Soft, puffy, melt-in-your-mouth sugar cookies, chock-full of melty chocolate morsels… these Chocolate Chip Amish Sugar Cookies could not be easier and they’re made with common pantry ingredients! These Chocolate Chip Amish Sugar Cookies will be your new favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, guaranteed!
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I love creating new versions of the ever-popular and highly-rated/raved about Amish Sugar Cookies. I thought it would be cute to add chocolate chips to these little puffballs — I was really excited about infusing these with a heap of melty, decadent semi-sweet chocolate morsels to make Chocolate Chip Amish Sugar Cookies.
For whatever reason though, it never occurred to me that I was actually just making a recipe for chocolate chip cookies. In my head, I was making Amish Sugar Cookies with chocolate chips…. I was only thinking of these as a fun, chocolatey spin on Amish Sugar Cookies. I didn’t put together that these are just another way to make chocolate chip cookies.
Yet, that’s what they are!
So not only are they are a new version of Amish Sugar Cookies, but they’re also a new version of chocolate chip cookies.
It’s never a bad thing to have another option for chocolate chip cookies, and these are different than traditional ones. I think of classics as being a lot like Tollhouse’s chocolate chip cookies – crispy edges, chewy centers, they spread to be fairly thin overall, and are very buttery.
With these Chocolate Chip Amish Sugar Cookies, the base cookie part is buttery, rich, a little flaky, soft, puffy… reminds me a lot of a cut-out cookie. If you can imagine the flavor and texture of cut-outs, these are like that. Similar texture and taste overall.
When I make these plain, I say that they are the lazy persons’ cut-outs because you get all the benefits of cut-outs, but at a fraction of the work since they’re a simple drop cookie.
Imagine adding chocolate chips to cut-out cookies, if you can. But the cut-out cookies are thicker and puffier… that’s these Chocolate Chip Amish Sugar Cookies. Thicker cut-out cookies, jammed with two kinds of chocolate chips — regular ones and mini ones.
Adding only one kind of chip is fine, but I really like how the different sizes of the chips gives more diverse texture to these Chocolate Chip Amish Sugar Cookies. Mini chips seep into cookies and kind of meld into them. Chocolate gets very infused into nooks and crannies.
Bigger chips give you ‘gobs’ of chocolate bits in your cookies. They don’t disappear and seep, they stay in nice chunks of chocolate goodness. I definitely recommend some of both chips.
It’s no secret that Amish Sugar Cookies are incredibly popular around here, but they are popular for very good reason. Over the last few years, I’ve now made them cookies into a BUNCH of different variations! Check ’em out:
There are these Pecan Praline Amish Sugar Cookies and these Iced Maple Amish Sugar Cookies. Omg, don’t you love an iced maple cookie??
For springtime and summer, these Iced Almond Sugar Cookies are gorgeous, and the almond flavor is so incredible. Same with these Toasted Coconut Amish Sugar Cookies. So pretty, and soooo addictive. I adore citrus cookies, so if you’re the same, check out these Iced Lemon Amish Sugar Cookies and Iced Orange Amish Sugar Cookies.
I made a few that are great for fall/holidays, like these Pumpkin Spice Latte Amish Sugar Cookies, these Iced Chai-Spiced Amish Sugar Cookies, and these Peppermint Amish Sugar Cookies.
My personal favorite (I just made more this week) are these Cherry Almond Amish Sugar Cookies. Talk about nice to look at, AND more important, they feature the most delicious combo of flavors.
For any ol’ time at all, these Thin Crispy Amish Sugar Cookies are delightful, and we love to dunk them in coffee or milk, and these Iced Vanilla Amish Sugar Cookies are a classic!
Chocolate Chip Amish Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup vegetable or canola oil
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cream of tartar
- 2 cups mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups regular semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, oil, and sugars until combined.
- Beat in eggs and vanilla.
- In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and cream of tartar.
- In two additions, add flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating until just combined. Do not overmix. Dough will be kinda fluffy and light!
- Fold in all chocolate chips.
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
- Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto baking sheets.
- Bake at 375 for 8-11 minutes, or until edges and bottoms are lightly browned.
- Remove to wire racks to cool.
