Joanna Gaines Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Make Joanna Gaine's famous chocolate chip cookie recipe from her cookbook Magnolia Table! They might just be your new favorite cookie!

I picked up Joanna Gaine's cookbook Magnolia Table Volume 1 (which was released back in 2018. Her newest cookbook is Magnolia Table Volume 2: A Collection of Recipes for Gatherings and that was released on April 7th, 2020. A lot of you have been making this cookie recipe again since she showed how to make it on her new cooking show. Which is supposed to be airing on her own network. Recently, Food Network showed a special episode of that where she made her cookies. Did you watch it? Let me know below if you did!

If you are going to try this recipe of hers make it how it is exactly written from her book first. Do not try to make substitutions or anything. You can always do that after a second try if you decide you like them. 🙂

If you like Joanna Gaines try her French Silk Pie recipe.

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• Ingredients Needed
• How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies
• Baking Powder or Baking Soda? 
• Recipe FAQs
• Other Recipes to Try
• Joanna Gaines Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe

Ingredients Needed

• All-purpose flour - is a type of wheat flour that is commonly used in cooking and baking. It is versatile and can be used for a variety of recipes, including bread, cakes, cookies, and pastries.
• Baking soda - also known as sodium bicarbonate, is a white crystalline powder that is commonly used in baking as a leavening agent
• Unsalted butter, at room temperature
• Packed light brown sugar -  Is made by combining granulated white sugar with molasses, which gives it a brown color and a slightly different taste than regular white sugar.
• Eggs - The best type of eggs you can buy at the store are organic or free-range eggs, while others may prefer eggs from specific breeds of chickens
• Vanilla extract -  It is made by macerating and soaking vanilla beans in a mixture of water and Vodka. Use a good pure vanilla instead of the imitation vanilla extract.
• Semisweet chocolate chips - or milk chocolate chips - it's a personal preference.
• See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements.

How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies

Arrange a rack in the center of the oven and heat to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Place the flour, baking soda, and salt together in a medium bowl; set aside.

Place the butter and sugar In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. (Alternatively, use an electric hand mixer and large bowl.) Beat on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the eggs and beat until blended. Add the vanilla and beat until blended.

Turn the mixer off and add the flour mixture. Mix on medium speed just until the flour is mixed in, then turn the mixer to high speed for a few seconds to pull the dough together; it will be chunky. Add the chocolate chips and beat on high speed to thoroughly and quickly mix in the chips, about 5 seconds.

Drop the dough by large spoonfuls onto the prepared baking sheet; don’t flatten them. Bake until lightly browned on top, 10 to 11 minutes. Cool on the pan on a rack for 1 minute, then transfer the cookies to the rack to cool completely. Repeat with the remaining dough.

Baking Powder or Baking Soda? 

Joanna’s recipe calls for baking soda. I’ve watched her make it on her show and it even states that in her recipe book. Many of you have commented below and said baking powder helps the cookies to rise. Here's the thing though...

Baking soda and baking powder are both leavening agents but one requires an acid to help it work. The acid in Joanna’s cookie recipe is from the molasses in the brown sugar. 

Baking soda:  Contains only one ingredient (sodium bicarbonate). It needs some kind of acid to help it rise like buttermilk, brown sugar (it has molasses in it), honey, lemon juice, cream of tartar, or natural cocoa powder. Adding too much baking soda to a recipe will cause a very bitter after taste and that is something you do not want in a cookie right? ALWAYS measure the exact amount. 

Baking Powder:  Baking powder already contains baking soda in it and cream of tartar is added to it. Since baking powder already has an acid added to it (which is the cream of tartar) you do not need to add any extra acid. Adding too much baking powder can also cause a bitter aftertaste. 

Here's the Youtube video where you can watch her make them...

Recipe FAQs

Other Recipes to Try

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