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 they’re 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 crispy edges and soft centres, these cookies are the ultimate treat.
Served warm, with a cold glass of milk, these White Chocolate Chip Cookies are my new fave thing.
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 recipe for White Chocolate Chip Cookies. 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. This also means the cookies have delightful chewy edges – my fave.
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.
HOW TO MAKE WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES FROM SCRATCH
- To start, you need to use room temperature butter. It shouldn’t be too soft or wet, but not fridge cold. This will make is easier to blend with the sugar.
- This recipe calls for both caster sugar and brown sugar. The caster sugar (or you can use granulated sugar) helps to add sweetness and crispy edges, while the brown sugar lends itself to a more caramel-like flavour and extra chewiness.
- A little extra vanilla extract is added for flavour and an egg to bind.
- Once you add the flour and baking soda, it’s time to mix in a whole cup of white chocolate chips – the more the merrier.
- The cookies are then baked in the oven until golden. Sprinkle with sea salt and enjoy while still a little warm.
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White Chocolate Chip Cookies
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 egg and vanilla and beat until combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl. Add flour and baking soda and beat again 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.
Bianca says
Amazing!
I use this as a base cookie recipe for all my cookies now. Love it!
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Jessica Holmes says
Love hearing that Bianca!
Winter says
Amazing
Ange says
Delicious. First time making them so easy and really fast. I did split the dough and put in chocolate chips and the other white chocolate chips. Hubby like chocolate. Both delicious. Thank you.
Jessica Holmes says
So happy to hear that Ange! And great idea to mix up the choc chips!
Lola says
Absolutely gorgeous!! Amazing Flavour! Great Texture! Amazing Recipe!
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Jessica Holmes says
Yay! Love hearing that!
Charlotte Braithwaite says
So tasty
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Jessica Holmes says
Yay!
Madison says
Do you think I could add green food coloring to the dough for a St. Patrick’s Day feel?
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Madison, I’ve actually never tried adding food colouring to cookie dough before! But I think it would work if you used food gel (regular food colouring might add too much liquid). If you do try it, let me know how it goes!
Danielle says
Could I freeze this dough and bake from frozen please?
Jessica Holmes says
Yes you can! You might want to let the cookie dough thaw a little before baking so the cookies still spread out.
Smokey says
This is super easy to cook and super yummy!
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Jessica Holmes says
So glad you enjoyed them!
Rachel says
Hi,
What brown sugar are you using for this recipe, dark or light?
I really want to bake them but not sure which sugar to use.
Thanks!
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Rachel, either is ok! Here in Australia our brown sugar is just called brown sugar, but I think it’s most similar to light brown sugar. Hope that helps!
Joan says
The seal salt really brings out the flavour. Took 15mins to cook.
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Jessica Holmes says
Glad you like them!
Nina says
Looks Amazing! Do you think I could add some chopped frozen blueberries?
Jessica Holmes says
I haven’t tried but sounds nice. I’ve made a Blueberry Cookie using dried blueberries and it’s just lovely!
Mia says
These cookies turned out really well! very easy and convenient to make, doesn’t take much time at all and are some of my favourite cookies now.
I will be using this recipe again on the future!! I ended up with 15 cookies, a bonus one 🤩
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Jessica Holmes says
Love hearing that Mia!
Ashley says
Amazing!! Super easy I added more butter that was on the recipe. I only use 1/2 cup of sugar and I didn’t add the salt ! It still come out amazing! Definitely use this recipe again !!
Jessica Holmes says
Thanks for the feedback Ashley!
Manish says
this recipe is so easy to follow and fun to do! i’ve made these twice for the family once with the white chocolate and once again with semi sweet chocolate and they turned out delicious. however for my oven i had them baking for 13 minutes. i enjoyed making these so much!!
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Jessica Holmes says
Love hearing that Manish!
Amanda King says
So easy to make n taste fantastic, I added some carMilk Cadbury Philadelphia cream cheese n joined them yum yum yum
Jessica Holmes says
Sounds delish Amanda!