Everyone thinks the secret to the best chocolate chip cookies is the chocolate. It’s not.

These brown butter chocolate chip cookies are soft, chewy, and packed with rich nutty flavor, melty chocolate chunks, and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.

If you’ve never made chocolate chip cookies with brown butter, you’re in for a treat. Browning the butter adds a rich, nutty flavor that takes classic chocolate chip cookies to a whole new level. Pair that with melty chocolate chunks and a sprinkle of flaky sea salt, and you have a bakery-worthy cookie that’s crisp around the edges, perfectly chewy in the center, and impossible to stop eating.

The only extra step is browning the butter, but I promise it’s worth every minute. Once you’ve tasted the deep caramel-like flavor it adds, you’ll never want to make chocolate chip cookies any other way.

Why Brown the Butter?

Flavor, flavor, and FLAVOR! Browning the butter removes some of the water content and toasts the milk solids, creating those deep caramel, toffee-like notes that make these cookies taste extra special.

Ingredients You’ll Need

Just a handful of pantry staples come together to create cookies that taste like they came straight from a bakery. Browning the butter is the secret ingredient that makes all the difference.

• Butter: Browning the butter creates a rich, nutty flavor that gives these cookies their signature taste.
• Flour: Provides structure while keeping the cookies tender.
• Baking Soda: Helps the cookies rise and spread perfectly.
• Salt: Balances the sweetness and enhances the brown butter flavor.
• Brown Sugar: Adds moisture, chewiness, and caramel notes.
• Sugar: Creates crisp edges and balances the brown sugar.
• Vanilla: Rounds out the flavors with warm sweetness.
• Eggs: Bind the dough together and create a soft texture.
• Chocolate Baking Chunks: Melt into big pools of chocolate throughout every cookie.

How to Make Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

Browning the butter adds one extra step, but it

These s’mores cookies are everything I love about a summer campfire wrapped up in one ridiculously good cookie. They’re packed with graham crackers, melty chocolate, and gooey marshmallows tucked right inside.

I’m a perfectly golden, never burned marshmallow girl. If my marshmallow catches fire, we’re starting over. I didn’t wait all year for camping season to eat charcoal. My family grew up camping. It’s what we did in the summer, in the backyard, girls camp and boys camp, and for spring break.

My mom is an amazing camper and can bust out the most amazing Dutch oven, campfire, reflector oven and even tin foil dinners. But the real star of the show was always dessert. Her peach cobbler in a Dutch oven is still one of the best things ever about my childhood, but right up there with it is a good s’more. Nowadays I’m not super into s’mores but put it in a cookie and I’m allllll over it!

Ingredients You’ll Need

These easy s’mores cookies are made with all the classic campfire ingredients—graham crackers, chocolate, and gooey marshmallows—plus a few baking staples for the perfect soft and chewy texture.

• Flour: Creates the structure and chewy texture of the cookies.
• Crushed Graham Crackers: Add that classic s’mores flavor and a hint of honey sweetness.
• Baking Soda: Helps the cookies spread and bake up soft.
• Baking Powder: Gives the cookies a little lift and tenderness.
• Cornstarch: Keeps the cookies extra soft and chewy.
• Salt: Balances the sweetness and enhances all the flavors.
• Unsalted Butter: Adds rich flavor and creates tender cookies.
• Brown Sugar: Adds moisture and a subtle caramel flavor.
• Granulated Sugar: Sweetens the cookies and helps create lightly crisp edges.
• Egg: Binds the ingredients together and adds richness.
• Vanilla: Enhances the chocolate and graham cracker flavors.
• Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips: Add melty chocolate in every bite.
• Hershey’s Bar: Delivers that classic campfire s’mores chocolate flavor.
• Large Marshmallows: Create a gooey, melty center inside each cookie.
• Whole Graham Crackers: Form the perfect crunchy base and complete the s’mores experience.

If you love thick chocolate chip cookies with gooey centers and crisp edges, this recipe is for you. Inspired by the famous Levain Bakery cookies, these oversized, bakery-style cookies are tall, rich, and require two hands to eat without the trip to NYC.

After standing in line at Levain and later discovering similar jumbo cookies closer to home, I knew I had to recreate them in my own kitchen minus the nuts (no thank you!) and specialty ingredients. After extensive testing (and a lot of cookies), this recipe delivers everything people love about Levain-style cookies: height, chew, and total indulgence made with everyday ingredients.

What Makes These Cookies So Thick?

These cookies stay thick because of a few key techniques that prevent them from spreading too much in the oven.

First, the ratio of ingredients is designed to support a tall cookie. The dough contains plenty of flour and just the right amount of fat, which gives the cookies structure while still keeping them soft and gooey in the center. I’ll explain more below.

Second, the recipe uses both baking soda and baking powder. Baking soda reacts with the brown sugar to create lift, while baking powder gives the cookies an extra boost so they rise instead of spreading flat.

Another important factor is the large dough balls. Each cookie is made with about 6 ounces of dough, which allows the outside to set while the inside stays thick and soft.

Finally, chilling the dough helps solidify the butter before baking. This slows down how quickly the cookies spread in the oven, helping them keep their tall, bakery-style shape.

The result is exactly what we’re going for: thick, gooey chocolate chip cookies with crisp edges and soft centers just like the famous bakery versions.

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With the perfect mix of chewy and crisp textures, these White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies are loaded with white chocolate chips and cranberries. I fell in love with this combination at the first bite. And, I think you will, too!

Just one search will show you that I’ve got dozens of cookie recipes on this site. What can I say? I just love cookies! But, this take on oatmeal cookies is one of my husband Sean’s all-time favorites. It takes my classic cranberry chocolate chip cookies and gives them a twist that’s hard to beat, with sweet white chocolate and oats for that signature chewy texture.

White Chocolate Cranberry Oatmeal Cookies

I find the combination of white chocolate and cranberries totally irresistible, because the tangy cranberries balances out the ultra sweet white chocolate. But, add both of them to a soft, chewy oatmeal cookie? It’s a magical experience.

I owe my cousin, Hope, a big thank you for suggesting this flavor combination many years ago. This recipe was a hit from the first time I made it. If you find oatmeal cookies with raisins or chocolate chips boring, then this white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookie recipe just might be the one for you.

Ingredients & Substitutions

Dry Ingredients – I use flour and old

You all loved our no bake peanut butter oat cups, so you’re going to flip for this monster cookie version. They’re rich, chocolatey, loaded with peanut butter, oats, and colorful M&M’s, and the best part is there’s absolutely no baking required.

These no-bake chocolate peanut butter oat cups are easy to make, fun to share, and perfect for everything from after school snacks to late-night sweet cravings.

We were blown away by how crazy VIRAL our original peanut butter oat cups went a few weeks ago, but the truth is, there’s another version that we love even more!

Years ago we loved taking our kids to Lagoon amusement park in Utah and I’d always throw in some fun little monster m&m energy bites. Well, the more we made them the more we experimented! This is hands down our family’s preferred recipe!

Why You’ll Love These Monster Cookie Oat Cups

You can tell just by looking at them that you’re going to love these chocolate peanut butter oat cups! Let me tell you why…

• No bake, no oven required
• Chewy monster cookie texture and flavor
• Colorful and kid-friendly
• Easy, so easy kids can make them!
• No added refined sugar
• Made with pantry ingredients
• High-protein dessert

Ingredients You’ll Need

These no bake