Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies!
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Gooey, crunchy, soft and moreish triple chocolate chip cookies that are perfect for any cookie lover!
Triple chocolate recipes
If you mention anything triple chocolate to me, I am immediately more interested and I pay attention. There is something about adding all of the chocolate you can to a bake that I adore. My no-bake triple chocolate cheesecake is one of my favourite recipes ever (THE LAYERS ARE AWESOME), but you can’t be a triple chocolate cookie. Like honestly, there is nothing better.
Well, I mean using these cookies are the base of the no-bake triple chocolate cheesecake would be incredible… maybe I will do that next time. I have so many other recipes out already of the triple chocolate variety, but a classic chocolate chip cookie is just something I can’t miss.
Triple chocolate chip cookies
Now, I have already done many a cookie recipe in my time, such as my chocolate oat cookies, and my chocolate orange cookies… but I realised I have never put up my main go-to recipe for cookies (that I bake almost twice a week these days!). Honestly, they’re cookie perfection and such an adaptable recipe.
These cookies are what I based the recipe for my chocolate orange cookies on as this recipe is utterly delicious and so versatile that it beautifully turned into them too. These cookies are perfect just out of the oven when warm and gooey, or when left to cool they are IDEAL with a glass of cold milk or a cuppa – basically, they go with anything at any time on any day.
Cookie dough
This cookie dough is similar to other recipes that I have already published. They’re designed to be a super simple go-to recipe for a simple triple chocolate cookie that you don’t need to prep much, or chill before baking.
- Butter – you can use block butter at room temperature or a baking spread
- Sugars – I use a mixture of light brown sugar and white granulated sugar for a delicious mix of flavours and a good texture
- Egg – I only use one medium egg, but one large works
- Flavour – vanilla is always optional, but I love it added in
- Cocoa – I use a strong cocoa powder for the flavour as well as the darkness of the cookies that come out
- Flour – I use plain flour to prevent too much raising agent, but you can use self raising if you leave out the other raising agents. They may just spread more
- Raising agents – a little touch of baking powder, and bicarb, to get the crinkle texture
- Salt – optional, but I genuinely believe salt is WONDERFUL in cookies
Chocolate
These cookies get the crinkle effect from the types of sugars used and the amount of chocolate used! You can always put less chocolate chips in if that takes your fancy, or even have them plain, but I am an utter chocoholic so always put in the maximum.
I often use actual chocolate chips that you can buy in the baking isle to make them super easier, but you can use chunks of a bar to get a more chocolatey pocket which is just YUM. Also, you don’t have to use all of the flavours. You can use any combination that you prefer – or an entirely other type of chocolate. You can switch up the flavourings you add as well to make chocolate orange, mint chocolate, etc.
Bake
I make the cookie dough up in my stand mixer, but a hand mixer or a spatula and a bowl does work. I then use a 5cm scoop to portion my cookies onto my lined trays. I use large trays, and only put 6 per tray to make sure that they have room to spread. I don’t chill the cookie dough myself, but if you have a tray that can’t fit in the oven yet, you can just put them in the fridge for now.
You could bake them for a couple minutes longer to get a crunchier outside, but still have a gooey outside, which I often do, or even bake them for a minute less to have the gooiest and softest cookies in the world. I realise that everyone likes their cookies done slightly differently to the next person, so these are all about the baking time.
Tips & Tricks
If you bake these for a minute longer, you can use them for a cookie sandwich and put a scoop of ice cream inside, and you end up with the most delicious dessert for a comfy night in.
I’ve updated this recipe to suit my newer, and more up to date style – this consisted of switching the flour from self raising to plain, and increasing the amount slightly! The original is still just as tasty, however, I love the newer version too. Find the original in the notes section!
These cookies will last for 5+ days at room temperature, or freeze baked for 3+ months. You can also freeze the raw cookie dough, and bake when you want freshly baked cookies.
I hope you love this recipe! Enjoy! x
Triple Chocolate Chip Crinkle Cookies!
Ingredients
- 125 g unsalted butter
- 100 g light brown sugar
- 100 g white granulated sugar
- 1 medium egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 25 g cocoa powder
- 225 g plain flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 100 g white chocolate chips
- 100 g milk chocolate chips
- 100 g dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 180C/160C Fan/375F and line two-four baking trays with parchment paper. Mine are quite large trays (40cm) to make sure the cookies don't touch!
- Mix together the butter and both sugars until light and fluffy and thoroughly combined! Using an electric mixer is far easier for this because it gets very fluffy and perfect!
- Mix in the vanilla and the egg until thoroughly combined, then mix in the cocoa powder, flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt until a thick paste/cookie dough is formed.
- Fold in the chocolate chips, and spoon the mixture onto the trays and make sure they are suitable spread out so they stay separate! (I usually fit 6-8 on each tray to be safe) I also use a 5cm cookie dropper/ice cream scoop to make them identical sizes.
- Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes until spread out perfectly crinkly. A minute or so less will be gooey, a minute or two more will be beautiful and crunchy.
