Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

The classic Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe is the gold standard of homemade cookies.

Buttery, chewy, and loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chips, this is the same back-of-the-bag recipe that’s been passed down through generations.

Do you remember standing on a chair in your family's kitchen, spatula in hand, helping to stir the dough and sneaking more than a few chips? I do.

If you’re looking for the original chocolate chip cookie recipe with tips for baking them perfectly every time, you’re in the right place.

How to Make Original Nestle Tollhouse Chocolate Cookies

• Cream room temperature butter and sugars together until light and fluffy in a large mixing bowl using a hand mixer or stand mixer.
• Add eggs one at a time and vanilla extract.
• Stir in dry ingredients (baking soda, salt and all purpose flour) and combine until no white streaks remain.
• Pour in chocolate chips and stir until incorporated into the dough.
• Portion dough into balls and bake at 375° for 9 to 11 minutes. I like to use a #40 Winco for portioning cookie dough.

If you're a chocolate chip cookie fan, you might like this Chocolate Chip Cookie with Vanilla Pudding Recipe or Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies or Eggless Chocolate Chip Cookies--this one a reader favorite. Or, my son's favorite, Chipless Cookies.

Because few things in life rival ready to bake cookie dough, check out my guide to freezing baked cookies and cookie dough.

Ingredients

• All-purpose flour
• Baking soda
• Salt
• Butter
• Granulated sugar
• Brown sugar
• Vanilla extract
• Eggs
• Nestle Tollhouse semi-sweet chocolate chips

See recipe card for ingredient amounts.

A big complaint I hear from bakers experienced and knew about this recipe is that the cookies turn out flat. Here are 7 reasons your chocolate chip cookies might be turning out flat.

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Yield: 36

Nestle Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

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The original Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe is a timeless classic with crispy on the edges, a soft and chewy center and loaded with melty chocolate chips. It’s the go-to cookie that started it all and still satisfies every sweet craving.

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 12 minutes

Additional Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 32 minutes

Ingredients

• 1 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 12-ounce bag Nestle Toll House semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Measure dry ingredients and put in a small bowl. Set aside.
2. in the bowl of stand mixer or a large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugars until fluffy and pale in color about three to four minutes. Stop to scrape down the sides of the bowl and the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula at least once.
3. Add vanilla extract
4. Add eggs one at a time and mix until well combined.
5. Add dry ingredients to butter sugar mixture.
6. Stir dry ingredients into dough until just combined.
7. Add semi-sweet chocolate chips and stir to combine.
8. Preheat oven to 350F°.
9. Using a cookie scoop, portion 12 balls of dough onto a parchment lined baking sheet.
10. Bake 11 to 12 minutes or until cookies are golden brown
11. Let rest on baking sheet for two to three minutes before moving to a cooling rack.
12. Eat!

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Nutrition Information

Yield 36 Serving Size 1 cookie
Amount Per Serving Calories 154Total Fat 8gSaturated Fat 5gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 3gCholesterol 24mgSodium 77mgCarbohydrates 20gFiber 1gSugar 13gProtein 2g

Nutrition information is estimate because I am not a registered dietician.

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Jennifer's Memories of Baking with Her Mom

Nestle Chocolate Chip Cookies, recipe conveniently printed on the back of the yellow bag, are my first memory of baking with my mom. 

I remember standing on a chair, spatula in hand, an apron hanging from my waist, in the small kitchen of our house on Williams Air Force Base in Arizona.

I was six or seven. 

On the counter in front of me was a bowl of freshly mixed Nestle Toll House cookie dough studded with semi-sweet chocolate chips.

My mom was at my side warning me about the dangers of eating too much raw cookie dough.

Nestle Toll House Cookies were also the first cookies I made for my dad by myself. I was probably ten. 

I remember having a friend over for one of these baking sessions.

Judging from the immense size and shape of the cookie dough she unceremoniously plopped in uneven rows on the cookie sheet, my friend had clearly never baked before. 

I exchanged a look with my mother over my friend's head. I think we were both horrified and a bit saddened that my friend didn't know what she was doing. 

But, we didn't make her feel bad. We just showed her how we portioned out and arranged dough and into the oven the tray went.