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Soft and chewy Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars recipe! Filled with mini chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, and walnuts. Basically Chocolate Chip Cookies but way easier!
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars | National Cookie Day
In honor of National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day on August 4, I thought I’d post an easy and crowd-pleasing recipe that everyone should have. We all have a chocolate chip cookie recipe we love, but do you know what is even better than chocolate chip cookies? Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars full of chocolate, sugar, and walnuts. They’re easier to make than normal cookies and are even easier to eat.
Looking for even more chocolate chip cookie recipes? Check these out!
- Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
- Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies.
- Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Chip Pecan Cookies
- Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookie
Main Ingredients Needed
For this chocolate chip cookie bar recipe, you’re going to want to gather up all of the regular ingredients you’d use for normal cookies. Plus a couple of special mix-ins. Here’s what you’ll need:
- Butter – delicious fat to start these cookies off right.
- Brown Sugar and Granulated Sugar – creamed with the butter, these are both used for sweetening and flavor.
- Egg and Egg Yolks – these are both used for the structure and texture of the cookie bars.
- Vanilla – for flavor.
- All-Purpose Flour – to fill out the bars.
- Baking Soda – the leavening agent.
- Salt – to balance out all the sweetness.
- Walnuts – chopped. You could also sub these out for a nut that you like or just leave them out all together.
- Mini Chocolate Chips – I used semi-sweet mini chocolate chips.
- Chocolate Chunks – buy storebought or a chocolate bar chopped up.
How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
For full details on how to make Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars, see the recipe card down below!
Step 1: Prep
Preheat oven. Line glass 9×13 dish with parchment paper and set aside.
Step 2: Make the Dough
Place butter into a large bowl and melt together in the microwave. Stir in brown sugar and granulated sugar until well combined. Add in egg, egg yolk, and vanilla. Mix until lighter in color. Add in the flour, baking soda, and salt. Scrape the sides of the bowl and the bottom really well to ensure a smooth, well-stirred batter.
Hand-stir the mini chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, and walnuts into the batter and press into the prepared pan.
Step 3: Bake, Cool + Serve
Bake until the center is mostly cooked. Then cool before cutting into bars and serving.
You can definitely cut these when they’re warm (because warm cookies always win over room temperature cookies), but you run the risk of not getting perfect edges. If you’re not photographing them for your blog (ahem), then by all means, dig in immediately. Perhaps with some ice cream too.
How to Cut Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
To get perfect cuts from these chocolate chip cookies bars, simply overline your baking dish with either parchment paper or tin foil (that way you have “handles” to lift the bars out cleanly). Once the bars are out of the pan, cut with a large knife, wiping it off as necessary.
More Cookie Bars to Try!
- Sugar Cookie Bars
- Double Chocolate Cookie Bars
- Caramel Snickerdoodle Bars
- Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Bars
- S’mores Bars
Or if you’re looking for safe-to-eat dough, here you go Edible Cookie Dough!
The printable recipe card is below, print it, pin it or bookmark this page so you can make these Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars anytime you want! Happy baking 🙂
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter 1 1/2 sticks or 12 tablespoons
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet mini chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup chocolate chunks
- 1/2 cup walnuts chopped (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line glass 9×13 dish with parchment paper and set aside.
- Place butter into a large bowl and melt together in the microwave. Stir in brown sugar and granulated sugar until well combined.
- Add in egg, egg yolk and vanilla. Mix until lighter in color.
- Add in the flour, baking soda, and salt. Scrape the sides of the bowl and the bottom really well to ensure a smooth, well-stirred batter.
- Hand-stir the mini chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, and walnuts into the batter and press into prepared pan.
- Bake 15-18 minutes or until the center is mostly cooked.
- Cool 15 minutes before cutting into bars and serving.
So good.
Can I skip parchment and spray Pam?
yes!
This is such a great recipe, I make it often for my kids’ lunchboxes & it is a family favorite. definite must try, & most ingredients you likely already have in your pantry! Thanks for the great recipes, Lauren, & happy blogiversary!
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Looks Easy and Good. I left a comment on another recipe! Enjoy your blog.
My chocolate chip cookies always fall flat and they take forever to make individually. This will solve both those problems!!
Chocolate Chip cookies are my favorite – can’t wait to try this one out!
I’m going to make these this week! They look delicious 😋
I look forward to making these bars!! Yum!
Perfect for bunco night! These look so good!
We are making these today! Will be perfect after almost a week off from school and a nice treat for lunches tomorrow when they have to go back to school!
Made these bars twice! Came out delicious! Kids love having them as a dessert in their lunches!
These are so good!!! I made them for a family gathering and they didn’t last long. Will be making them again for sure.
Looks like a great recipe, we will be trying it out today!! My teenager has been asking for m&m cookie bars so will add a bunch of those, too. And next I’ll be grabbing my ipad and downloading that free cookie book, thanks for that!!!!
Sounds delicious especially for this preggo belly.
These look delicious! I am not sure how I didn’t see them before, but am planning to make them for a football party today. 😊
These look so good. Can’t wait to try this out when its colder.
I kind of just want to book a stay at double tree just for the cookies 😊 my daughter has been asking for us to bake something and this sounds so amazing with all the chocolatey goodness.
Need to try these! Pinning for later.
I love bar cookies because they’re easy to make, so I’ll be giving these a try!
These were SOOOOOOO good and SOOOOOOO easy to make. We made this for my sons football team and they were a huge hit! Thank you for sharing this recipe =)
Kristen A
The bars look great but they were a flop for me. I omitted the walnuts, due to our tastes, and used more chips instead. My 9×13 pan is not glass so I expected extra baking time. Even after 35 minutes, the bars are ridiculously soft and quite oily. I think the recipe needs more flour. A bit of a disappointment and I wouldn’t try this recipe again. Sorry, Lauren.
I did have the wrong measurement for the butter when I first posted this recipe but corrected it a few hours later! That’s the only thing I could think of why they didn’t turn out! I’m so sorry you had a bad experience with one of my recipes!
I did have the right butter amount but maybe the additional chocolate in lieu of walnuts really messed with it. It is not like we wasted them though, I found they were tasty as long as you ate them frozen 😉 which is perfect for a summer cookie.
I made them and they were great! Baking them in a different pan and using more chocolate chips does change things (I know from experience) You should try them again in a glass baking dish and I’m sure you”ll love them!
Kristen
I am happy that these cookie bars worked for you! They definitely had good flavor even though they didn’t cook through for me so I am sure they were a hit with your son’s team.
Unfortunately I don’t have a glass pan so I used my usual 9×13 and with other recipes, just adding baking time can usual account for the different pan material.
In retrospect, I think that if I just left out the walnuts and didn’t increase the chocolate at all they might have been better!
These cookies look amazing!! Can’t wait to try them! Just checking, but did you mean 3/4 cup butter? That would be 12Tbs, not 1 1/2 cups. Just want to make sure I have the right amounts! Thanks, Lauren!!
Noticed that error right after you did! Meant 1 1/2 STICKS which is 3/4 cup.
I think that should be 3/4 cup butter. These look delicious!!!