These light and crisp sugar cookies are dotted with chocolate chips. It’s the perfect blend of two classic cookies! If your inner cookie monster craves cookies, make this easy recipe for Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies.

Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies

With the holiday season upon us, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than with this Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookie recipe where a traditional sugar cookie meets everyone’s favorite; the chocolate chip cookie. The perfect combination of flavors and textures, these buttery cookies are ideal for the season.

Sugar Cookies With Chocolate Chips

What’s not to love about a cookie with one full stick of butter? These buttery sugar cookies turn out light and crisp with traditional cookie ingredients like flour, baking soda, vanilla, and sugar. I’ve added semi-sweet chocolate chips to this classic sugar cookie dough but you can easily change up the type of chocolate, add M&Ms, seasonal candies, crushed candy canes, or whatever else you have on hand.

If you love sugar cookie recipes, you are sure to love these sugar cookie recipes too: Brown Sugar Cookies and Iced Maple Sugar Cookies.

You may be wondering “What is the difference between a chocolate chip cookie and a sugar cookie?” The main difference is the addition of brown sugar. Chocolate chip cookies are made with both brown sugar and granulated sugar, brown sugar contains molasses which gives recipes that caramel coloring as well as flavoring. A traditional sugar cookie only uses granulated sugar and will produce a lighter, crisper cookie.

So if you are thinking that chocolate chip cookie dough without chocolate chips is a sugar cookie, then think again.

For complete ingredients and instructions scroll to the bottom of this post for the full printable recipe card.

Flour: I used all-purpose flour to make these sugar cookies. For gluten-free cookies, use 1-1 gluten-free flour.
Salt: A touch of salt helps enhance the flavor.
Butter: You’ll need one full stick of unsalted butter, softened.
Sugar: I used white granulated sugar to sweeten these cookies.
Egg: An egg helps bind the cookies so they don’t fall apart.
Vanilla extract: Vanilla extract enhances the sweetness of these chocolate chip cookies.
Baking soda: Baking soda helps the cookies rise.
Semi-sweet chocolate chips: My go-to for chocolate chip cookies is always semi-sweet chocolate but you can use whichever type of chocolate you like. Regular chocolate chips or mini chocolate chips both work.

Be sure to keep reading to find tips and tricks, substitutions, and answers to questions you may have about these delicious sugar cookies.

These easy chocolate chip sugar cookies are great make-ahead cookies as they freeze extremely well. If you’ve got a to-do list that’s a mile long, preparing these cookies ahead of time would be ideal. Double or triple the batch and stash them in the freezer until a few hours before you want to serve them.

Sift together the dry ingredients; flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.

Using a mixer with the paddle attachment, cream butter, and sugar until fluffy. Add in the wet ingredients; egg and vanilla, and beat again for about 1 minute.

Slowly fold in the dry ingredients and then the chocolate chips, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary.

Scoop out the dough using a cookie scoop, about 2 tablespoons, and roll the dough into balls. Place the cookie dough balls on a plate or a parchment paper lined baking tray and chill for at least 2 hours (you can leave the balls of dough for up to 3 days though, make sure they are covered with plastic wrap).

Preheat oven to 350°F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Bake cookies for 12-14 minutes or until the edges are just barely golden brown.

Cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Leftover chocolate chip sugar cookies will keep for up to one week in an airtight container at room temperature on the kitchen counter or for up to 3 months in the freezer. Thaw at room temperature until soft enough to eat.

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Tips & Tricks

Bring the refrigerated ingredients to room temperature before you begin so they are easier to blend.
Measure the flour accurately by scooping it into a measuring cup and then leveling it off with a knife. The correct amount of flour will give you the best texture so you don’t want to use too much flour or too little flour.
Pull out a few fun-shaped cookie cutters and mold the cookies into different shapes.
Plan accordingly to allocate the proper amount of chill time.

This recipe is part of The Sweetest Season, an annual virtual cookie swap co-hosted by Erin of The Speckled Palate and Susannah of Feast + West. Every year, food bloggers get together to share new holiday cookie recipes to make and give.

This year we are raising money for Cookies 4 Kids’ Cancer, which is a recognized 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to funding research for new, innovative, and less-toxic treatments for childhood cancer.

Since 2008, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer has granted nearly $18 million to pediatric cancer research in the form of 100+ research grants to leading pediatric cancer centers across the country. From these grants have stemmed 35+ treatments available to kids battling cancer today.

Help us raise money for this important cause! Donate through our fundraising page.

Another exciting thing is that Cookies for Kids’ Cancer is in a matching window with their friends at OXO, meaning OXO will be matching every dollar raised through the end of 2024, up to $100,000. Whatever money we raise will automatically double on our fundraising page!

This year, in addition to these Chocolate Chip Sugar Cookies I made these Double Chocolate Cranberry Magic Bars

and these super cute Christmas Dipped Oreo Cookies for our Sweetest Season Event. You can see ALL of my Cookies recipes here.

Side view of the chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream cake

More Recipes to Love

If you’re a chocolate chip fan you should try these Malted Chocolate Chip Cookies, these Bailey’s Chocolate Chip Cookies, or these Peppermint Dipped Chocolate Chip Cookies. Or, if you want to take your next celebration over the top, try my recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream Cake that is pictured above.

This easy recipe makes delicious cookies with just a few basic ingredients. Wishing you all the best for happy baking during this festive time of year.

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