These Chocolate Chunk Cookies are thick, buttery, loaded with chocolate chunks and topped with a sprinkle of sea salt to create your new favorite cookie recipe!
Chocolate Chunk Cookies are essentially the best Chocolate Chip Cookies. No really, they are!
You take the base of an amazing chocolate chip cookie, but instead of little chocolate chips you add massive hunks of chocolate.
How could that not be better? Just look at all those melted chocolate chunks in that cookie.
And to really raise these Chocolate Chunk Cookies to the next level, I generously sprinkle on some flaky sea salt.
Adding sea salt on top of a classic chocolate chip cookies deepens and brings out the chocolate flavor, but also helps to keep the sweetness in check.
One Pound of Chocolate
These Chocolate Chunk Cookies use one whole pound of a rich chocolate bar.
While I am normally a milk chocolate girl, in chocolate chip cookies I like to use semi sweet chocolate.
However, you can use semi sweet, extra dark, milk chocolate or even a mixture in this recipe!
Just whatever you do, chop it up roughly so you have nice sized chunks spread throughout your cookies.
Add that extra egg yolk to your Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Don’t skip that extra egg yolk in the recipe for these cookies. It’s important!
Heck, add an extra egg yolk to your favorite chocolate chip cookies recipe and tell me what it does! I’ll be here waiting!
Just kidding, but in all seriousness, adding an extra egg yolk to cookie recipes like this is an awesome tip.
Egg yolks are where all the fat and richness in an egg comes from.
The fat content from an added egg yolk can increase richness, tenderness and moistness to your cookies.
Melt that butter!
Like most of the recipes around here, I like to keep it super easy when I can. That way we can have cookies everyday! 😉
So for these Chocolate Chunk Cookies, we use melted butter in the dough.
That way you don’t have to wait around for butter to get to room temperature or play the game of trying to soften it quickly.
Anytime you want these cookies, just melt that butter and you will have a warm cookie and a glass of milk in about 20 minutes.
Or if you are feeling extra crazy, brown the butter and then let it cool. It will give the cookies an added layer of depth and a slightly nutty flavor!
Make sure and catch the video for these Chocolate Chunk Cookies to see how simple the recipe is to make.
But don’t worry, while the recipe may be simple, they do not taste simple.
The buttery tender cookies are filled with big rich chocolate chunks and topped with flaky sea salt. (affiliate link)
The flaky sea salt on top deepens and brings out the chocolate flavor and keeps the sweetness in check.
Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 ½ cups packed light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs, plus 1 egg yolk
- 1 lb chocolate bar (milk or semi sweet), chopped into chunks
- flaked sea salt, optional
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Line two baking sheets with silicone baking mats or parchment paper, set aside.
- In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine melted butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract and beat for 1 minute. Add the eggs and beat until well combined.
- Turn the mixer to low and add in the flour until smooth. Fold in chocolate chunks by hand.
- Using a large cookie scoop, drop large balls of dough (about 3 tablespoons worth of dough) onto prepared baking sheets. Leave about 2 1/2 inches between dough balls for spreading.
- Bake for 12-14 minutes, or until golden brown on the edges. Tops of cookies might seem under cooked. Make sure to not over-bake!
- If desired, sprinkle the tops of cookies with flaked sea salt as soon as you remove them from the oven.
- Cool cookies for 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.
- Serve them warm with a glass of milk.
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must try!! Thank you for a recipe!
These are the best thing I’ve ever tasted! Love this recipe!
Yummy ! These are keeper definitely 🙂
These cookies are amazing!
Such a game changer not using my kitchen aid! I’m definitely going to make these for my sisters birthday party.
CHUNKS are the game changer <3
Thank you for yet another fantastic recipe!
So glad you love them Rachel!!
Hi Jessica! I followed the recipe and my batter ended up runny! Can you help me?
Hi Lucy, did you possibly use too much butter (it’s the only real liquid)? It only uses 2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter with 3 whole cups of flour. So the batter should be no where near runny.
I used the amount of butter stated in the recipe. I’m wondering if it wasn’t cooled enough? My dough never got a dry and smooth consistency, it stayed sticky and wet. I attempted to add more flour but the cookie didn’t have a good result.
Looks divine! Need to make a batch of these, everyone will surely love this!
I will take a dozen of these delicious cookies! They are seriously loaded with chocolate chips and are pure perfection!
This will quickly disappear at my house!
These cookies turned out amazing- thanks!
These cookies have got to get in my cookie jar! They look so good!
These cookies are perfect for nibbling on a terrace this summer with a cup of cold milk. I bet my kiddo will love them. Chocolate makes any dessert so refreshing and light. Delicious!
Those looks absolutely perfect, can’t wait to try them!
The picture alone is making my mouth water. They look so delicious !