Description
These festive Christmas Chocolate Chip Cookies blend holiday nostalgia with classic cookie comfort. Rich chocolate and warm spices create a delightful treat you’ll savor during seasonal gatherings.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ cups (255 g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 ¼ cups (532 ml) all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup (150 g) granulated sugar
- ¾ cup (165 g) brown sugar, packed
- 1 tsp (5 ml) baking soda
- ½ tsp (2.5 ml) salt
- 1 tsp (5 ml) vanilla extract
- ½ cup (85 g) red and green holiday sprinkles (or festive M&Ms)
Instructions
- Preheat Preparation: Warm the oven to 350F (175C) and line baking sheets with parchment paper, creating an ideal cooking surface for festive treats.
- Dry Ingredient Fusion: Whisk flour, baking soda, and salt in a medium bowl, establishing a foundational dry mixture for the cookie dough.
- Butter Transformation: Cream butter with granulated and brown sugars in a large mixing bowl until the mixture becomes smooth, light, and exceptionally fluffy, developing the cookie’s signature tender texture.
- Wet Ingredient Integration: Blend vanilla extract and eggs into the butter-sugar mixture, ensuring thorough incorporation and a uniform, silky consistency.
- Dough Development: Fold the dry ingredient mixture into the wet ingredients using low-speed mixing, carefully maintaining the dough’s delicate structure and preventing excessive manipulation.
- Festive Embellishment: Gently fold in chocolate chips and holiday sprinkles, distributing them evenly to create a balanced flavor profile and visually appealing cookie landscape.
- Cookie Formation and Placement: Use a tablespoon or cookie scoop to create rounded dough balls, positioning them strategically on prepared baking sheets with approximately 2 inches between each cookie to allow for proper expansion.
- Baking Perfection: Slide the baking sheets into the preheated oven and bake for 9-11 minutes, watching for lightly golden edges while ensuring centers remain soft and delectable.
- Cooling Technique: Let cookies rest on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack, allowing them to cool completely and solidify their irresistible texture and flavor.
Notes
- Measure Precisely: Use exact measurements for flour, sugar, and leavening agents to ensure consistent cookie texture and prevent dense or flat results.
- Control Butter Temperature: Soften butter at room temperature for 30 minutes before mixing, creating optimal creaming that produces light, airy cookies with perfect spread.
- Avoid Overmixing Dough: Gently fold dry ingredients into wet mixture, stopping as soon as ingredients combine to maintain tender, soft cookie crumb and prevent tough texture.
- Chill for Enhanced Flavor: Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes before baking to intensify flavors, improve cookie structure, and prevent excessive spreading during baking.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 25
- Calories: 180
- Sugar: 10 g
- Sodium: 100 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 3 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 25 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 2 g
- Cholesterol: 30 mg