These gooey chocolate chip cookies are absolutely perfect! They have soft chewy edges and a gooey center. The chocolate chunks and chocolate chips are melty and delicious. This is truly the best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever!
First, brown butter. Add butter to a skillet over low medium heat. Continue stirring for about 5 to 7 minutes, until butter has turned a golden color.
Then, pour butter into a bowl. Scrape the brown bits at the bottom of the skillet into the bowl. Place bowl in freezer while you gather the other ingredients. Line baking pan with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda and sea salt. Set aside.
Remove brown butter from freezer. In a mixing bowl, add brown butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Stir to combine.
Then, add in vanilla extract and eggs. Stir to combine.
Pour wet mixture into the dry mixture. Stir to combine.
Fold in chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. I recommend using both if possible.
Use ice cream scoop to scoop balls of dough onto lined baking pan. Then, chill these balls of dough for 1 hour in fridge.
After 1 hour, remove pan from fridge. Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake cookies for 8 to 9 minutes or until edges are just barely golden.
Finally, remove cookies from oven. Allow them to cool on pan for 5 to 10 minutes before gently transferring to a cooling rack.
Notes
The brown butter adds a ton of flavor to these cookies! If only using melted butter, melt only 2 sticks of butter. Browning the butter leads to some of the moisture evaporating, thus needing more butter to begin with.
The brown butter is very hot. Place it in a bowl in the freezer for at least 5 to 10 minutes to cool it down. Otherwise, it will curdle the eggs when mixed together.
Both gluten free 1 to 1 flour and all purpose flour can be used.
Chilling the dough is not optional. These cookies will spread too thin otherwise.
Feel free to chill the dough for up to 72 hours if needed. The longer it chills, the more deep the flavor becomes.
Bake cookies only until edges are barely set. They are meant to be gooey!
Store cookies at room temperature for up to 4 days.