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If you’re a chocolate lover, these Bakery Style Triple Chocolate Cookies are about to become your new obsession. They’re thick, fudgy, ultra-rich, and loaded with three kinds of chocolate for the ultimate bakery-style cookie experience.
The secret is melted chocolate mixed directly into the dough, along with cocoa powder and plenty of chocolate chips. The result is a soft, chewy cookie with crisp edges and a deeply chocolatey flavor that tastes like it came straight from a high-end bakery.
And if you’re anything like me, you’ll be eating one while it’s still warm from the oven with melted chocolate running down your fingers.
Why You’ll Love These Triple Chocolate Cookies
- Perfect for chocolate lovers
- Thick bakery-style cookies
- Triple chocolate flavor
- Soft and fudgy centers
- Loaded with chocolate chips
- Better than a bakery
- Make-ahead friendly
- Freezer-friendly
Ingredients You’ll Need
This chocolate chocolate chip cookie recipe requires just pantry staples — making these chocolate cookies dangerously easy to whip up at a moment’s notice. Here’s what goes into this chocolate cookie recipe:
- Unsalted Butter: Creates a rich, tender cookie.
- Granulated Sugar: Helps create crisp edges.
- Brown Sugar: Adds moisture and chewiness.
- Semi-sweet Chocolate: Melted into the dough for intense chocolate flavor.
- Eggs: Add structure, richness, and help create a soft, chewy texture.
- Vanilla Extract: Enhances the chocolate flavor and adds warmth.
- All-purpose Flour: Provides structure while keeping the cookies tender.
- Cocoa Powder: Deepens the chocolate flavor even more.
- Baking Soda: Helps the cookies rise and creates the perfect texture.
- Salt: Balances the sweetness and intensifies the chocolate flavor.
- Chocolate Chips: Melty pockets of chocolate in every bite.
How to Make Triple Chocolate Cookies
If you’ve ever wished you could recreate those giant bakery cookies at home, you’re in luck. These triple chocolate cookies are surprisingly easy to make and bake up thick, soft, and packed with chocolate flavor every single time.
- Make the Dough: Beat the butter until light and fluffy. Add both sugars and mix until creamy.
- Add the Wet Ingredients: Mix in the cooled melted chocolate, eggs, and vanilla until smooth.
- Add the Dry Ingredients: Stir in the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Fold in the chocolate chips.
- Chill: Scoop the dough into balls and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Bake: Bake for 10-11 minutes until the edges are set but the centers still look slightly soft.
The Secret to Bakery-Style Chocolate Cookies
The secret to thick bakery-style cookies comes down to two simple techniques. First, chill the dough so the cookies spread more slowly in the oven. Second, split each dough ball in half and stack one piece on top of the other before baking. As the cookie bakes, the extra height creates a thicker center and that signature bakery-style look.
Tips for the Best Bakery Style Chocolate Cookies
A few simple tricks will help you get thick, fudgy, bakery-worthy cookies every time:
Measure carefully: Baking is all about precision. For the most accurate results, weigh your ingredients whenever possible.
Let the chocolate cool: Melted chocolate should be cooled to room temperature before mixing it into the dough. If it’s too warm, it can melt the butter and affect the texture.
Use a cookie scoop: Uniform dough balls ensure the cookies bake evenly and look bakery-perfect.
Add extra chocolate chips on top: Press a few chocolate chips into the tops of the dough balls before baking for that beautiful bakery-style finish.
Don’t skip the chill time: Chilling the dough before baking helps prevent spreading and creates thicker, softer cookies.
Give them room: Leave at least 2 inches between cookies on the baking sheet so they can spread properly.
Don’t overbake: The cookies should look slightly underdone in the center when you remove them from the oven. They’ll continue setting as they cool and stay perfectly fudgy.
Storage & Freezing
Store baked cookies at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 5 days.
Freeze baked cookies for up to 2 months.
Freeze unbaked cookie dough balls for up to 3 months and bake straight from frozen, adding 1-2 minutes to the baking time.
Triple Chocolate Cookies FAQs
Usually the dough wasn’t chilled long enough or too much flour was removed during measuring.
Yes! Freeze dough balls for up to 3 months and bake directly from frozen.
Dutch-process cocoa creates a darker color and richer chocolate flavor.
