding
As the name suggests, this recipe uses pudding to lend soft texture to the cookies. These are healthy chocolate chip cookies as they are not made using all-purpose flour, rather they using whole wheat flour. You can also convert the recipe into healthy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies as well.

Ingredients

• 4 ½ cups whole wheat flour
• 4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
• 4 eggs
• 1 ½ cups packed brown sugar
• ½ cup white sugar
• 2 cups butter, softened
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 packages instant vanilla pudding mix
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Method

• Sift whole wheat flour and baking soda and keep aside.
• In a mixing bowl, whip butter, brown and white sugar together.
• Once they are well blended, add pudding mix to the mixture.
• Continue to mix, till all the ingredients are well combined.
• Now add eggs one at a time and vanilla extract to the mixture.
• After all the ingredients are well mixed, add sifted flour mixture and mix well to form a dough.
• Add chocolate chips to the mixture.
• Drop dollops of dough on non greased cookie sheet.
• Let the cookies bake till the rim become golden brown in color.

You can also make soft chocolate chip oatmeal cookies as well without sugar as well, in case you do not want to consume some extra calories. Take a look at the recipe to make sugar-free chocolate chip cookies.

Once you get the knack of making soft cookies, you will understand, that making them is not difficult. These cookies will remain soft, as long as they last. Make sure you do pay attention to the cooking time of the cookies, so that they are baked well.