These additional tender and chewy chocolate chip cookie bars are extremely straightforward to make. No mixer, dough chilling, or rolling into balls required! Sprinkle with flaky sea salt for slightly one thing additional.
I initially revealed this recipe in 2016 and have since added new images, a video tutorial, useful success suggestions, and extra flavors.
Style testers have at all times given these chocolate chip cookie bars a stamp of approval—and I’m so glad as a result of this dough makes my favourite chewy chocolate chip cookies, too. We’re speaking the softest, chewiest, thickest chocolate chip cookies to ever come out of my oven.
And if you happen to can imagine it, baking chocolate chip dough as cookie bars transforms them into one thing even higher. Plus, we don’t have to relax the cookie dough and we don’t must roll the dough into particular person cookies. So, they’re selfmade tender and chewy chocolate chip cookies, solely simpler to arrange. A lazy (I name it “drained”) gal’s cookie if you’ll. 😉
One reader, Kerri, commented: “I found this recipe after I wished chocolate chip cookies however didn’t really feel like ready for my butter to return to room temperature after which additionally ready for the dough to relax. It’s now considered one of my go-to cookie recipes for those self same causes and since these bars are so scrumptious!! The feel is nice and I like that they keep tender and recent for a pair days. My son loves the addition of coarse sea salt sprinkled on prime, too. ★★★★★”
Why You’ll Love These Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- Dense and buttery
- Additional chewy and further tender
- Similar to chocolate chip cookies, however they don’t unfold
- 100x simpler than making cookies—no particular person cookie dough rolling
- No electrical mixer wanted
- A fast no-chill cookie recipe
- Can simply be doubled for a bigger pan
- Topped with sea salt for slightly one thing additional
- Nonetheless tender and chewy on days 2 and three (in the event that they final that lengthy!)
Key Substances & Why You Want Every:
In case you’ve tried my beloved chewy chocolate chip cookies, you’re already accustomed to the benefit of this recipe. We’re utilizing virtually the identical cookie recipe, however baking them as bars. Right here’s what you want:
- Flour: All-purpose flour is the bottom of this recipe.
- Baking Soda: Baking soda helps these bars rise as they bake. Keep in mind the essential distinction between baking powder and baking soda?
- Cornstarch: Cornstarch offers the cookie bars that extremely tender consistency everyone knows and love. Plus, it helps maintain them splendidly thick.
- Salt: Salt provides taste.
- Butter: Use melted butter on this recipe for the chewiest cookie bars. As a result of we use melted butter, there’s no must get out your mixer.
- Sugar: I like to make use of a mixture of brown sugar and white granulated sugar this recipe. Extra brown sugar than white granulated sugar guarantees an additional tender and chewy cookie bar as a result of there’s extra moisture in brown sugar. I barely diminished the sugar within the bars; it made no distinction between the model examined with 1/2 cup sugar (100g).
- Egg & Egg Yolk: 1 egg binds the whole lot collectively and 1 additional egg yolk provides richness and chewiness. You’ll lose plenty of moisture by skipping that additional egg yolk.
- Vanilla Extract: Pure vanilla extract provides taste. When you have any selfmade vanilla extract, use that!
- Chocolate Chips: 1 cup of chocolate chips ensures tons of melty chocolate in every chunk. As an alternative of semi-sweet chocolate chips, strive utilizing darkish, milk, and even white chocolate chips. Or swap half of the chocolate chips for M&Ms like we do in these tender M&M cookie bars.
Flaky sea salt (I exploit and love this model) is a beautiful contact that offsets the sweetness, but it surely’s completely non-obligatory.
Tips on how to Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
The dough is extremely easy. Whisk the dry components collectively, then the moist, after which mix. It’s a thick, slick cookie dough:
After you put together the cookie dough, press it right into a baking pan. There’s no threat of cookie spreading with this recipe as a result of the perimeters of the pan fully include the cookies from overspreading. I like that.
