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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Best cookies ever!!! Deliciously smug on the inside and crispy on the outside.
The best triple choc cookies I have ever made! Absolutely delish and I will be making them all the time
Hi,
Love these cookies, made them a few times now!
If I wanted to freeze the raw cookie dough, how long should bake time be adjusted to?
Thanks,
Natalie
I defrost mine then just cook them for 10 mins
ADD ANOTHER EGG TO THE DOUGH.
recipe is too dry and crumbly without 2 eggs.
once recipe was altered, they turned out beautiful and chewy.
This recipe has been tested and baked hundreds of times with success with one egg (like many many other cookies on the blog). Some eggs can vary in size, but usually the cookie dough being too dry is that it hasn’t been beaten enough and been able to combine. x
These are such a big hit in our house I make them at least three times a week yes three times a week !!
I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, but the cookies come out really dry. I think there is too much flour in this recipe when I compare it to others. Is there a typo??
Hey! The recipe is definitely correct as it is. Dry cookies usually just mean they are over baked x
The butter should be cold or soft? Thanks 🙏🏼
Soft will be much easier to cream with the sugar
I bought 2x 1kg big tubs of “Best for Baking” butter from a supermarket, just whip it round in the bowl and the friction warms it up enough to soften and mix perfectly with the sugar to form a paste
These cookies are absolutely delicious. I doubled the recipe to make 32 cookies and they were an absolute hit. I will definitely be making these again very soon.
Would love to tell you how these cookies taste when fully cooled- we never got that far! Omg – love the updated version of these cookies! I may need to shop again tomorrow… be great still warm with a scoop of vanilla. We didn’t get round to that either – gobbled off the tray whilst still soft and hot x
Can you help my cookie dough doesn’t have the cookie dough texture it’s like a cake mixture. Can you tell me if I did something wrong??
Did you definitely add the bicarbonate soda and baking powder I forgot to add that one time and they turned out like cakes x
best cookies ever! they are delicious! they’re so goey and soft its amazing! my family said that it was the best cookie they have ever had! (: would really recommend! <3
Hi Jane! I haven’t got any light brown sugar in 🙁 only demerara sugar and granulated would it work if I used just granulated sugar or demerara sugar instead of light brown? If not I will wait till I get some light brown sugar! Haha thank you x
Hiya! Yes, this should be fine! Hope this helps! x
Can you chill the mixture the day before and cook after? Will the raising agent still work?
If I wanted to bake these in an air fryer (if that’s possible?) How long should I do this for and what temperature? These are my households favourite cookies!
Hiya! Yes absolutely, take. look at my air fryer cookie recipe! Hope this helps! x
these are awesome, i made about 65 for a crowd and everyone loved them so much
I love these cookies, my whole family love them! If I wanted to make them half the size as “cookie bites” how long would I bake them for?
I LOVE these, but my partner said they were ‘too chocolatey’?! I don’t know how that’s possible, in my mind it is only a good thing. However, if I removed the cocoa powder and added an extra 50g plain flour would that maintain the texture?
Hiya! Take a look at my Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe! Hope this helps! x