So you want a chocolate chip cookie, but don’t want to whip up a whooooole batch of chocolate chip cookies just for yourself? You’ve come to the right place. I present to you the best single serve chocolate chip cookie recipe you’ll ever have!
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So you want a chocolate chip cookie, but don’t want to whip up a whooooole batch of chocolate chip cookies just for yourself? You’ve come to the right place. I present to you the best single serve chocolate chip cookie recipe you’ll ever have!
Single Serve Chocolate Chip Cookie
Let me set the scene for you. It’s 9 pm. You’re home alone. An intense craving for a gooey, warm chocolate chip cookie hits and you just can’t shake it. But…you don’t want to make a whole batch of chocolate chip cookies. You just want one. Or two. That’s where this ooey gooey, browned butter, gooey in the middle, crunchy on the outside individual chocolate chip cookie comes in.
What are single serve chocolate chip cookies?
This small batch chocolate chip cookie recipe makes two perfect chocolate chip cookies, so you can satisfy your cravings without having a whole bunch of extra cookies laying around when you really want just one! Plus, they’re made in one bowl and come together in under a half hour so they’re the perfect midnight snack to whip up.
Ingredients for this individual chocolate chip cookie
We made this individual chocolate chip cookie recipe with all the same ingredients you’ll find in our favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Unsalted Butter: Using unsalted butter means that you can fully control the amount of salt going into your cookies and also ensures that it browns evenly. You’ll brown the butter for a nutty, toasty deep flavor as the base for your cookies!
Sugar: Chocolate chip cookies should always be made with a mixture of brown and white sugar
Eggs: Eggs will bind your cookies together. A single egg yolk will gives these cookies their soft, chewy, not too cakey texture.
Vanilla Extract: Do NOT leave out the vanilla.
Flour: All purpose flour is our flour of choice for these chewy cookies. It creates a tender but hearty crumb. Make sure when you are measuring your flour you measure it carefully using a spoon to aerate the flour. We recommend adding the first cup in and then adding the remaining 3/4 cup a little at a time. Browned butter evaporates as it browns, meaning that the amount of butter can vary depending on how long you browned it for which can lead to less liquid in your cookie dough. See the directions for more guidance on this!
Chocolate Chips: When it comes to chocolate chip cookies, your chocolate can make or break your cookie. Splurge on a high quality semi sweet or dark chocolate. Milk chocolate is child’s play. So are the store brand chocolate chips. Go for a good bar, chocolate disks, or a high quality chunk.
Salt: Baked goods NEED salt. Without it they’re just cloyingly sweet. Salt adds that perfectly nuanced salty-sweet flavor that pushes a baked good from good to great.
Tips for making singe serve chocolate chip cookies
Everyone has their own secrets to making the perfect chocolate chip cookies, but I swear by these. Get your notebooks out.
Make sure you measure your ingredients carefully: This single serve chocolate chip cookie majorly scales down your normal cookie recipe, so there is not much room for error. If you’re off by a teaspoon in a full recipe it’s not going to make that much of a difference, but in a batch this small it can make a huge difference!
Only mix until just combined: Repeat after me, “over mixing ruins everything.” I know it can be fun to whisk away your dough as an excuse to eat more cookie dough, but do not do it. You will get dry, tough, sad cookies.
Under bake them: When in doubt UNDER bake. The cookies will continue to bake as they cool. Plus, no one ever complained about a gooey center 🙂
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So you want a chocolate chip cookie, but don’t want to whip up a whooooole batch of chocolate chip cookies just for yourself? You’ve come to the right place. I present to you the best single serve chocolate chip cookie recipe you’ll ever have!
So you want a chocolate chip cookie, but don’t want to whip up a whooooole batch of chocolate chip cookies just for yourself? You’ve come to the right place. I present to you the best single serve chocolate chip cookie recipe you’ll ever have!
Brown the butter over medium heat, stirring constantly until the butter begins to foam and turns a golden brown, emitting a nutty aroma. Take butter off the heat and allow to cool.
In a small mixing bowl combine the butter and the sugars and mix well. Add the egg yolk, and vanilla extract and mix until smooth and homogenous.
Add the flour, salt and baking soda. Mix until just combined and no streaks of flour remain. Last, fold in the chocolate. Do not over mix.
Shape into 2 huge cookies or 4 medium size cookies and place on your prepared cookie sheet.
Bake for 11 minutes*, or until the edges are just golden brown and the centers have puffed up but are still gooey.
Hi Liel! These are brown butter chocolate chip cookies, so no need to change anything for the butter! You can just omit the chocolate chips, but I’d 2 more teaspoons of flours to help give the dough some height without the chocolate chips in there!
Hi Holly! One cookie would be HUGE, but you could do it hahah. I think the recipe card must be glitching, because its 2 huge cookies or. 4 medium sized cookies!!
It was alright. It probably would have been good but I messed up the recipe slightly and put like double the salt in by mistake and too much butter. Then I needed to put more flour in. So I could have made around 4 cookies but I still made 2 so it took about 20 mins. Do reccomend the recipe just actually Follow it unlike me.
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Is there a way to incorporate brown butter into this recipe and potentially remove chocolate chips?
Hi Liel! These are brown butter chocolate chip cookies, so no need to change anything for the butter! You can just omit the chocolate chips, but I’d 2 more teaspoons of flours to help give the dough some height without the chocolate chips in there!
So I keep seeing ppl say it makes 2-4 cookies mine made 15… Lol. They will prolly be medium smallish cookies!!! Tysmmm for the recipe
How small did you make them? These would be so mini to get 15 out of it but as long as you liked them that’s all that matters 🙂
This recipe is delightful…perfect cookie
The recipe says 2 huge cookies or 2 medium cookies so I’m confused. Can you just make one cookie?
yes ofc you can!! it can just be one giant cookie
You can but I cook it for 15minutes
Hi Holly! One cookie would be HUGE, but you could do it hahah. I think the recipe card must be glitching, because its 2 huge cookies or. 4 medium sized cookies!!
It was alright. It probably would have been good but I messed up the recipe slightly and put like double the salt in by mistake and too much butter. Then I needed to put more flour in. So I could have made around 4 cookies but I still made 2 so it took about 20 mins. Do reccomend the recipe just actually Follow it unlike me.