Cut cooled cookies out with a circular cutter for smaller, more uniform sandwiches. Or just use the cookies au naturale. Either way, still good.

O my goodness you are giving me such cravings...btw my husband and I just made cake balls for the first time last week and they so much fun! Thanks!

These sure look yummy! I wish I had all of the ingredients RIGHT NOW so I can bake up a quick batch. I think we know what I'm doing tomorrow :)

yum!

Delicious! Now I'm totally craving chocolate chip cookies! :)~

These look so very delicious... I may have to bake cookies this week!

just had some break and bake cookies myself...too bad they're all gone now, because this post made me want more!

Weight Watchers appreciates you in my blogroll.
{shaking head and looking for ingredients} Those look amazing!

I really wish I had some of these right now. I have had a craving for some home baked cookies lately. I love to make them and store bought just doesn't cut it.

Wouldn't it be easier if you just made them for me? Not everyone owns a circular cookie cutter ;)

Love your blog! Great pics of everything!

YUM!!!! I'm going to have to "make these for the husband and kiddo" (wink wink)

These photos are so beautiful!

Oh my gosh! I was so thinking about making chocolate chip cookies all day!!!!

Yummy! Please check out my blog at http://bitemebaker.blogspot.com I'm only 13

I love chocolate chip cookies. Even if I'm allergic to chocolate!

mmmmm!! chocolate chips cookies are the one and only recipe i can make from memory. my mom and i have spent many years perfecting our recipe. we find that a teaspoon of almond extract gives the cookies a really special taste and that using mini chocolate chips instead of regular gives a great chocolate to cookie ratio!

Man they look good - especially in the ice-cream sandwich. What a great idea!

These cookies look like the ones I used to make when I was in junior high! They look great (as does everything you make).

Fabulous! I actually just made a fresh batch of Coconut Ice Cream today....after reading this, I may take it for a test drive sandwiched in between some Double Chocolate Death cookies this week! OMG!!!!

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I make a ton of different typw of cookies and bars. But, when I asked my fiance what he wanted me to bake him... he replied plain chocoalte chip cookies. And I replied... Um, I don't have a recipe for those :)

Wow!! This looks like it totally beats my chocolate chip cookie recipe! I just may have to try this to find out :) Yummmm!

oooohhhhhhh me like! Although, have to confess, I buy store bought chocolate chip cookies to answer my craving. Oh well, I'm pretty sure nothing beats home-baked ones. :-)

Ugh I'm about to go ruin my diet now and bake some!!! YUMMY!

Kinda sad that it's now cheaper to buy the premade cookie dough in the giant tubs from Sam's. They have Pillsbury and Toll House. And love being able to bake a whole bunch or half a dozen on demand.

I love your photos by the way. Thanks for sharing!

With this post, you have found a devout fan in my husband. I think he's drooling - I guess I should make these soon!

Your an evil and amazing lady! I want them so badly! :)

I love the ghiradelli chips...if you get the milk chocolate ones they are slightly larger in size and then add some macadamia nuts....those are my go to cookies as of late!

OK so now in this 112 degree heat I am going to have to make some. I use toll house chips...they are the best. Yes eat them hot out of the oven with a cold glass of milk till you are sick! That is the only way! YUM~~~ An American classic!

Ugh. It looks way too delicious. x.x This means trouble for my diet!

I've never sprinkled more chips on top during cooking! That's a great idea. So is using the cutter for a more uniform shape! Yum yum yum!

I am IN LOVE with your food blog!
My favorite are the Father's Day Happy Meals!

Nothing better than a warm chocolate chip cookie right out of the oven and a cup of tea! Delicious!

You are a brilliant woman. No joke, I'm a 26 year old man. I read your blog. A lot. I'm beyond hungry everytime I read it. Keep making good looking food!

I love chocolate chip cookies! Especially when they're warm and gooey. In fact, once a cookie goes hard and crunchy... I don't want it anymore. I don't know why, I just like soft cookies and nothing else.

So I had to figure out how to keep an entire batch of cookies soft for longer than a couple of hours. Turns out, if you store the cookies in an airtight container with a slice of bread, they'll stay soft. If the cookies last long enough, the bread will eventually go hard. Replace it and the cookies will continue staying soft!

