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Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies are a small bite-sized chocolate chip cookie! All the flavor and chewiness of a regular chocolate chip cookie, in miniature form! These Mini Cookies are perfect for little hands and parties!
Mini Cookies with Chocolate Chips are Bite-Sized Goodness!
I don’t know why, but I am kind of mini obsessed. Small things are just the cutest, aren’t they? For example, my grocery store sells buttermilk in miniature milk jugs and I just can’t even handle it. Toy poodles.. be still my heart!
Itty bitty tiny things might be a weak spot with me. I know for a fact that these bite-sized chocolate chip cookies ARE a weak spot for me.
They are so pop-able! The good news is, you can literally eat 10 of these and not feel guilty about it! Each and every cookie is made with 1 teaspoon worth of dough. Yes! A teaspoon! These little guys bake up in no time!
I love to make these when we go to parties where there will be a lot of kids. They are perfect for little hands, just enough sweetness but nothing over the top. Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies are also always a major hit at potlucks. Or even for a fun tea party for your daughter and her stuffed animals.
Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Ingredients
- Butter- Real butter is always key in the best chocolate chip cookies! The flavor that comes from this ingredient is just so good!
- Granulated Sugar
- Brown Sugar- The combination of 2 sugars give a wonderful depth of flavor, and the brown sugar keeps the cookie moist and chewy.
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- Flour- All purpose flour is perfect for this recipe.
- Salt
- Baking Soda
- Mini Chocolate Chips- Yes, you will need to use mini here. Not only are mini things adorable, but you need mini chips to get the right cookie to chocolate ratio.
How to make Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies
I use the same base recipe for these mini chocolate chip cookies as my favorite Double Trouble Chocolate Chip Cookies. The only difference is I use mini chocolate chips and rolls them a whole lot smaller!
First, cream together the butter and sugars. Then add in the egg and vanilla.
Next goes in the flour, salt and baking soda. Mix thoroughly. Fold in mini chocolate chips.
After the mini chocolate chips are folded into the cookie dough, use a teaspoon measure spoon to scoop and roll the dough.
To make this process easier, I spray the measuring spoon with non-stick spray before scooping and then repeat whenever the cookie dough starts to stick.
The cookies will spread slightly while baking. Arrange on a cookie sheet, leaving about an inch in-between each cookie dough ball.
Bake at 350° for 6 minutes. Pull the cookies out when the tops are no longer glossy. Let the cookies cool right on the hot pan, they will continue to cook a little bit more as they cool.
Best eaten the same day, but will store well in an airtight container for a few days.
How to store Mini Cookies with chocolate chips
Store your cookies in an air tight container. They will keep at room temperature for 2-3 days. If you are wanting them to last longer than that, you’ll want to freeze them.
How to freeze Small Cookies
Arrange your cookies in a single layer on a cookie sheet and then freeze them for 30 minutes. This will freeze the outside of the cookie which means you can now toss them all into a large zip top bag and they won’t freeze together in one big lump. You can now just pull a few out at a time.
Pull them out of the freezer about 30 minutes before you want to serve them to allow the cookies time to come up to room temperature.. or eat them frozen like I do. They are seriously so good frozen!
Mini Cookie Recipe FAQs
There are a lot of factors that contribute to the chewy texture of the cookie Cooked at a lower temperature for a longer time helps prevent cookies from over baking and becoming too crunchy. To achieve the perfect chewy texture, it’s important to be mindful of ingredients and following the recipe instructions and baking time closely.
Making your own chocolate chip cookies can be more cost-effective than buying them ready-made from a store. You can opt for high-quality ingredients which might be more expensive in store bought cookies. Additionally, by making your own cookies, you can make larger batches at a time which can save you time and money compared to buying them individually.
Adding baking soda to cookies can help to enhance the texture and appearance of the finished product. Baking soda is an alkaline ingredient that, when combined with an acidic ingredient such as brown sugar creates carbon dioxide gas. This gas causes the cookies to rise and become thicker, resulting in a softer texture.
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Small Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup (222 g) salted butter
- 3/4 cup (172.5 g) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (246 g) brown sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 3 cups (456 g) all-purpose flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 2 cups (480 g) mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C).
- Cream together the butter, both sugars, eggs and vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt and baking soda.
- Mix the dry ingredients with the creamed mixture. Mix well.
- Fold the mini chocolate chips into the cookie dough.
- Scoop the dough out with a 1 tsp measuring spoon and arrange onto a greased cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 6 minutes or until the tops are no longer glossy.
- Cool on the pan. Best eaten the same day but will store well in an airtight container for a couple of days.
This recipe is amazing! I managed to get 140 mini cookies with one batch. Don’t ask me how lol I followed the instructions, added a bit more flour to get the right cookie dough consistency and measured out 140 – 1 tsp mini cookies. They’re too good right out of the oven and they’re SOOOO CUTE. 😋
Perfection!
Hi Karli, love your recipe, what size cookie scoop would I use to make them larger for my husband. Would you still roll them in a ball?
This cookie recipe is meant to be made into little mini cookies, but you could try a 1.5Tbsp scoop and bake for 8-10 minutes if you’re hoping for larger cookies. Or you can check out my Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe designed to be a little bit bigger: https://cookiesfordays.com/chewy-chocolate-chip-cookies/
I am going to make these small chocolate chip cookies and just wonder whether you use light brown or dark brown sugar, or whether it really matters. The hint re: spraying the 1 tsp measure was brilliant!! Have made several other of your cookie recipes and each one would get an A+. Thank you.
These are delicious! Just to let you know, 2 cups of mini chocolate chips in grams is actually about 283 g, not 480 g 🙂
Hi Angelina, glad you loved the cookies! I use the Ina Garten standard for metric measurements, but I know there can be some differentiation based on size of the mini chocolate chips, etc. But this is a good note for others using metric measurements!
So I got the tsp scoop followed all measuring and I ended up with about 250 mini cookies 🤣 definitely not complaining but was a little shocked! They’re so delicious!!!
The best, cutest cookies. I needed to fill some containers with mini cookies. Your recipes have NEVER disappointed me, so I went to look up your mini recipes. I made 120 (5 cookie sheets) cookies, packaged them, and they were adorable. The recipients were thrilled with their treats. Karli, every recipe of your that I have tried has been a HUGE hit with everyone I share the finished product with. Keep on creating, and a HUGE thank you for sharing with all of us.
Thank you so, so much for the support! I’m glad you loved the mini cookies (they’re some of my favorites)!
Is it best to use room temperature or cold butter?
I use room temperature butter in this recipe!
These are the best chocolate chip cookies I have ever had. They are PERFECT. We cannot stop eating them 🤤🍪 seriously readers. MAKE THESE!!! No regrets will be had.
I cannot WAIT to try more recipes. Thank you so much for all you do Karli, and for helping us make our kitchen’s more magical!
I only wish I could post a photo with my comment !
Awe, thank you so much! I am so glad you loved them. Please tag me on socials with your picture for a chance to be featured!
Is the flour measurement in grams incorrect? Because I thought 1 cup of flour was 120 grams which would be 380g to 3 cups but when I googled it , I also saw 125g to one cup. Sorry for the silly question I just don’t want to mess up the recipe
Hi Angie! Ironically, there are different “standard” quantities for metric measurements – I use the Ina Garten metric standard for my measurements! If you’re ever questioning the quantities, you can double check with my imperial measurements (cups/tablespoons, etc). Hope that helps!