- Once baked, remove from the oven and gobble them all up - don't burn yourself on the chocolate!
Notes
- TOP TIP - If they look a little too domed for you still when they're fresh out the oven, tap the tray's onto the work surface a couple of times and the cookies will flatten out a smidge - leave to cool fully on the tray still.
- They are super super gooey when warm so you could serve them with a dollop of ice cream if you like (vanilla is perfect with it) and they are an utter crowd pleaser.
- If you wanted to just use one type of chocolate you could as well, I just always stick to the same amount weight wise!
- I use this dark chocolate, this milk chocolate and this white chocolate!
- These cookie scoops are ideal for the job and have three sizes! I use the middle size for these cookies.
- These will last for 4-5 days after baking, but honestly they will be eaten before then.
- The mixture can be chilled before baking, and they can also be frozen raw or baked.
- Recipe updated August 2019
- Original recipe
- Everything is the same, apart from the original used to use 175g self raising flour instead of the 225g plain. I also used slightly less chocolate chips. Method and everything else is the same!
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Hi can I use salted butter for this recipe ???
Yes absolutely, I would just leave out any extra salt! Hope this helps! x
These are my go to cookies and I get asked for the recipe almost every time. The only change I make is that I put less sugar (60g of each), and I slightly lower the cocoa powder to compensate (20 g). I find them to be plenty sweet enough that way. They are really delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
Hi Jane Amazing recipe.. one problem my colors didn’t spread like yours in the picture.
The were like small mounds. What could’ve gone wrong?
Hiya! This could mean that you have either over worked the dough, rolled the balls too tightly, or your oven is too hot. Hope this helps! x
Hello, these look amazing!!! I wanted to ask you, when you say light brow sugar, do you mean tat soft like wet, light muscovado, or is it cane sugar that is granulated like plain white crystals, but only in light brown color like demerara? Thank you in advance for the respond, I really want to make these perfect!
Hiya! This means the soft, extremely fine sugar! Hope this helps! x
I absolutely LOVED baking these. The dough is so lovely to work with – like play dough. Super quick and easy recipe. I thought at first was rather a lot of flour but was perfect once mixed. Exactly as described – like a brownie but in a cookie with soft centre and chewy, crisp edges. It says they keep for 4-5 days but don’t think that’s going to happen! My family loved them. I think this is going to be a regular bake! What a super recipe to share!
Oh my!
I love to bake cookies but hate waiting for the dough to chill, when I found these I just knew I had to try them out and I was not disappointed!
The cookies turned out so well, they didn’t spread into each other and had perfect crisp, crackled tops!
Thank you for a fab recipe!
Hi Jane, could I make one big cookie with this recipe?
I have just made a batch of these for my child’s school bake sale tomorrow but they are way too good!! So chocolatey, chewy and crisp at the same time. I will definitely be making these again as I can imagine my husband will be crying in the morning taking them to school!! Can’t wait to try another one of your delicious recipes. Thank you.
Hi!! Dying to try this recipe it sounds out of this world. I was just wondering what temp the butter should at? Room temp/melted/etc. thanks!!!
Hello, I’m new to baking and this will be one of my first recipes. I’m a bit confused about baking powder versus bicarbonate of soda: I thought they were the same, but after a little internet search, I see the powder has added stuff in it.
If I just use a teaspoon of baking powder, will that affect the recipe much? I don’t have bicarb and would prefer not to have to go out and get some if it won’t affect the end product noticeably.
Baking powder will make your cookies puff up and taste more like cake whereas bicarbonate of soda spreads
How deep are these cookies supposed to be? I’ve made some, and they’re really tasty, but came out quite thick and brownie like. How much should they spread? Plus, my chocolate chips didn’t really melt at all!
But still delicious!
Oh my goodness, I’ve been baking for years and have never found a recipe this good ever. I’ve had so many compliments from everyone who’s tried one. So bloody good!! Thank you so much. (I made mine gluten, dairy and soy free and I’ve still been told they rival all the bakery cookies near us!)
Heyy! Thank you so much, it means a lot! So glad you enjoyed them, and thank you so much for such a lovely message! x
Everyone that has tried these cookies absolutely loves them!! so delicious. Only question is, mine don’t seem to spread our into thin cookies. What can i do to fix this?
You can add a little milk and see if that helps!
Hi Jane, I just want to say I LOVE your site and only come here when I’m looking for a delicious recipe. Have made loads of different things and they always come out perfect. Just a quick question, can you cook the dough from frozen? What temperature and time would they need? Or would you recommend defrosting in the fridge until chilled then 160oC for 10mins?
Yep you can – bake from frozen, same temp, just add 1-2 minutes baking time!
Followed the recipe exactly. Came out perfect! I keep dough balls in the freezer so I can just pop them in the oven whenever the fancy takes me. All the recipes I’ve tried on this site so far have been spot on! 😀
Made these yesterday. Safe to say these are my new favourite cookies. Xx
Ahh I love this! Thank you xx