It's like a miracle! Soft cookies forever!

Oh man, I was just checking out you new post before heading off to bed..Geez, I will be dreaming of those Chocolate cookies!! Yum!

Mmmmm

They look great, I'm with you on eating until you feel sick!!! Thereis no other way :)

Kelly xxx

Yummy...I want to see a bad picture on your site...just for fun! haha. Pics look fabulous!

I cant believe you've never made scratch cookies before!! Hope these will make you make them everyday :P They look soooo good!

it is winter here in New Zealand and the other day at a friends place her daughter made choc chip cookies and then we toasted mashmellows and stuck them between the fresh warm cookies - Yum!

Bakarella,
I hesitate to give the teacher advice b/c I am a lowly beginner to your exalted goddess status ;-)!
I am going to throw out my two cents anyway (my husband wouldn't be surprised!!)
When I make cookie dough, I double it and sometimes even triple it. I cook what I need and separate the rest into balls on saran wrap. I cover it in saran wrap and roll it into a log and then pop it in the freezer. Then, when I have a craving for quick bake cookies, I am ready to go!!

Wow. These looks delicious.
I would like to try making them, but I have only ever baked those cookies where everything came in a bag and I only have to add egg and butter. Hence I have a few questions.

How much (weight) is a cup of butter?

When you say a cup of brown sugar, do I pack in the sugar tightly or just scoop the sugar as it is?

Thanks!

love your blog

Great! Pregnant & great looking cookies! So much for keeping the calories down!

I love all of those chocolate chip cookie scraps.

dear bakerella...you never disappoint...always great posts & i love your suggested baking equipment... i was so happy to purchase the deep mixing bowls...thanks!

Yummers. Those would sure go well with my coffee this morning.

My daughter had the chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches at her wedding reception. Boy was that a lot of cookies to make. Then the ice cream was added right before we served them to the guest.

Mmmmm.... it (usually) doesn't get any better than home made chocolate chip cookies!!!

Oh my gosh... I need an ice cream cookie sandwich! Yum!

so mouthwatering too early in the morning!!!

You can't go wrong any way you do chocolate chip cookies... :<} Now I'm craving some and it's only 8:45 in the morning!

Oh how delicious these look!!! :)

Hello I'm a young Italian mother, excuse my English school but I wanted to compliment you for the delights you share with us. Thanks good day

These look so yummy! Now i am craving chocolate chip cookies and i'm at work. :( I wish i could scoot out of the office to make them.

No need to gobble up those ice cream cookie sandwiches all at once. They freeze like a dream and no need to thaw before eating. Frozen chocolate chip cookies are 100% as good as fresh! Wrap tightly in plastic wrap...

Ellen

There is nothing better than home made chocolate chip cookies. One thing my girls and I like to do is bake the dough in mimi muffin pans. We call them "nookies" :)

I have to say I've tried using a cookie scoop for the batter and I can never get all of the batter to come out if the scoop. Tips anyone?

I don't know if you actually read the 750 comments you get on each of your posts, but...

We did a taste test around our apartment building once. Ghiridelli chips actually came in SECOND! We found that people preferred both the Toll House chips AND the Toll House recipe printed on the bag of chocolate chips.

We tried the chips alone, and several chips in several different recipes. Ghiridelli only won on appearance of the chip. It does LOOK more hearty, smooth, and delicious, but looks can be decieving! Interesting, huh?! We thought that, surely such an "upper class" chip would win out, but it didn't!

You should do THAT experiment and post it!

3 words bakerella... MILK CHOCOLATE CHIPS! you will never go back to semi-sweet again. i am serious! let us know if youy try.

AAAAAACK!!! I have NO CHIPS and the car's in the shop!!!

it's a cruel world.

Glad you did these. I was looking for a new chocolate chip recipe this weekend, and first (as always) went to your site but found none. Now I know where to look next time. And the ice cream chipwiches look awesome!

