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Our 21 Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ready your ovens—these are the all-time best versions of the world's most classic, crowd-pleasing cookie.
Toll House chocolate chip cookies on two plates.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Kat Boytsova
  • A plate of chocolate chip cookies being served with glasses of milk.
    Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Micah Marie Morton
    1/21

    Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Crunchy cookie edges + chewy centers with gooey chocolate = chocolate chip cookie end game.

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  • Vegan Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies on a surface with one broken apart revealing melty chips.
    Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich
    2/21

    Vegan Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Nondairy butter and a flax “egg” make these easy cookies deliciously vegan—be sure to buy dairy-free chocolate and vegan sugar to keep them that way.

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  • Cookie bars made with semisweet chocolate chips.
    Photo by Elizabeth Coetzee, Food Styling by Mira Evnine
    3/21

    Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

    Chocolate chip cookies without the time spent forming each one? Yes, please.

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  • Chocolate chip cookies on a serving platter.
    Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich
    4/21

    Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Brown butter lends a subtle toffee-like flavor that makes these brown butter chocolate chip cookies far more enticing than your everyday version.

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  • Chocolate chip cookies made with brown rice flour stacked on top of parchment paper.
    Photo by Travis Rainey, Food Styling by Rebecca Jurkevich
    5/21

    Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

    A special blend of wheat-free flours makes these crispy-edged, chewy-centered cookies as good as any other version on this list (and, honestly, maybe better).

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  • Toll House chocolate chip cookies on two plates.
    Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Kat Boytsova
    6/21

    Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies

    The most iconic chocolate chip cookie is crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, and loaded with melty morsels of chocolate chips throughout.

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  • A largeformat cinnamonchocolate chunk cookie in a white skillet with 3 scoops of ice cream on top.
    Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Prop Styling by Astrid Chastka, Food Styling by Anna Hampton
    7/21

    Cinnamon–Chocolate Chunk Skillet Cookie

    This giant skillet cookie, spiked with cinnamon, is perfect for sharing...or not.

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  • A stack of espresso chocolate sabls against a bright pink background.
    Photo by Davide Luciano
    8/21

    Espresso Chocolate Sablés

    These espresso-infused dark chocolate–chunk shortbread cookies come from master baker Dorie Greenspan and include a tip for getting perfectly round cookies every time.

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  • A stack of four double chocolate espresso cookies.
    Photo by Sarah Shatz
    11/21

    Double Chocolate Espresso Cookies

    These cookies are crisp on the edges and have a chewy middle strewn with pockets of soft chocolate.

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    Ditte Isager
    12/21

    Chocolate-Oatmeal Moon Pies

    These over-the-top cookie sandwiches are packed with chocolate chips, pecans, oats, and dried cherries. A marshmallow fluff filling and finishing chocolate drizzle take the decadence to level 10.

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  • Chocolate chip madeleines in a baking mold.
    Jenny Zarins
    19/21

    Chocolate Chip Madeleines

    OK, so strictly speaking, they're little cakes rather than cookies. But does that make them any less delicious?

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    Linda Pugliese, food styling by Anna Hampton
    20/21

    Crunchy Chocolate Chunk Cookies

    The crunch in these cookies comes from Valrhona chocolate pearls, but you could easily swap them out for malted milk balls instead.

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Sheela Prakash is a food and wine writer and recipe developer, as well as a registered dietitian. A longtime editor at Kitchn, she has also been on staff at Epicurious and Food52. Her writing and recipes can be found in numerous online and print publications, including Serious Eats, Tasting Table, ... Read More
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