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Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Here is an easy milk chocolate chip cookies recipe. It is very simple to make and these milk chocolate chip cookies taste sort of like candy bars. Your kids will love them! Most chocolate chip cookie recipes use semi-sweet chocolate chips. However, my family thinks semi-sweet chocolate is a little too bitter and they prefer the taste of milk chocolate. Therefore, these milk chocolate cookies are sweeter and tastier than regular semi-sweet chocolate chip cookies. We hope your family enjoys them too!

Delicious Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies

Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

This recipe should only take 10-15 minutes to prepare & clean up. Moreover, if you like this easy chocolate chip cookies recipe, we hope you will leave a comment below and give us a 5 star rating. Thank you in advance! We also have a printable and “pin-able” chocolate chip cookie recipe at the bottom of this page.

Ingredients – Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

  • 16 Tablespoons – Unsalted Butter (softened) – 230 grams
  • 2 – Large Eggs
  • 3/4 Cup – Brown Sugar (packed) – 161 grams
  • 3/4 Cup – Granulated White Sugar – 150 grams
  • 1 Teaspoon – Vanilla Extract – 5 milliliters
  • 2 1/4 Cups – Flour (all purpose flour) – 270 grams
  • 1 Teaspoon – Baking Soda – 5 milliliters
  • 1 Teaspoon – Salt – 5 milliliters (optional – use only 1/2 teaspoon if you are trying to reduce the sodium in your diet)
  • 2 Cups – Milk Chocolate Chips (morsels) – 340 grams
  • Optional – Replace one of the cups of milk chocolate chips with one cup of dried fruit, M&Ms or chopped nuts.

Servings – Roughly 24-30 milk chocolate chip cookies (amount depends on the size of the cookie that you create)

Equipment – Measuring cup & spoons, mixing bowl, long wooden spoon, electric mixer, tablespoon or cookie dough scoop, oven mitts, silicon spatula, baking sheets, cooling rack and an oven.

Key Ingredient – Milk Chocolate Chips!

Milk Chocolate Chips

Instructions – Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  • Lightly beat the eggs.
  • Soften butter in the microwave.
  • Mix eggs, butter, granulated white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Use an electric mixer to mix these ingredients together. Mix until creamy.
  • Then stir in the flour, baking soda and salt. Use an electric mixer to mix all of the ingredients together. Mix until ingredients are completely blended and cookie dough looks creamy. FYI – Read the tips section below to find out why using an electric mixer results in a much better cookie than mixing by hand.
  • Add the milk chocolate chips. Use a large wooden spoon to stir until the chips are evenly mixed in the dough.
  • Optional (but recommended) – Chill the dough in a covered bowl in your refrigerator for 30-60 minutes. This helps to prevent the cookie dough from spreading in the oven and reduces the potential for overly thin/flat cookies.
  • Scoop dough with a tablespoon or cookie dough scoop and place this dough “ball” or “drop” onto a nonstick baking sheet. You will need at least 2 baking sheets in order to bake all of the cookies at the same time (if they can fit in your oven) or you will need to bake each batch separately (one after the other).
  • Leave space of roughly 2-3 inches between each dough ball because the cookies will spread as they bake.
  • Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Remove baking tray from the oven. Wear oven mitts. Leave cookies on baking sheet to cool for 3-4 minutes. Otherwise, cookies might break when removed from pan.
  • Use a spatula to remove the milk chocolate chip cookies and place the cookies on wire cooling racks in order to cool completely.
  • Please read the tips section below for extra information on how to make this recipe successfully & to avoid common cookie problems.

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Tips – Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