It's funny, just this past Saturday I bought some chocolate chips so I could make some cookies with my son today. Then I got up this morning and found a link to your yummy post in my inbox! I tried your recipe this morning, and they are delicious :) Thank you!

Those look so good! You're making the fact that college dorms have no kitchens absolute torture!

I'll be trying these as soon as I get home :D

Oh those look good. Especially the ones made into ice cream sandwiches. Yummy! Simple is truly amazing in this case.

Ghiradelli chocolate chips are the best!

YUM!! I'm always up for trying a new chocolate chip cookie recipe; I have yet to discover the perfect one :o) This one looks great, of course, so I'll give it a shot when I have some free time this week!

O Bakerella, you always seem to please me. I'm off to the store to buy some extra rich cho. chips for these cookies.

I can't believe it. I completely want some chocolate chip cookies now! BTW I tried making cake pops this weekend and I failed :(

I can just feel those melted chips dripping all over my fingers with my first bite......yummy!!!

Have you ever tried or heard of Guittard chocolate chips. I was introduced to this when we moved to WA. Makes chocolate chip cookies even better. Thanks for the recipe.

I just made chocolate chip cookies, too, after not making them for years. The ingredients I used are quite similar, but have a different personality. Funny, how just a few small differences to a recipe produce such different results. Love your idea of sandwiching ice cream in there, though in that case I'd eat the cookies twice as fast :)

Oh Bakerella!! As always, your pictures look good enough to eat!

-Jenniffer
http://cupadeecakes.blogspot.com

Funny you would decide to make these. I have been craving these and was upset that I left the store and forgot to buy the morsels. But now that you have thrown them in my face lol egging me on. I know I must go out in the rain and get some of them chips lol

Cute cute cute cuteeee pictures! I'm sure the cookies are great too!

I really need to send you a few dutch girl cookies I think my peanut butter pinwheels will satisfy any craving....they are so yummy.

You're making me want to quit my diet!!!

Oh dea goodness those cookies look devine!

Delicious!!

I love using cookies to make ice cream sandwiches.

I might have to make a batch of cookies to do just that with the frozen yogurt I made yesterday (though not chocolate... those flavors wouldn't work quite so well). We're out of cookies, so sweets must be made!

Oh my God!!! I'm on a strict diet to loose the 60 pounds I gained while pregnant, and you are seriously making it difficult for me to keep going!!! LOL

I'll sure try them as soon as I'm done!

I love the ice cream sandwhiches with cookies! My friend and I made some cookies last week with some JUMBO chocolate chips we found at the store. OH MY GOODNESS those jumbo chips were so amazing. (They are bigger than the normal chip, but smaller than a Hershey kiss.)I hadn't ever seen tehm before, but if you see them definitely try them.

Love that Cakespy article as ccc's are my favorite!
Cute, fun, ice cream sammies here. I've been going crazy with my ice cream maker this summer. I haven't made sandwiches yet and will have to get on it.

I take it you like crisy chocolate chip cookies. If you up the flour by half a cup to a cup you can get softer & cakier chocolate chip cookies. Yum.

So Cute!!!

Hi, thanks for the sending the
cookies are delicius
I HAVE COOK FOR MY KIDS THIS END WEEK

My fave choc chip cookie recipe is the one on the side of the Blue Bonnett butter box. Fantastic and simple -- very similar to yours!

Gulp! Those looks so delicious! What do you use for the background of your photos? I noticed all of them have a bright solid background...is it paper or a photo background?

The Chocolate Chip Cookie/Ice Cream Sandwich looks amazing!!! Now...how to put that in one's mouth....without taking it apart or making a mess. That would be quite the feat.

yummy!

Um yes please! Your cookies look great!

These look serously amazing!!!!

MOUTHWATERING!!!

gotta have it

Ahh! I'm drooling!

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Those look so good. I am so craving these...

Right now I both LOOOOVE you ... and hate you (but just a little bit).

Chocolate chips are the best. Love them! Thanks for sharing. My kids love to help make them, they especially love when I make ice cream sandwiches out of them.

I'm off to the store, right now. You've flung a craving on me.

