Perfect White Chocolate Chip Cookies made completely from scratch. Crisp on the edges, gooey in the centre, these chewy cookies are packed with white chocolate chips. There’s no chilling the dough, so these cookies are ready to eat in under an hour.
Calling all white chocolate fans 💕
If you love buttery golden cookies and smooth white chocolate, you’ll fall head over heels for these perfect White Chocolate Chip Cookies. With crisp edges and soft centres, these cookies are the ultimate treat.
There’s no need to chill the cookie dough, so these White Chocolate Chip Cookies are ready to eat in just 30 minutes.
Why you will love these cookies
- Soft and chewy: Expect buttery cookies that are soft and chewy with crispy edges.
- White chocolate: They’re bursting with white chocolate chips.
- Quick and easy: There’s no need to chill the dough, so these cookies are ready to eat in just 30 minutes.
- Make-ahead: You can easily make the cookie dough ahead of time.
Recipe testing
It’s no secret that I truly adore cookies. When I travel, I’m always looking for amazing cookie stores so I can try new flavours and textures. I recently developed a recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies after tasting a similar one in Paris late last year.
And while I’m seriously partial to a good Chocolate Chip Cookie, I realised I hadn’t shared a White Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. And as a big white chocolate fan, I was definitely up for the challenge.
These White Chocolate Chip Cookies come together quickly by creaming the butter and sugar. Because we are using softened butter and not melted butter, there is no need to chill the dough. It also means the cookies have delightfully chewy edges.
Filled to the brim with white chocolate chips and sprinkled with sea salt, these buttery cookies are soft and sweet. If you love white chocolate, you’ll be munching on these delicious cookies for days.
For something even more indulgent, try my White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookies.
Ingredients
You only need a handful of pantry staples to make these chewy White Chocolate Chip Cookies. Here are all the ingredients you’ll need to make a batch:
- Unsalted butter: If you choose to use salted butter, skip the salt added to the cookie dough. And make sure your butter is at room temperature.
- Brown sugar: Brown sugar adds flavour and moisture. You can use light or dark brown sugar.
- Caster sugar: Or granulated sugar.
- Vanilla extract: For flavour.
- Egg: To help bind the cookie dough and give it the perfect chewiness.
- Plain flour: Or all purpose flour.
- Baking soda: For lift.
- White chocolate chips: This recipe is extremely versatile – you can use whatever chocolate chips you fancy. Swap the white chocolate chips for milk chocolate chips, peanut butter or butterscotch chips. Or you could use white chocolate chunks if you prefer more gooey chocolate pockets!
- Sea salt
How to make White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Here’s a brief overview of how to make White Chocolate Cookies at home. For ease, it is recommended that you use a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment or a hand mixer. Detailed instructions are included in the recipe card below.
- In a large bowl, use an electric mixer on medium speed to combine butter and sugars.
- Add vanilla and egg and mix just to combine.
- Add flour and baking soda and mix until a soft cookie dough forms. Finally, stir through chocolate chips.
- Scoop cookie dough and roll into balls using the palm of your hands.
- Place on prepared trays and bake until golden. Sprinkle warm cookies with sea salt.
Recipe tips
- Make sure your butter is at room temperature: It shouldn’t be too soft or wet, but not fridge cold. If it’s too soft, your cookies will spread too much in the oven.
- Use both caster sugar and brown sugar: For best results, use both sugars. Caster sugar (or you can use granulated sugar) adds sweetness and helps form crispy edges, while brown sugar gives a more caramel-like flavour and extra chewiness.
- Try not to overbake your cookies: Watch the bake time. Cookies firm up as they cool, so it’s ok to take them out of the oven even when they look slightly underdone – especially if you prefer a soft and chewy cookie.
- Add a few extra chocolate chips: While the cookies are warm, add a few extra white chocolate chips on the tops of the cookies.
Storing leftovers
Keep leftover cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Make ahead: You can make this cookie dough ahead of time. Simply cover and keep in the fridge, then bring the dough back to room temperature before rolling and baking. Alternatively, you can roll the cookie dough balls and then freeze them. Let them thaw at room temperature for 30 minutes before baking as per the recipe.
Frequently asked questions
No. These cookies will naturally flatten out in the oven when baking. Keep them in balls and leave room on your baking tray for them to spread out.
No. You do not need to chill this cookie dough. You can roll the cookie dough and bake them straight away. However, you can chill the dough in the fridge if you want to bake them at a later time.
Absolutely! You can use chopped chocolate, chocolate chunks, pieces or chips – whatever you prefer.
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White Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe
Buttery white chocolate chip cookies made from scratch.
Ingredients
- 115 grams (1 stick or 1/2 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 90 grams (1/2 cup) brown sugar
- 50 grams (1/4 cup) caster sugar or granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- 210 grams (1 and 1/2 cups) plain flour or all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 150 grams (1 cup) white chocolate chips, plus extra for decorating
- Sea salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F) standard / 160 C (320 F) fan-forced. Line two baking trays or cookie sheets with baking or parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the butter and sugars and beat using an electric beater on medium speed for a minute or two until smooth and creamy.
- Add vanilla and egg and beat until combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl. Add flour and baking soda and beat again on low speed just until a soft cookie dough forms. Add chocolate chips and stir.
- Scoop out cookie dough (roughly 1.5 tablespoons each) into small balls and place on baking trays, leaving room for the cookies to spread. Place in oven for 10-11 minutes or until golden brown on the edges.