  • The tips below are designed to help cookie “novices” and/or people with limited baking experience.
  • Click on our “print recipe” link if you want to print out this recipe. It includes all of the recipe’s ingredients and instructions. However, the recipe print function does not include our tips section. Please read the tips section in order to avoid common recipe problems.
  • You can use “regular” semi-sweet chocolate chips for this recipe (if you don’t have any milk chocolate chips). However, my kids & their friends seem to prefer sweeter milk chocolate cookies to the slightly bitter semi-sweet variety.
  • Optional – Once you have placed the cookie dough balls on the baking tray, you can press extra chocolate chips into the top of the cookie dough balls if you want a more chocolaty “appearance”. My family prefers the cookie appearance with the “pointy” ends of the chocolate chips facing up (versus the points being pressed down into the dough and only the flat bottoms of the chips showing). It helps to give these milk chocolate cookies a more interesting & unique look.
  • Optional – You can add some variety to these milk chocolate chip cookies by removing 1 cup if chocolate chips and adding 1 cup of dried cranberries, chopped walnuts, M&Ms, etc. For example, for a chocolate chip & dried cranberry version, you would need 1 cup of milk chocolate chips and 1 cup of dried cranberries (versus the 2 cups of milk chocolate chips called for in this recipe).
  • Cookies come out much better if you mix the ingredients with an electric mixer. The cookie dough comes out “creamier” and the ingredients are blended in better (i.e. no small flour “clumps”) if you use an electric mixer. Personally, I think that an electric mixer helps to create an enhanced version of cookies with milk chocolate chips.
  • Completely mix the eggs, butter and sugar together with an electric mixer BEFORE adding the flour. This will result in much better cookies. See the inadequately blended problems in the line below.
  • Mixing only by hand can lead to the cookie dough being inadequately blended. This can result in your cookies having unwanted “clumps” of ingredients (i.e. small flour clumps) and/or a gritty texture (inadequately blended sugar grains). Use an electric mixer for best results.
  • However, do not use the electric mixer on the chocolate chips… as this will just grind & chop them into tiny bits! Hand stir the chips into the cookie dough with a large spoon.
  • Tips to prevent “spreading” (i.e. overly thin cookies) – Chill the dough (see tip below), don’t squish the dough flat (higher dough results in higher cookies), use fresh baking soda (cookies made with stale baking soda don’t rise properly), measure the recipe ingredients exactly!! (too much oil results in “runny” dough and flatter cookies), always use cool or room temperature baking sheets (don’t reuse a hot baking sheet to make another batch… i.e. the hot baking sheet that was used to bake your first batch of cookies), don’t overmix the dough (only use an electric mixer for 1-2 minutes), make sure to use the right oven temperature (follow the recipe’s instructions because ovens that are too hot will cause cookies to “melt” too quickly and thus they will spread more than expected), etc.
  • Some bakers like to chill the cookie dough in their refrigerator for at least 30 minutes before baking in order to prevent flat/thin cookies. Colder dough results in less spreading. Others like to chill the dough for at least 2 hours in order to improve the taste and to reduce potential spreading even further.
  • Chilling the dough also helps with the ability to shape the cookies. The cookie dough is less sticky & runny. Therefore, it is easier to create round cookies with smooth edges.
  • You can make the cookie dough balls (drops, spoonfuls, etc.) with 2 tablespoons, a cookie dough scoop or your hands. Some people also like to wear food grade plastic gloves when making cookie dough balls/drops.
  • Use of a cookie dough scoop will give you more consistently shaped cookies versus varying sizes from using a less “exact” methods such as using a tablespoon or your hands.
  • For “rounder” cookies (with no edges sticking out), you can use a cookie dough scoop or mold the cookie dough by hand into round balls and then press down on the dough ball until it turns into a pancake shape.
  • For a more “natural” cookie shape, you can scoop the cookie dough with a tablespoon and place the cookie dough “drops” onto the baking sheet without shaping the dough. Your milk chocolate chip cookies will still taste great but they will just have a few more natural edges and bumps.
  • Place the baking tray on the oven’s middle rack for best results. If the baking tray is placed too high or too low in the oven, the baking tray may be too close to the heating element.
  • According to Wikipedia, milk chocolate “is sweet chocolate that also contains milk powder or condensed milk. In the UK and Ireland, milk chocolate must contain a minimum of 20% total dry cocoa solids; in the rest of the European Union, the minimum is 25%”. This is one of the reasons that European milk chocolate tastes different from American milk chocolate. Therefore, if you want to vary the taste of your chocolate chip cookies, you can try making some cookies with European milk chocolate next time (if you usually use American chocolate).
  • If you have a problem with a cookie recipe, please make sure that you are following the recipe exactly (i.e. using the correct oven temperature), using the correct amounts of ingredients (i.e. don’t eyeball the measurements versus using a measuring cup or accidentally add a tablespoon when a teaspoon is called for), using the correct ingredients (i.e. baking soda/powder versus yeast or all purpose flour versus bread flour), etc. Please don’t “wing” things with recipes.
  • In addition, you should always try to use relatively fresh baking soda & powder for the best results. For example, using baking soda from an open container (that has been deodorizing your refrigerator for months) may lead to subpar results. Old & hard baking soda/powder may lead to rising problems and/or leave small bitter clumps in these easy milk chocolate chip cookies.
  • My recipes are based on US ingredient measurements (i.e. US cups & tablespoons). However, as a courtesy to our European visitors, I have also included some very ROUGH European equivalents (i.e. grams & milliliters). Since I rarely use European measurements when baking, please let me know in the comment section below if any of the European ingredient measurements need to be changed (i.e. for XYZ ingredient, milliliters are more commonly used versus the grams information listed in the recipe).
  • Always wear oven mitts/gloves when dealing with ovens, hot baking sheets, etc.
  • For more cookie ideas (i.e. white chocolate chip, butterscotch or cranberry), please visit Bread Dad’s main Easy Cookie Recipes section.

