White chocolate chip cookies are richly flavored with cocoa powder for chewy chocolate centers and are topped with plenty of white chocolate chips! These are like inside out chocolate chip cookies and are so good!
White Chocolate Chip Cookies
By this point, I think all of you know how I feel about Chocolate Chip Cookies (I think they’re the worst 😉). I made them all the time when I was a kid and make them even more now that I have this sweet little baking blog as the best excuse for cookie baking ever.
But when I was younger, my mom would occasionally buy a bag of white chocolate chips and my sister and I would follow the recipe on the back of the bag for white chocolate chip cookies or “inside out chocolate chip cookies”, and as cool as an inside out cookie sounded, I was always so disappointed with the outcome.
The white chocolate chip cookies that we would make would always come out too dry and too sweet (you’ll rarely hear me say this), so when I started recipe developing I knew that I wanted to avoid that as much as possible.
To make today’s white chocolate chip cookies, we’re going to be using my double chocolate chip cookies as a base. These cookies are one of my favorites, they’ve received rave reviews for how chocolaty and fudgy they are, and I knew they would be the perfect base for today’s recipe.
Made with melted butter, they can be made by hand with no mixer required. As much as I love my KitchenAid, it’s nice to have a low maintenance, no mixer recipe every now and then.
Tips for Making White Chocolate Chip Cookies
This white chocolate chip cookie recipe is pretty straightforward and simple, so I don’t have very many tips to share, but I do have some tips that apply to most of my cookies for making yours look pretty enough for a bakery.
- My favorite cookie scoop is a 1 ½ tablespoon-sized scoop, but I almost always overfill it for bigger, bakery-style cookies. I recommend using a heaping scoop to make your cookies about 2-2 ½ tablespoons in size.
- You can just drop your cookies straight on the baking pan and bake them like that, but I prefer to gently roll mine into semi-smooth balls before sliding them into the oven. This will make them look neater and prettier… as an example, take a look at the cookie on the spatula in the photo below compared to the one beside and the one above it. The one on the spatula was dropped, the others were slightly rolled and I think that they look neater and just overall prettier.
- Reserve some of your white chocolate chips. Once the cookies have finished baking, gently press a few of the chips into the tops of each cookie, they’ll look nice and clean and pretty.
Enjoy!
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White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter melted and cooled at least 10-15 minutes (226g)
- 1 ¼ cup brown sugar packed (250g)
- ½ cup sugar (100g)
- 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk room temperature
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (263g)
- ½ cup natural cocoa powder (50g)
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch cornflour in UK
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ cup white chocolate chips (255g) plus additional for topping, if desired
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine your melted, cooled butter, and sugars. Stir until well-combined.
- Add egg and egg yolk, and vanilla extract and stir well.
- In a separate, medium-sized bowl, whisk together dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, and baking soda).
- Gradually add dry ingredients to wet, stirring well until ingredients are well incorporated.
- Stir in white chocolate chips. Cover dough and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350F and prepare a baking sheet by lining with parchment paper.
- Drop cookie dough by rounded 1 ½ Tbsp-sized scoops onto cookie sheet (for uniform, round cookies, roll dough gently between your palms to make round balls). Gently form the dough so that it is slightly higher than it is wide (think egg-shaped rather than round).
- Bake on 350F (177C) for about 10 minutes (cookies should still seem slightly underbaked in centers, this is OK, allow them to cool completely on pan and they will finish cooking but still be soft)
- If desired, gently press additional white chocolate chips into the tops of cookies shortly after removing from the oven.
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered an estimate only. Actual nutritional content will vary based upon brands used, measuring methods, cooking method, portion sizes, and more.
Kris Peoples
Way too sweet. Hard to taste the chocolate because of all the sugar. The one redeeming quality was the chewiness. Perfect chewiness, but too sweet. (Followed recipe to the t)
Sam
I’m sorry you didn’t like the cookies. 🙁
Sejal
I only have salted butter. Would it be ok if I just left the 3/4 tsp salt out of the recipe or cut this? Thanks!
Sam
Yes that will be fine! Or reduce the salt in the recipe to just 1/4 teaspoon.
Joy
Hey Sam! So I attempted this cookies and I failed😰 my husband said it tasted like chalk. Lol. Idk what happened. I followed the instructions thoroughly…
I still have some of the dough left. Is it salvageable? Can I add more butter? What can I do to moisten the cookies?? Please advise. Thanks!