- Store cookies in airtight containers in a cool, dry place. Stack cookies with parchment paper or foil in-between layers. Cookies will keep for about a week.
Notes
Lovely work!! Charming one
Okay. I just bought some Nestle’s Tollhouse Espresso choc chips. 3 bags, actually, since I don’t know if they’re seasonal! This should be good with the brown butter version…I haven’t made any of the versions yet, and I’m spoiled for choice!
Sharon
I was very disappointed these cookies did not change their shape . The picture shows nice flat cookies.
They are definitely not flat. Both the pictures and the recipe description detail that these are thick and puffy. Sorry that you were expecting something different!
My stepdaughter lives soft cookies and mentioned a few months back she loved Amish chocolate chip cookies. I never heard of them, so googled your recipe. They are very yummy, but follow the link my son shared with me to show you his description of the cookies. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ScbSXJfjI&feature=youtu.be
It made me laugh so hard. They are sandy. But I love them!! I can’t wait to see what my stepdaughter says when she comes over fornhie 16th birthday tomorrow.
My stepdaughter loves soft cookies and mentioned a few months back she loved Amish chocolate chip cookies. I never heard of them, so googled your recipe. They are very yummy, but follow the link my son shared with me to show you his description of the cookies. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ScbSXJfjI&feature=youtu.be
It made me laugh so hard. They are sandy and weren’t really soft,. but I really love them!! I can’t wait to see what my stepdaughter says when she comes over for her 16th birthday tomorrow. And I’m a Sergeant in a prison,. So I’ll be bringing some ri my officers today as well. Very unique cookies!
I absolutely loved these cookies. My husband said best chocolate chip cookies that I have ever made. I made the Amish sugar cookies and they were excellent. So I will keep trying your other cookie recipes as the 1st two kinds were great. Thank you.
The Amish Sugar Cookies are so good, right? They never fail me and they are such a crowd-pleaser. I’m so glad you enjoyed. Thank you so much for letting me know. 🙂
Hi! Loved this recipe!! So nice and light! Just melts in your mouth! Thank you for sharing it!!
instructions say to beat butter oil and sugars together in large bowl, but there is no mention of butter in the list of ingredients. Am I missing somthing???
Yes, think so. 1 cup butter!
Awesome cookie! I bake for guests at rental property and just made these! It’s a keeper. Reminds me a little of a shortbread type cookie. Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I love that! I love that it’s your go-to for guests. Yes, it can be a bit reminiscent of a shortbread cookie in ways, for sure.
DELICIOUS COMBINATION…THANK YOU!
Fantastic! The mini chips make a huge difference. Dough was easy to handle. My husband and kids loved them. Thanks!
I wanted to freeze some. Should I bake them first, or freeze the cookies dough?
You can do either, honestly! Whatever is preferable to you. Holds up well to both options!
My family loved them. I didn’t use 4 cups of chocolate chips though, that seemed extreme. I used a bag of minis. Mine flattened out and didn’t stay mounded like the picture. Either way, I’ll agree with another commenter, they reminded me of shortbread in a way. I’ll make these again, definitely. Quick, easy, yummy, and a hit in the house. I’m buying up cinnamon chips, life crazy, I’ll try using those and see how they taste. I bet delicious 😊😊
I totally get it on the 4 cups, but these make such a big batch. The recipe could definitely be halved, and plenty of cookies to go around! But they are one of our favorites, so I pretty much never halve it. Haha. I LOVE mini chips, and they definitely distribute really well so you don’t need as much! Cinnamon chips are GREAT… a fabulous idea!!
Do you have nutritional information for this recipe? My aunt loves chocolate chip cookies but is a diabetic. Have you ever substituted the sugars with anything else?
I have never substituted the sugars, but my partner does this regularly and substitutes allulose. I have not tried that though!
I made these yesterday. The family loved them. I made 24 nice sized cookies and put the rest of the dough in 2 containers in the freezer so we can have fresh out of the oven cookies twice more very easily.
The cookies were the fluffiest, best chocolate chip cookie I’ve ever made.
Thanks for the recipe, I added it to my recipe box.
I followed the recipe to the letter and mine turned out dry, crumbly/sandy and flavorless.
Darn! I’m sorry to hear that you didn’t care for this recipe. I hope you have better luck elsewhere.