Triple Chocolate Chip Cookies!

These triple chocolate cookies are cocoa-based, packed with white, milk, and dark chocolate chips, and baked straight away without any chilling. Prep takes 10 minutes, bake time is 10 to 12 minutes, and total time is just 22 minutes.

Why these cookies crinkle

These are my ultimate go-to cookies because the dough is quick, requires zero chilling, and is completely customisable. They have a gorgeous, rustic crinkle-top appearance. This iconic crinkle effect comes from the precise blend of sugars alongside a balanced pairing of raising agents. They are perfect just out of the oven when warm and gooey, or left to cool to accompany a cold glass of milk.

 This cookie dough is similar to other recipes that I have already published. They’re designed to be a super simple go-to recipe for a simple triple chocolate cookie that you don’t need to prep much, or chill before baking. 

• Butter – you can use block butter at room temperature or a baking spread 
• Sugars – I use a mixture of light brown sugar and white granulated sugar for a delicious mix of flavours and a good texture 
• Egg – I only use one medium egg, but one large works 
• Flavour – vanilla is always optional, but I love it added in
• Cocoa – I use a strong cocoa powder for the flavour as well as the darkness of the cookies that come out 
• Flour – I use plain flour to prevent too much raising agent, but you can use self raising if you leave out the other raising agents. They may just spread more.
• Raising agents – Bicarbonate of soda (baking soda in the US) plus a tiny touch of baking powder provides the exact reaction needed to create the classic crinkle texture.
• Salt – optional, but I genuinely believe salt is WONDERFUL in cookies

Chocolate variations and add-ins

I am an utter chocoholic, so I load these up with the maximum amount of chocolate chips. However, you can make this recipe your own with these easy swaps:

Flavouring Extracts: Swap the vanilla extract for orange extract or peppermint oil to easily create a chocolate orange or mint chocolate variation.

Chips vs. Chunks: I often use standard chocolate chips for ease, but chopping up a high-quality chocolate bar into large chocolate chunk pieces creates beautiful, molten pockets of pooled chocolate.

Mix-and-Match: You can use any mix of white, milk, dark, or even semi-sweet chocolate chips as long as you keep the total weight to 300 grams.

How to bake these triple chocolate chip cookies

I make the cookie dough up in my stand mixer, but a hand mixer or a spatula and a bowl does work. Then, I use a 5cm scoop to portion my cookies onto my lined trays. I use large trays, and only put 6 per tray to make sure that they have room to spread. I don’t chill the cookie dough myself, but if you have a tray that can’t fit in the oven yet, you can just put them in the fridge for now. 

You could bake them for a couple minutes longer to get a crunchier outside, but still have a gooey outside, which I often do, or even bake them for a minute less to have the gooiest and softest cookies in the world. I realise that everyone likes their cookies done slightly differently to the next person, so these are all about the baking time.

Tips and storage

If your cookies look a little too domed when they are fresh out of the oven, simply tap the baking trays onto your work surface a couple of times to flatten them out a smidge, then leave them to cool completely on the tray. For the best results, I use a specific combination of high-quality dark, milk, and white chocolate alongside a handy three-size cookie scoop set, using the middle size to get perfectly uniform portions.

Once baked, these delicious treats will stay fresh for four to five days at room temperature in an airtight container, though they are usually eaten long before then. Alternatively, you can freeze the baked cookies for up to three months, or even freeze the raw cookie dough balls ahead of time so you can enjoy freshly baked cookies whenever a craving hits.

Triple chocolate recipes

If you mention anything triple chocolate to me, I am immediately more interested and I pay attention. There is something about adding all of the chocolate you can to a bake that I adore. My no-bake triple chocolate cheesecake is one of my favourite recipes ever (THE LAYERS ARE AWESOME), but you can’t beat a triple chocolate cookie. Like honestly, there is nothing better.

Well, there’s always my brownie cookies or my NYC chocolate chip cookies if you want that decadent, delicious chocolate cookie hit in another form.