White Chocolate Chip Cookies are chewy, thin, buttery and creamy treats, which are perfect as is or the perfect backdrop for customizing with your favorite flavors.
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Ingredients in White Chocolate Chip Cookies
- White Chocolate Chips--made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids. White chocolate must contain at least 20 percent cocoa butter. The rest of the ingredients include milk solids, sugar and lecithin, which is an emulsifier. I like to use Callebaut chips.
- Butter--adds tenderness and structure to the cookie dough. Use unsalted and room temperature.
- Granulated sugar-adds sweetness.
- Brown Sugar--adds sweetness and chew.
- Eggs--work as a binder and adds richness.
- Flour--holds all the ingredients together and determines thickness of cookies.
- Sea salt--enhances flavor.
- Baking powder--adds softness and affects a cookie's thickness.
- Baking soda--helps a cookie rise.
- Vanilla extract--adds flavor.
- Lemon Zest--adds flavor.
- Lemon juice--adds brightness and a bit of zing, especially in a rich cookie like this.
See recipe card for quantities.
How to Make These Cookies
Beat butter and sugars until lighter in color and fluffy.
Add eggs one a time and beat with butter and sugar.
Add lemon juice, lemon zest and vanilla extract. Mix well.
Stir in dry ingredients until just combined.
Put in white chocolate chips and stir.
Chill dough for at least an hour.
Bake at 350F for 10 to 12 minutes.
Too much flour or not enough can ruin your batch of cookie dough. Weighing flour is best using a kitchen scale but failing that, use the dip and sweep method to measure your flour. Pour flour into a bowl and fluff it up with a spoon. Now spoon flour into your measuring cup until slightly heaped. Then slide a butter knife or a bench scraper across the top of the measuring cup to remove the excess.
Look for a white chocolate that has a high percentage of cocoa butter solids. Callebaut is a solid choice.
White chocolate doesn't actually contain chocolate. White chocolate is made of cocoa butter, milk solids, sugar and lecithin. Sometimes white chocolate contains vanilla.
Which are the best white chocolate chips?
Variations
White chocolate is like a blank slate.
The possibilities for flavor combinations are endless. You could add freeze dried raspberries for White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies.
- Christmasy - add a ½ teaspoon of peppermint extract with the vanilla extract. Replace half of the white chocolate chips with peppermint white chocolate baking chips if you can find them. Or chop up a cup of white chocolate peppermint Hershey Kisses and add to the dough.
- Coconut Lime - Swap the lemon juice and zest for ½ teaspoon lime juice and a teaspoon of lime zest. Add one cup of sweetened shredded coconut.
- Blueberry Lemon - Add a cup of freeze-dried blueberries when you add the white chocolate chips.
- Macadamia Nut - Stir in a cup of chopped macadamia nuts with the white chocolate chips. Macadamia is a classic flavor with white chocolate.
Equipment
Hand mixer or stand mixer
Sturdy baking sheets
Parchment paper
Spatula
How to Store These Cookies
Store cookies in an airtight container for up to a week at room temperature.
Freeze dough, either baked or unbaked, for up to three months, well wrapped. Wrap in wax paper or plastic wrap and then tuck into freezer-safe container.
More White Chocolate Recipes
Copycat Panera Lemon Drop Cookies Recipe have a bit of white chocolate as do White Chocolate Raspberry Cookies.
Easy White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake is another good one.
Cookie Baking Advice
You may find these baking posts helpful, from How to Freeze Cookie Dough, Room Temperature Butter for Baking to Salted or Unsalted Butter for Cookies? to Do I Need A Cookie Scoop?, Cookie Size Chart to What Should a Beginner Bake? to Where Can I Buy Sprinkles?, Why is my sugar cookie dough too sticky? and Cookie Holidays. What is Sanding Sugar and Where Can I Buy Sprinkles might also be helpful.
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Recipe
White Chocolate Chip Cookies
White chocolate chip cookies are buttery and rich, thanks to Callebaut white chocolate chips and an extra dose of vanilla. A bit of lemon zest and juice cuts the sweetness.
Ingredients
- 2-½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¾ cup (1.5 sticks) room temperature butter
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¾ cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- two cups white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Measure the dry ingredients from flour to kosher salt in a medium bowl and set aside.
Cream room temperature butter until fluffy.
Cream the butter and sugar for 5 to 6 minutes with a stand mixer or up to ten minutes with a hand mixer or until mixture is pale and fluffy.
Add vanilla. lemon juice and zest and eggs. Mix for two more minutes or until thoroughly incorporated. - Add dry ingredients--flour through salt--and mix on low speed until just combined and you don't see any white streaks of dough. Don't overmix here, your cookies will be tough. Mix in the white chocolate chips.
Put dough in a resealable bag or cover mixing bowl with plastic wrap and chill dough for at least an hour.
When ready to bake, portion dough into scoops approximately 1-½ Tablespoons in size. I use a #40 scooper.
Bake 12 dough balls at a time on a parchment lined baking sheet, at 350 for 12 minutes. Oven temperatures vary so baking times are approximate.
Notes
Creaming the butter and sugar will take up to 10 minutes or possibly longer using a hand mixer or five to six minutes using a stand mixer.
The butter will become paler in color and fluffy once thoroughly creamed.
Don’t over bake these cookies. .
Pull the baking sheet out when the edges of the cookies have turned slightly golden. The tops of the cookies will still look a bit pale. Cookies will continue baking for a minute or two after you remove the pan from the oven.
Use a cookie scoop. I like a #40 purple scoop, which might be called an ice cream disher, for the majority of my cookies. This will give you a 2.5 inch cookie.
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Nutrition Information
Yield 38 Serving Size 1Amount Per Serving Calories 95Total Fat 3gSaturated Fat 2gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 1gCholesterol 12mgSodium 79mgCarbohydrates 15gFiber 0gSugar 13gProtein 1g
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