They look seriously WONDERFUL!!
I think we might just try them tonight!

i would have to say that you are geniously evil! my favorite kind of person! ;)

hummmm... just happened to have all this stuff on hand. In the oven as we speak!! (for reals...) haha!

Those look great... Chocolate chip cookies are my FAVORITE and if you use butter flavored crisco instead of the butter they come out amazingly chewy, yet have a nice crispy outside and stay that way...

Just thought I would share!

Love the idea of using an ice cream scoop to make each cookie the same size! Great tip! Speaking of ice cream, would you happen to know where I can purchase an old fashioned ice cream cone stand?

looks yummy! Photographs are amazing! Great work...an inspiration.

Thanks for this! especially the pic with the dough...had me drooling!
I can't wait to make them.
(I just made the burger cupcake and cookie fries for hubby's office for his birthday. A HUGE hit - but before anyone ate they all whipped out their blackberries and took pictures ! ha! thanks!

ahh! i love this blog!! it keeps getting sweeter and sweeter everyday! i cant resist!

i love your sight for food and pics. So i know that you are great.

But for some reason today i was truly blown away with the cookie pics. the cookies - perfect. the lighting - perfect and the background blue - perfect.

WOW!!

Hi there! I regularly visit your blog to ohhh and ahhhh at all the fantastic creations! You totally rock. I have a blog, www.thehappychickadee.blogspot.com related to my little girls shop- www.happychickadee.com
and we would love for you to be a guest blogger! If you have any interest, you can email me at amber @ happychickadee.com or comment on our blog. I posted one a while back about your cake balls. Thanks for being awesome!
Amber

I was just thinking about making chocolate chip cookies too! Except you actually made some and I was too lazy to wait for the butter to become room temp. Your cookies looks so yummy that I have to make some tomorrow!

I have a bag of chips in my cupboard that is now calling my name. My kids and I love to make cookie ice cream sandwiches. Our favorite is peanutbutter cookies with chocolate ice cream. Now I'm thinking we could roll the edges in mini chocolate chips. Yum!

Ice cream scoop! Why did I never think of that!

And yes, until you are sick. That is my way

Oh my gosh, now I want cookies so badly. This site is not fair!!! LOL

Your site is amazing and you have inspired me to make cake pops. I have made them several times and they have always been a hit.

Keep on baking

You are so bad for posting this. OF COURSE I am craving them now. Thank goodness my husband was at the store tonight, and I phoned him to get some last minute ingredients before he left. He'll be very thankful.

I love your gorgeous blog! Few time ago I'd tried one of yours recipes - the lemon bars. They were great. You can see them here: http://lume-brando.blogspot.com/2009/07/bake-disse-ela.html.
Unfortunatelly, my blog is written in portuguese...
Thanks for your sweet inspiration.
Teresa Rebelo from Oporto - Portugal

I want one ! I want one ! I want one ! And maybe a few ice cream sandwiches... Seriously, your "basic" cookies look delicious ! And what is great is that I just got a KitchenAid for my birthday ! Yeah !

Love the photos, I've not yet seen the mention of multiple chocolates for the cookies. Our favorites are dark, milk and white chocolate chip cookies....Yummy 3 times the sweet fix!

Mmm ... Now I'm craving some cookies. Guess that's what I'll do with my kids today!

Thanks for sharing your recipe (and those great pictures too!),

Cindy

YUMMY!!!! I'm ready to make some now!!

oh my god!! this is making me want to bake me some right away!! i just might do it!

I made these last night! Best chocolate chip cookies I have EVER had!!! Thanks for the recipe :)

I had to go home and make these last night. They were AWESOME! :) I got 40 cookies out of this recipe (that is even after I sampled the dough a few hundred times lol) They are super yummy and super easy. Thanks for keeping the awesome recipes coming! :)

Looks like it's going to be a chocolate chip cookie day for me now that I've read this post! YUMMMMMM! :)

Mmm! Yes, I tend to "drop" a few of those deliciously warm and gooey cookies myself! THE BEST! Great pics, as usual!

Mmmmm...delish!

