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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.
Hi. First, I love your content and recipes. I followed you on tik tok for quite some time. I tried unsuccessfully to reach out on tik tok regarding this recipe. You have two recipes on your blog for mini chocolate chip cookies. Which one is the correct one? ( not taking about the Costco one) the measurements are did sent for the vanilla. And I am confused on the measurement of flour in grams. I always thought 3 cups of flour was 380g not 456g. Please help! Thank you 🙂
Hi Angie! Thank you for the support. This recipe is great for mini chocolate chip cookies – but you can play with quantities of vanilla so it aligns with your flavor preferences. ☺️ Funny enough, there are different “standard” quantities for metric measurements – I use Ina Garten’s metric standard which may account for some of the differences. If you’re ever questioning the quantities, you can double check with my imperial measurements (cups/tablespoons, etc). Hope that helps!
If I just choose to use the measuring cups and not weigh everything will that be okay?
Thank you
Oh absolutely!!
I use many of your recipes. Today I made these. Recipe made 160 mini cookies! They are delicious. I will be selling them at my pop up bakery. Thank you.
Yay! So glad to hear you loved them.
These are a go to in our family: to bring to a potluck, send to a new mom/neighbor, or an afternoon pick me up. They go together quickly and the recipe is easy to half. So good!
Seriously the best cookies I have ever had. Makes so many perfect bite sized guilt free cookies!
Do these freeze well?
Extremely well! Let them cool completely and then freeze in a ziptop bag or an airtight container. Use within 3 months!
Can you make these full size?
Yes, you can. You will just scoop into a larger size and increase the baking time. Be sure to watch the cookies closely and remove when the top is no longer glossy.
What kitchenaid do you use? I love the glass bowl. It looks huge.
I have a 5QT Tilt Head Kitchen Aid. I love it! Here’s the one I have (I bought the glass bowl separately). https://amzn.to/3uEFY2e
This was a great recipe! I baked these chocolate chip, m&m’s, chocolate cookies by following your video. My oldest son needed to bring goodies for a bake sale, and I packaged 4 cookies per bag, 50 bags total! Thank you for testing and posting great recipes.
Can you freeze the dough? Do you thaw before baking if so?
yes, you can! Here are my favorite tips for freezing cookie dough: https://cookiesfordays.com/how-to-freeze-cookie-dough/
yum!! But how is the flour amount right? Is it 3 cups or 456grams? Because 3 cups doesnt equal that many grams so I’m confused…
Hi! I talk about why my metric measurements might differ from others here: https://cookingwithkarli.com/metric-measurements/