One batch of those chocolate chip cookie bars suits completely right into a 9-inch sq. pan. I like utilizing this dimension of pan as a result of it yields a pleasant, manageable batch—about 16 thick bars. If you’d like a bigger batch, double the recipe and bake the bars in a 9×13-inch pan. (See recipe Notice.)
Success Tip: I wish to line my pans with parchment paper. This manner, you possibly can raise your entire cookie bar mass out after which simply lower into squares. Additionally makes for fast cleanup! I do the identical when making rice krispie treats, too.
Do NOT over-bake these bars. Err on the aspect of under-baking as a result of in any other case the cookie bars will style dry and cakey.
Can I Make Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars?
Sure! If you wish to amp up the depth of taste by utilizing browned butter, you completely can! My crew and I’ve examined it, and you’ll want to begin with an additional 2 Tablespoons of butter to make up for the moisture loss that happens throughout browning. In any other case, the bars will style dry.
Tips on how to Freeze Cookie Bars
Home made chocolate chip cookie bars freeze fantastically in order that they’re a terrific make-ahead dessert choice. Observe these directions and nobody will know they aren’t freshly baked the day you serve them:
- Bake and funky the cookie bars fully.
- Slice the bars into squares. In case you lined your baking pan with parchment paper, merely raise the slab of bars out of the pan, place onto a slicing board, and lower into squares.
- Layer the bars between sheets of parchment paper in a freezer-friendly container. The parchment paper ensures that the bars don’t stick to one another and that the tops of the cookie bars keep intact.
- Label the container with a “greatest by” date 3 months out. Cookie bars style greatest in the event that they’re frozen for simply 3 months or much less.
- Thaw bars in a single day within the fridge after which carry to room temperature earlier than serving.
Extra Cookie Bar Flavors
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Description
No mixer required and there’s no ready for cookie dough to relax with these tender & chewy chocolate chip cookie bars! Don’t over-bake these bars. Err on the aspect of under-baking as a result of in any other case the cookie bars will style dry and cakey.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C). Line a 9-inch sq. baking pan with parchment paper, leaving sufficient paper across the sides to simply raise the bars out of the pan. Put aside.
- In a big bowl, whisk the flour, baking soda, cornstarch, and salt collectively. Put aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk the melted butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar collectively till no brown sugar lumps stay. Add the egg, additional egg yolk, and vanilla extract. The combination shall be thick. Pour the moist components into the dry components and blend collectively till mixed. The dough shall be tender and slick, but thick. Fold within the chocolate chips. The chips could not keep on with the dough due to the melted butter, however do your greatest to mix them.
- Switch dough to the ready baking pan and press into an excellent layer. Flippantly sprinkle the highest with flaky sea salt, if desired. Additionally, I wish to press a couple of extra chocolate chips on prime of the dough earlier than baking; that is only for appears to be like.
- Bake for 30-34 minutes or till calmly browned on the edges. Err on the aspect of under-baking and do NOT over-bake, or the cookie bars will style slightly dry and cakey. Use a toothpick to check for doneness; if it comes out principally clear from the middle of the pan, the bars are completed.
- Permit the bars to chill within the pan set on a wire rack for at the least an hour. As soon as comparatively cool, raise the bars out of the pan utilizing the parchment and lower into squares.
- Cowl and retailer leftover bars at room temperature for as much as 1 week.
Notes
- Make Forward & Freezing Directions: You can also make the cookie dough and chill it within the fridge for as much as 3 days or freeze for as much as 3 months. Permit to return to room temperature and proceed with step 4. Baked cookie bars freeze properly for as much as 3 months. Thaw bars in a single day within the fridge and convey to room temperature earlier than serving.
- Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): 9-inch Sq. Baking Pan | Glass Mixing Bowl | Whisk | Silicone Spatula | Cooling Rack | Flaky Sea Salt
- Double in a 9×13-inch Pan: You’ll be able to double this recipe to suit right into a 9×13-inch baking pan. Bake for about 35 minutes at 350°F (177°C). Use a toothpick to check for doneness.
- Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars: If you wish to use browned butter for this recipe, begin with an additional 2 Tablespoons of butter earlier than browning it, to make up for moisture evaporation.