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Reference Sources

  • Wikipedia, Chocolate
  • Wikipedia, Chocolate Chip Cookie
  • Wikipedia, Types of Chocolate
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Milk Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Here is an easy milk chocolate chip cookies recipe. It is very simple to make and these milk chocolate chip cookies taste sort of like candy bars. Your kids will love them! Most chocolate chip cookie recipes use semi-sweet chocolate chips. However, my family thinks semi-sweet chocolate is a little too bitter and they prefer the taste of milk chocolate. Please visit BreadDad.com for more great cookie & muffin recipes.
Prep Time15 mins
Cook Time9 mins
Total Time24 mins
Course: Appetizer, Dessert, Dinner, Lunch, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate chip cookies, easy chocolate chip cookie recipe, easy chocolate chip cookies, milk chocolate chip cookie recipe, milk chocolate chip cookies, milk chocolate chip cookies recipe, milk chocolate cookies
Servings: 30 Cookies
Calories: 202kcal
Author: Bread Dad

Ingredients

  • 16 Tablespoons Unsalted Butter (softened)
  • 2 Eggs (large)
  • 3/4 Cup Brown Sugar (packed)
  • 3/4 Cup Granulated White Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
  • 2 1/4 Cups Flour (all purpose flour)
  • 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1 Teaspoon Salt (optional - use only 1/2 teaspoon if you are trying to reduce the sodium in your diet)
  • 2 Cups Milk Chocolate Chips (morsels)

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  • Lightly beat the eggs.
  • Soften butter in the microwave.
  • Mix eggs, butter, granulated white sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract in a large bowl. Use an electric mixer to mix these ingredients together. Mix until creamy.
  • Then stir in the flour, baking soda and salt. Use an electric mixer to mix all of the ingredients together. Mix until ingredients are completely blended and cookie dough looks creamy.
  • Add the milk chocolate chips. Use a large wooden spoon to stir until the chips are evenly mixed in the dough.
  • Optional (but recommended) – Chill the dough in a covered bowl in your refrigerator for 30-60 minutes. This helps to prevent the cookie dough from spreading in the oven and reduces the potential for overly thin/flat cookies.
  • Scoop dough with a tablespoon or cookie dough scoop and place this dough “ball” or "drop" onto a nonstick baking sheet. You will need at least 2 baking sheets in order to bake all of the cookies at the same time (if they can fit in your oven) or you will need to bake each batch separately (one after the other).
  • Leave space of roughly 2-3 inches between each dough ball because the cookies will spread as they bake.
  • Bake for 8-10 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Remove baking tray from the oven. Wear oven mitts. Leave cookies on baking sheet to cool for 3-4 minutes. Otherwise, cookies might break when removed from pan.
  • Use a spatula to remove the milk chocolate chip cookies and place the cookies on wire cooling racks in order to cool completely.

Notes

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Nutrition

Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 202kcal | Carbohydrates: 24g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 28mg | Sodium: 122mg | Potassium: 92mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 208IU | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 1mg

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