Greatest Gentle & Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

These further gentle 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 a bit of one thing further.

I initially printed this recipe in 2016 and have since added new images, a video tutorial, useful success ideas, and extra flavors.

Style testers have all the time 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 in the event you 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 home made gentle and chewy chocolate chip cookies, solely simpler to organize. A lazy (I name it “drained”) gal’s cookie if you’ll. 😉

Why You’ll Love These Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

• Dense and buttery
• Additional chewy and further gentle
• Identical 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 a bit of one thing further
• Nonetheless gentle and chewy on days 2 and three (in the event that they final that lengthy!)

Key Substances & Why You Want Every:

If you happen to’ve tried my beloved chewy chocolate chip cookies, you’re already aware of the convenience 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. Bear in mind the essential distinction between baking powder and baking soda?
• Cornstarch: Cornstarch offers the cookie bars that extremely gentle consistency everyone knows and love. Plus, it helps hold 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 gentle and chewy cookie bar as a result of there’s extra moisture in brown sugar. I barely lowered 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 all the pieces collectively and 1 further egg yolk provides richness and chewiness. You’ll lose plenty of moisture by skipping that further egg yolk.
• Vanilla Extract: Pure vanilla extract provides taste. In case you have any home made vanilla extract, use that!
• Chocolate Chips: 1 cup of chocolate chips ensures tons of melty chocolate in every chew. As an alternative of semi-sweet chocolate chips, attempt utilizing darkish, milk, and even white chocolate chips. Or swap half of the chocolate chips for M&Ms like we do in these gentle M&M cookie bars.

Flaky sea salt (I exploit and love this model) is a beautiful contact that offsets the sweetness, however it’s completely optionally available.

The best way 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 really like that.

One batch of those chocolate chip cookie bars suits completely right into a 9-inch sq. pan. I really 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 fashion, you’ll be able to elevate 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.

The best way to Freeze Cookie Bars

Selfmade chocolate chip cookie bars freeze superbly in order that they’re an ideal make-ahead dessert choice. Observe these directions and nobody will know they aren’t freshly baked the day you serve them:

1. Bake and funky the cookie bars fully.
2. Slice the bars into squares. If you happen to lined your baking pan with parchment paper, merely elevate the slab of bars out of the pan, place onto a chopping board, and lower into squares.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Thaw bars in a single day within the fridge after which carry to room temperature earlier than serving.

Extra Cookie Bar Flavors

And don’t miss my recipe for chocolate chip cookie bark!

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