Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

This chocolate chip cookie bar recipe is incredibly easy to make. These chewy chocolate chip cookie bars are packed with chocolate chunks and are perfect for chocolate chip cookie lovers. If you need a quick and easy dessert, look no further than these bars!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

It is hard to say no to a chocolate chip cookie. So let’s keep that energy and turn your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe into a cookie bar!

These chocolate chip cookie bars are incredibly easy to make. All you need is a bowl and a spoon to make the dough. The brown sugar and vanilla extract in the dough provides classic chocolate chip cookie flavor. Then, we add a ton of chocolate chunks, obviously. These bars are thick, chewy, and full of flavor!

If you want to give these bars a bit of a twist, feel free to add some chopped walnuts or pecans, or change up your chocolate chips! Use milk, semi-sweet, dark, or white chocolate chips!

If you love this recipe, check out my recipe for brown butter chocolate chip cookies!

Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

• Unsalted butter: Melted.
• Brown sugar: Light brown sugar, packed.
• Egg + egg yolk: Large egg, room temperature, plus one egg yolk.
• Vanilla extract: Pure vanilla extract is best.
• Baking soda: Leavening agent to help the bars rise.
• Salt: Enhances the flavors and contrasts some of the sweetness.
• All-purpose flour
• Chocolate chips: Use your favorite – semi-sweet chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, or milk chocolate chips! You could use chocolate chunks or chopped chocolate bars if you prefer.

How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

To make the chocolate chip cookie dough, all you need is a bowl and a spoon. The dough comes together in no time at all, and because we are using melted butter, no electric mixer is required!

Here is the basic breakdown on how to make these bars.

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a 8×8 baking pan with nonstick cooking spray and parchment paper.
2. In a large mixing bowl, stir together melted butter and brown sugar until smooth. Add in the egg, egg yolk and vanilla extract.
3. Then, add in the dry ingredients (baking soda, salt, and all-purpose flour) to the wet ingredients. Mix until a soft dough forms. Then, fold in the chocolate chips.
4. Spread the chocolate chip cookie dough in an even layer in the prepared baking pan.
5. Bake the bars for approximately 20 to 25 minutes until set on the edges and slightly underbaked in the center. Remove the bars from the oven and place on a wire rack cool to room temperature.