If you're looking for an easy treat with a nostalgic taste, how about everyone’s all-time favorite cookie but in bar form? These chocolate chip cookie bars are a fast and easy way to be everyone’s hero. This is a classic chocolate chip cookie recipe that gets put into an 8"-by-8" square pan, baked until golden on the outside and still soft on the inside, and cut into squares. No rolling or scooping little balls, no multiple sheet pans, and you can store them right in the pan you baked them in. For a crowd, serve a batch of these in a stack with other blondies and brownies.
Just like your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, these bars get loads of flavor from brown sugar, vanilla, and, of course, a whole bag of chocolate chips. A sprinkle of flaky sea salt over the top gives every bite that amazing contrast between salty and sweet. The flaky salt is optional, but if you’ve never tried this trick, trust us on this one—it’s going to blow your mind!
These bars would taste great with any number of mix ins. Swap in oats and raisins for oatmeal raisin cookie bars, or stir in white chocolate chips and toasted macadamia nuts, instead.
Cooking spray
(300 g.) all-purpose flour
baking soda
kosher salt
(2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
(215 g.) light brown sugar
(50 g.) granulated sugar
large eggs
pure vanilla extract
(340 g.) semisweet chocolate chips, from 1 (12-oz.) bag
flaky sea salt (optional)
Olivia is a food stylist, recipe developer & cookbook author living in NYC. Her work has appeared both on the pages of magazines and on billboards in Times Square. Helping people cook with more confidence is her #1 passion.