Wow, yours hung around long enough to make ice cream sandwiches with them?! I baked a batch of chocolate chip on Saturday and they about disappeared instantly! Of course, that could be b/c DH walked in as I was pulling the first batch out of the oven (he's a cookie monster!)....

Those look like the most delicious chocolate chip cookies EVER!

These look so good! I can't wait to try these out!

I use the box mix with the Ghiradelli chips and have needed a scratch recipe, thanks for that, and I see you used my favorite chips. Have you tried silicone bakeware? My muffin tins always end up burning the bottoms after a year or so and my hubby hates paper cups. Thoughts?

made them, ate them, bought the t-shirt!!!! thanx for the reminder of just how wonderful a warm cchip cookie can be!!!!
cathy

i just made them and they have to be some of the best cookies ive had in a while! your fan and ga neighbor cindy!

I think that yours could kick the butt of the Chipwich any day of the week, Bakerella! Nice presentation with the sprinkles on the side too. As you can tell by the timeline I've been cookie-obsessed lately, and once again you've deliciously indulged my obsessions! :-)

I always look forward to your weekly posts! They always get me in the mood to bake...inspiring and fun! I did have a question, though and since I don't have a Google account I'll have to ask "anonymously". If I don't have a stand mixer, like you do, will one of those hand mixers do the trick in this recipe? Thank you.

yummooooo!!! LOVE the ice cream sandwich idea!

You're near me here in GA...can I just come and clean up the crumbs for ya??!?!! :o) ...no, really...
YumEEE!

My kids love chocolate chip cookies warm and I feel so mean when I don't let them eat more than four at a time... especially when i eat a ton of them after they go to bed!

Yum! I think I will have to make those with buttercream icing in the middle...my favorite!

Oh yum! I am recently having some troubles with my favorite jeans not fitting anymore. I'm pretty sure it's due to fresh baked chocolate chip cookies! Or maybe it's because of the bazillions of cupcakes I've been making! You're a bad influence!

you - just when I think, hey! she's just like me, a simple cookie recipe will sometimes do - you then pull out the sprinkles and the cutters and the glorious photography stuff
man, I love it!

These look fantastic! I'm totally craving cookies now! I guess that's a hint to get in the kitchen....

OMG looks sooooooooo good. How fun:)

I love your blog! My sister just told me about it recently and it's great. I am hooked :)

I adore brown sugar too!! Have you ever had Hagan Daaz "Five Ingredient" Brown Sugar Icecream before?! It is TO DIE FOR.
Sooooo yummy!! It's a must try for brown sugar lovers :)

An amazing chocolate chip cookie recipe is the Nestle Toll House recipe. Honestly one of the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever made!

Wow... first you post the most perfect looking chocolate chip cookies then you add ice cream too them!

Those ice cream sandwiches look GOOD!

Oh don't use Lilly White flour for CCC. Makes them too soft. Try good old gold medal or one without soft winter wheat.

I was hungry for cookies before I saw this and now I'm really drooling.

Dear Bakerella,

I love this blog.

Sincerely,
Liz Fischer

Your photos are yummilicious!!!

These look absolutely perfect!

Those cookies are making my mouth water.
Oh my...they look incredible.

oooo yummy, you make me want to go in my kitchen and bake up a batch right now!

you are such a gorgeous and wonderful person..thanks for all your precious sharing..love all your fantastic decorations^^

wish i could have some of the cookies right now! so delightful!

These little gems are heaven to chocoholic like me... just love to munch them while working on my project : ) Thanks for sharing the recipe.

Cheers
Olivia

They look extremely heavenly...

I just can't take my eyes of them...

made these for my kickball team last night, i mixed milk and white chocolate chips b.c. i didn't have enough of either to make a full batch. these are the moistest cookies i have ever made, and for the first time ever even the girls on my team came back for a few more cookies! awesome recipe thanks!

You just can't beat Chocolate Chip Cookies.I am craving some now!! By the way, I like the cookie tower with ice cream and sprinkles :)

i'm not sure if you'll see my comment because you always get so many, your photography and baking skills are amazing!

those ice cream sandwiches look so GOOD!

try this chocolate chip recipe, it's chocolate chip cookies with a twist. it has coconut, milk chocolate chips and rice krispies in them mmmmm :

http://sandrasaunders.blogspot.com/2009/04/chocolate-chip-oatmeal-cookies.html

I don't know if these look really delicious or if you're just an amazingly fantastic photographer!! Oh, I think it's both!!