- While the cookies are still warm, add a few extra chocolate chips on top. Leave cookies to cool for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Sprinkle cookies with sea salt.
Notes
White chocolate chips: This recipe is extremely versatile – you can use whatever chocolate chips you fancy. Swap the white chocolate chips for milk chocolate chips, peanut butter or butterscotch chips.
Storage: Keep leftover cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
Make ahead: You can make this cookie dough ahead of time. Simply cover and keep in the fridge, then bring the dough back to room temperature before rolling and baking. Alternatively, you can roll the cookie dough into balls and then freeze them. Let them thaw at room temperature for 30 minutes before baking as per recipe.
Liz Robinson says
The cookies tasted amazing however they were much flatter than yours when they came out – any tips?
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Liz! So glad you enjoyed them! Yes that can happen for a number of reasons, such as your butter being too soft (it shouldn’t be too squishy or melted), not adding enough flour (if you didn’t, try measuring the flour with a kitchen scale), putting your cookie dough on a hot baking tray or using all white sugar (instead of a mix of caster and brown). Next time, do one tester. If it’s too flat, pop your cookie dough in the fridge for 30 minutes and try again. Hope that helps a little!
Aicha arbi says
Hi .i was wondering if we can skip the brown sugar and not add it to the mix. Will that make the cookies any different?
Jessica Holmes says
Hi, yes brown sugar adds taste, colour and texture. If you don’t want to add it, I recommend replacing it with caster or granulated sugar.
Anna says
I loved this recipe and it was good to make during quarantine. They tasted and looked amazing. Thank you for the recipe.
Jessica Holmes says
Aw so glad you enjoyed them Anna!!
Anna C says
Hi Jess, fab recipe, go down a storm every time i bake these cookies! Just wondering, can I freeze the cookies once baked and cooled? Assuming I can but, just checking in case you don’t think this wise.
I generally batch bake and freeze a lot of another time (saves having to bake each time 🤭).
Thank you,
A
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Anna! Glad you like them! You can but it can be ever better to freeze the cookie dough and then bake them fresh when needed? Nothing like a fresh out of the oven cookie!
Laura says
Such a good recipe! Cookies look at taste amazing!
Jessica Holmes says
Aw so glad you enjoyed them Laura!
Lynsey says
I just made these but they do not look anything like the photo. Should the balls of dough not be flattened with a fork first? They do taste lovely, just don’t look like yours.
Lynsey says
I just realised I missed an ingredient! I was putting all the ingredients away and then I saw the …brown sugar! Oops! That might be where we went wrong.
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Lynsey, the cookies should spread out naturally in the oven when baked. Definitely missing out on the sugar can have an effect so add that in next time. The main reason cookies don’t spread in the oven is adding too much flour – if you didn’t this time, try measuring the flour by weight to ensure accuracy. If your butter wasn’t softened or you chilled the dough at all, this can also effect the cookies ability to spread. Hope that helps!
Lucy says
Are these cookies more gooey or would you say they’re chewy?
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Lucy, I’d say chewy!
Sasha says
They look soooo good! No need for store-bough cookies anymore!
Jessica Holmes says
So glad you like them!
Maurii says
What chocolate should I use? Compound or couverture? Before I tried making chocolate chip cookies with compound and it bacame flat and very oily. I’m a little bit scared with using compound chocolate, but corverture is a little expensive. What did you use? Or what do you recommend?
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Mauril, great question. I think the answer is actually somewhere in between! I always recommend using the best quality chocolate you can for the best results. In saying that, couverture chocolate is probably not needed in a recipe like this. You can use regular eating chocolate or regular store bought chocolate chips. If you’ve found a brand or type of chocolate hasn’t worked well for you in the past, try a different one. Personally, my rule of thumb is to not use any chocolate that I wouldn’t enjoy eating straight from the packet. Hope that helps!
jo says
hi there. I don’t have plain flour can I use selfraising please
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Jo, I haven’t tried myself so I’m not sure! If you do try it, let me know how it goes!
Greta says
I have self-raising flour as well, did it work fine?
June phillips says
Never made biscuits before..Will definitely make them again. Delicious!
Jessica Holmes says
So glad you enjoyed them June!
Zoe says
Fantastic easy recipe to make with the kids or in a hurry. Delicious cookies after baking too! Many thanks
Jessica Holmes says
Love that, so glad you enjoyed them Zoe!
Catherine says
If I add dried cherry should I change anything?
Jessica Holmes says
No should be ok – sounds lovely!
Happy mum says
Great cookies – the whole family gave them a thumbs up. “Should I make these again?” Everyone: “YEEEESSSS!”
Jessica Holmes says
Love that!!
Fatma says
if you melt the butter and put in less flour, will they become softer?
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Fatma, typically using melted butter does make a softer cookie, but it usually requires chilling the cookie dough and often more flour to make up for the spreading. I recommend following the recipe as is or trying my Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies if you want to use melted butter.
Blake says
My cookies came out bread/cake-like. I followed the recipe exactly as stated and even after three trials of redos and changing things up, I got the same results.
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Blake, sorry to hear that! I don’t quite understand why your cookies would come out bread-like and its hard to offer any solutions without knowing what you changed in your subsequent attempts. But it sounds like you might have added a little too much flour – always use a scale to measure your dry ingredients if you can.
Adriana says
Not bad… I reduced the flour a bit based on my preferences, but I think I’d prefer having the salt in the cookie instead of on top. It’s a nice cookie otherwise!
Jessica Holmes says
Glad you enjoyed it Adriana!