Sugar Spun Run
Oh no, Joy! I am so sorry to hear this. From your description, my best guess would be that you over measured your flour. This is one of the most common mistakes in baking so I have created a guide that can be used as a reference next time. Unfortunately, there isn’t anything you can do at this time to save the dough. 🙁
Nora A
This is a really fun recipe! One thing that was hard was that the dough was really hard to mix.
Sam
I’m glad you enjoyed, Nora! 🙂
Pastry_Reb
These turned out great! I decided to make these on a whim and came across this recipe. My family loved them and said I’ll have to keep the recipe. Thanks for this simple yet delicious recipe!
Sugar Spun Run
I am so glad that they were a hit with your family, Reb! Thank you for trying my recipe and for commenting. 🙂
Sarah
I can’t stop eating these cookies! We used softened butter instead of melted and didn’t chill the cookie dough for 30 minutes as directed but they came out perfect! We added a whole 10 oz bag of white chocolate chips.
Sugar Spun Run
I am so glad that you enjoyed them, Sarah! Thank you for commenting. 🙂
Alina
Why did my cookies come out dry? I baked them for 10 minutes at 350 and did everything like the recipe said – I made them smaller – they didn’t spread at all and look mounded – what happened?
Sugar Spun Run
Oh no, Alina! I am so sorry that you experienced an issue with this recipe. From the sound of it, you may have over measured your flour. This is a common mistake in baking so I have created a post on how to properly measure flour that can be used as a reference for next time. Regardless, I do hope that they tasted delicious. 🙂
Tiffany Days
Can I use coconut sugar with brown sugar instead of white I’m trying to cut out eating sugar?
Sugar Spun Run
Hi, Tiffany! I haven’t tried it so unfortunately, I can not advise. If you try it, I’d love to know how it works for you. 🙂
Tiffany Days
Thanks, I have some regular sugar left so I’ll use that but when I use coconut sugar I will let you know how it turns out. I’m trying to cut down on sugar in my food & drinks.
Sugar Spun Run
Yes, I’d love to know how it turns out for you, Tiffany! 🙂
JPC
Why are my cookies coming out dry? I followed the recipe except I used butter flavored crisco plus 2 tbsp of water.
Sam
I’m so sorry they are coming out dry. Unfortunately those substitutions are probably causing the issue, especially the water. I hope that helps. 🙂
Jerrissa Charleyboy
Do I have chill it for 30 minutes?
Can I just bake them
Sugar Spun Run
Hello, Jerrissa! The chilling helps the cookies from spreading. I recommend it, but it is not required. Enjoy! 🙂
Megan Wilson
Me and my boyfriend just made these and they’re in the oven baking now! It was a super simple recipe to follow. If my man can follow it then I know it’s a simple recipe. I’ve slowly been teaching him how to cook/bake different things and we’ve spent a lot of time bonding while we’re in the kitchen together so thank you for sharing this recipe with the world because it created a romantic atmosphere for me and my spouse to have sort of a dessert dinner date at home. We really enjoyed baking these cookies together! Thank you!
Liz Jack
Delicious cookies…. moist and yummy!
Sugar Spun Run
Thank you, Liz! I am so happy that you liked them! White Chocolate, one of my faves!
Carol
I made these cookies today and I think they’re delicious! Having read a few other recipe reviews where the cookies turned out dry, I took to heart your direction to let the cookies finish cooking out of the oven on the cookie sheet. They turned out perfectly. I cut the sugar by half as I typically do with cookie recipes, and also I find white chocolate chips to be rather sweet. It was such an easy, no hassle recipe. Thank you!
Sam
Thank you so much, Carol! I am so glad you enjoyed the cookies. 🙂
Joan B
I wanted to tell you that I LOVE this recipe! I’ve made it several times and these delights are always a hit. I love to bake and am not deterred by difficult recipes. But sometimes, a girl just wants a tasty, EASY recipe. This one is IT! Easy, and importantly, delicious! You should tag that it’s a quick recipe too … for last-minute desserts or gifts. Nice job on the tips, too. Thanks!
Sam
I am so glad you enjoyed the cookies, Joan! 🙂
Sally
I liked the ease of using melted butter. It stirred together nicely. But, I really think less sugar would be better. I found them far too sweet. Perhaps adding some salty nuts would help too. I might try that next time.
Olivia
This recipe is incredible 😍 I use regular chocolate chunks in the dough and push which the chocolate chips in the top when they’re done baking, because white chocolate chips tend to turn brown in the oven.
Sam
I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed them, Olivia!! Thank you for commenting!