Those cookie sandwiches look awesome!!

Sues

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Yummy, great stuff!

OH, those ice cream sandwhiches with the sprinkles are adorable.

Looks just like the middle of summer!

Thanks,
Kary

seriously, your photos are so good!

Homemade chocolate chip cookies are the best!!! We make them so much that my mom can get them in the oven in under 8 minutes! I will definetely try this recipe! Yum!!!

Mmmmm!

your post made me make cookies, temptress!

=)
thanks for the recipe
-Nicole

You have me CRAVING choc chip cookies now. They look so scrumpscious. Unfortunately at the moment I can't chew, oral surgery, so I'm left with unsatisfied cravings. But...time to plan out some homemade choc chip cookies for when I can eat them. Yes!

yummm, i want my self some milk and cookies!

Hey! I came across your cake balls and I was so inspired by them! Lovely blog btw:D

Just checking out your site for the first time! I saw you area a Cake Art fan......I LOVE that place! Just picked up some powder food coloring there! I grew up in that neck of the woods! You must be a neighbor! Can't wait to make some of your amazing recipes!

Is it wrong that I can actually taste those photos?

I'm officially inspired. Making choc chip cookies tomorrow :)

milk & cookies... a match made in heaven

I need a good, no, great chocolate chip cookie recipe. I have to say, for something that looks so easy, chocolate chip cookies have to be the hardest recipe to get right! You rock!

luv,
Heather

THANK YOU BAKERELLA! This is the first scratch cookie recipe I've successfully made. You are blessing woman!

Wow... very nice. Love the ice cream sandwiches. I am lazy and make mine with graham crackers. I bet my boys would love them with homemade chocolate chip cookies.

You rock! You are so funny and informative. I love baking and baked sweet goods. I am so homesick as I live in the Middle East! Chocolate chip cookies are my very favorite!! Thanks again for this site!

I made these cookies over the weekend...couldn't figure out why mine didn't look like the pictures, even though my wonderful hubby tried to assure me that they did. Half way through the batch, I realized I left out the last 1/4 cup of flour!! At that point, I decided to make bar cookies with the rest of the dough...I spread the dough in a round cake pan (lightly sprayed with PAM), and baked until the top was uniformly golden brown. Delish! My mom would make bar chocolate chip cookies instead of drop cookies when we all wanted choc chip cookies but didn't have the patience for drop cookies...it's still my go-to speed cookie baking method!

I will definitely try this recipe again, and be sure to add all of the flour! Thanks for the recipe!

I shouldn't have looked :o Now I want to eat cookies!

hi! i tried this recipe yesterday and mine tasted too salty =(

i added a heap of brown sugar and they tasted better <3

My mom makes fabulous chocolate chip cookies. A few tricks she uses that make a huge difference is butter flavored crisco (instead of butter). She also says when she uses milk chocolate chips she puts in the amount of salt the recipe calls for. If she uses semi-sweet chocolate chips she reduces the amount of salt a little. Hope this help. I LOVE your site. You are super amazing. Thanks for all your great shares. :) Terri Moore

this is just delicious 8D)b like really delicious =D

I wonder why mine got soft after an hour (or two) on the wire rack D:

P/S: would totally try your pound cake next >.<

These are SO GOOD! I have made 2 batches in the past week and everyone that has tasted them LOVES them. Even my husband - who typically only likes chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven - liked the one that he ate the day after I baked them. Big thumbs up! I will have to be careful about baking them often, as I tended to grab two or three every time I passed by the jar. :)

Just had a dental student tell me about your website and was doing a little browsing - when I go to the trouble to make homemade chocolate chip cookies I stick to the recipe on the Nestle bag EXCEPT - I use the butter flavor Crisco AND I refrigerate the batter just a bit and roll each cookie in regular granulated sugar before cooking - gives it a nice bakery shop look and great taste and texture.