Use chilled dough, large cookie scoops, and avoid overbaking.
Yes! The cookie dough can be covered and refrigerated for up to 3 days before baking, making it perfect for preparing in advance.
There’s just something about a warm chocolate cookie fresh from the oven that makes everything better. Maybe it’s the melted chocolate chips, the fudgy center, or the fact that you can’t stop reaching for “just one more.” Whatever it is, these bakery-style triple chocolate cookies never last long around our house. If you’re a chocolate lover, go ahead and save this recipe now because I have a feeling you’ll be making it again and again.
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Bakery-Style Chocolate Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Unsalted Butter, softened
- ½ Cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- 4 ounces Semi-Sweet Chocolate, (2/3 cup)
- 2 Large Eggs, whisked
- 3 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- 2 Cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 Cup Cocoa Powder
- 1 teaspoon Baking Soda
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- 2 Cups Chocolate Chips, (+ extra for topping)
Instructions
- In a stand mixer, beat the butter until light and fluffy, 1 minute.1 Cup Unsalted Butter
- Add the granulated sugar and brown sugar and beat 1-2 more minutes until fluffy.½ Cup Granulated Sugar, 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- Add 2/3 cup high quality chocolate chips or baking chocolate to a small bowl. Place the bowl over a saucepan of water simmering on the stove. Stir until it is getting smooth. Let it sit for 1 minute to cool just a little. Pour the chocolate into the batter. Beat the chocolate into the dough.4 ounces Semi-Sweet Chocolate
- Add eggs and vanilla and beat well, scraping the edges and bottom of the bowl.2 Large Eggs, 3 teaspoons Vanilla Extract
- Add the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt to a bowl and whisk to combine. Beat the dry ingredients into the dough.2 Cups All-Purpose Flour, 1 Cup Cocoa Powder, 1 teaspoon Baking Soda, ½ teaspoon Salt
- Add the chocolate chips. You can use any combination, but we like semi-sweet and milk or semi-sweet and dark.2 Cups Chocolate Chips
- Cover the mixing bowl and put it in the freezer for 30 minutes to chill the dough. Take out the dough and using the America's Test Kitchen way, scoop 1/4 cup, break the dough ball in half and stack the two pieces on top of each other. Place the shaped cookies onto a plate, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 30 minutes.
- Once the dough has chilled, heat the oven to 375 degrees F.
- Bake for 10-11 minutes. DO NOT over bake.
- Cool for at least 5 minutes before removing to a cooling rack as the cookies will take a minute to set up.
Recipe Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Any thoughts on subbing half the vanilla extract for peppermint and maybe using half peppermint chips? I might try that…
Brilliant! Definitely do that! Now I need to do try that too!
Made these chocolate bakery cookies n they are sensational! When you smell the aroma of the dough you know these aren’t just cookies, they’re chocolate to the max. They are more of a celebratory treat. Followed directions exactly and the cookies are deserving of being packed n given as gifts. But will share with family n indulge myself!! Thank you for that recipe.
Thank you Greta! I should have paid you to write the post! You have a great way with words! I’m so glad you enjoyed these cookies!
Oh my…these look simply amazing…trying them soon.
Thank you Tami!! Do it! And let us know what you think!
Finally a truly chocolate cookie. Deep flavor, soft texture, and family declared them a winner. I found that it wasn’t necessary to “stack” the dough to get volume – our dough was very cold before baking and the cookies had plenty of height. Also, these are amazing for making ice cream sandwiches because they are so soft that they’re easy to bite through. Better than our local Captain Cookie store. Ours did take 12 -13 minutes to bake, but thats based on a lot of factors. Thanks for this amazing recipe!!!
Thank you so much for the feedback Kal! And great idea for the ice cream sandwiches…now I’m totally craving that!
I baked my cookies and they weren’t even close to being done. They didn’t even spread by 10 minutes. I followed directions exactly. Any suggestions?
I’m confused. It says 4oz 2/3cup semi sweet chocolate? Directions say add 2/3c…what is the 4oz? Also do you mean either semi sweet chips or baking chocolate Would be fine?
Hi Sandy! Sorry for the confusion! It should be 4oz OR 2/3 cup…those are the same amount. And yes, high quality chocolate chips or baking chocolate can be used for the chocolate you melt and pour into the batter.