Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

I make these the most at my house. Yeah, I’m kinda famous for them! I’ve sold hundreds of ’em at bake sales! Making cookies in bar form is just such a quick and easy way to enjoy that soft, chewy homemade goodness-squared off. Plus, baking them all in one pan means every piece has that chewy dough center. They’re incredibly quick to get ready; you can probably measure everything, mix it, and it’s into the oven inside of about 5 minutes!

Ingredient Notes

• Butter: Use good old salted butter. I haven’t tried anything else, so feel free to substitute it in if you have certain dietary restrictions.
• Chocolate Chips : NO RULES HERE. There are no rules on what type of chocolate or flavored chips you will want to use. When I initially released this recipe, I used half semisweet and half white chocolate chips. Lately, I have used semi-sweet or dark chocolate chips exclusively.
• Toffee Bits : Leave this one completely to personal preference (and I didn’t include them in the pictures for this batch either). Available next to the chocolate chips in most grocery stores, in the baking aisle, they’re getting tough to find plain anymore without chocolate covering. I don’t mix them into the dough-they tend to melt and make a mess of the texture of the cookie-so I like sprinkling them over on top right before baking.

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 270g

• 1 tsp baking soda

• 1 tbsp corn starch

• 1 tsp salt

• 3/4 cup unsalted butter melted and slightly cooled, 170g

• 1 cup light brown sugar packed. 200g

• 2/3 cup granulated sugar 133g

• 2 eggs room temperature, large

• 1 tbsp vanilla extract 15mL

• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips 200g

Directions

• Preheat your oven to 350°F. Prepare an 8×8-inch baking dish with parchment paper and melt the butter called for in the recipe in a large bowl.

• In another medium-sized bowl, mix flour, salt, baking soda, and cornstarch. Whisk them well. Leave it there.

• Place the melted butter in the big bowl. Then, add in both sugars, that’s white and brown, whisking until it is a thick paste-like mixture. Then add eggs and vanilla till well blended.

• Dunk all the dry ingredients into the wet and mix just until almost combined. Fold most of the chocolate chips in there for them to be evenly distributed.

• Transfer the dough into the prepared baking dish. Spread out evenly towards the edges of the dish. Sprinkle on top of that the reserved chocolate chips.

• Bake at 350°F for about 35 minutes. You’ll know they are done because the edges will be set and golden; also, a toothpick or skewer inserted into the center comes out mostly clean. Allow them to cool in the pan for about an hour, then cut and remove.

  Nutrition Facts

  24 servings per container
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories462
  • % Daily Value *
  • Total Fat 10g16%
    • Saturated Fat 6g30%
  • Cholesterol 29mg10%
  • Sodium 160mg7%
  • Potassium 151mg5%
  • Total Carbohydrate 82g28%
    • Dietary Fiber 3g12%
    • Sugars 18 g
  • Protein 10g20%

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  • Calcium29%
  • Iron4%