Chocolate Chip Cookies Without Brown Sugar (Small Batch!)
Have you ever wondered how to make Chocolate Chip Cookies without brown sugar? Well, now you can. My small-batch cookie recipe yields 8 gorgeously golden, perfectly sweet & salty chocolate chip cookies using just granulated sugar. Make these soft on the inside cookies with just 30 minutes of active time. You’ll be so glad you did!
Servings: 8 Cookies
Calories: 273kcal
Equipment
- Tablespoon or Medium Cookie Scoop
Ingredients
- 1 Cup All-Purpose Flour
- ½ teaspoon Kosher Salt
- ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
- ⅓ Cup Unsalted Butter Melted
- ½ Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Egg large
- 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract
- 1 Cup Chocolate Chips with a few saved for post-bake
- Flakey Sea Salt post-bake
Instructions
- Whisk together the all-purpose flour, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl.1 Cup All-Purpose Flour, ½ teaspoon Kosher Salt, ¼ teaspoon Baking Soda
- Mix together the butter, sugar, egg, and vanilla in a large bowl. Add the dry ingredients and stir until everything is combined. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips.⅓ Cup Unsalted Butter
- Using a medium cookie scoop, scoop dough and place on a lined plate or small baking tray. Place your dough in the fridge overnight, or at a bare minimum for thirty minutes - this helps add to the texture, flavor and spreading of the cookie when they are ready to bake.½ Cup Granulated Sugar, 1 Egg, 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Extract, 1 Cup Chocolate Chips
- Prepare your baking sheets with parchment paper. Place the cookies about 2-inches apart on your baking sheets.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and one sheet at a time, bake your cookies until the edges are firm and the centers are soft, about 12-14 minutes.
- Sprinkle with flakey sea salt, cool your cookies on a wire rack and enjoy!Flakey Sea Salt
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Notes
Optional Variations
These no brown sugar chocolate chip cookies are rife with opportunities to customize! Here are a few of my favorite variations:
- Add nuts or other mix-ins. Chocolate chips and pecans are a classic combo, but feel free to have some fun here! Walnuts, pistachios, macadamias, other flavors of baking chips, chopped chocolate, or chopped candies are all perfectly acceptable substitutes or add-ins.
- Dairy-free. Swap in your favorite plant-based butter instead.
- Brown the butter. Deepen the flavor of these caramelized beauties by taking a little extra time to make beurre noisette.
- Use almond extract. Almond-flavored foods are among my favorites, so I’ll often swap out vanilla for almond extract in recipes. You can also feel free to do a 50/50 mix!
- Turn them into ice cream sandwiches like my Ginger Molasses Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches recipe!
Nutrition
Calories: 273kcal | Carbohydrates: 37g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 13g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 45mg | Sodium: 194mg | Potassium: 33mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 21g | Vitamin A: 266IU | Calcium: 9mg | Iron: 1mg
