An Easy "Chewy-Cookie" Recipe?

Question

I'd like a good basic recipe for a chewy type of cookie?

Answer 1

I tried lots of recipes before I found this one.  They are wonderful!

Chewy Sugar Cookies

1 ¼ c. butter    

2 c. sugar

2 eggs    

2 t. vanilla

½ t. salt

1 t. baking soda

2 ¾ c. flour

¼ c. sugar for decoration

Preheat oven to 350°.  In a large bowl, cream together butter and 2 cups sugar until light and fluffy.  Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla.  Gradually stir in the dry ingredients until just blended.  Roll the dough into walnut sized balls and roll the balls in the remaining ¼ cup of sugar.  Place cookies 2" apart onto ungreased cookie sheets and flatten slightly.

Bake for 8-10 minutes, until lightly browned at the edges.  Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

Wait!  These are really good, too.

Ooey Gooey Lemon Cookies

8 oz. cream cheese

1 - 18½ oz. lemon cake mix

½ c. softened butter

¼ c. powdered sugar

1 egg

Cream together cream cheese & butter.  Stir in egg & vanilla.  Add cake mix & stir until well blended.  Refrigerate for 30 min.  Roll into 1" balls & refrigerate for 30 more min.  Roll balls in powdered sugar.  Bake at 350° for 10-13 min.

(Baking with an Air Bake cookie sheet & parchment paper works great.)

Answer 2

This chocolate chip cookie requires bread flour because bread flour has a longer gluten strand than all purpose flour. Hence the name: The Chewy.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton...

Answer 3

Here are three for you.  The first two start out crisp on the outside, softer in the middle, but with storage in a tightly covered container will be soft and chewy throughout.  The chocolate cookie in particular is one my son nick-named Ooey-gooey Chocolate Cookies when he was small!

GINGER SPARKLERS

A soft cookie, great at Christmas-time.  These cookies flatten out when baking and develop a crinkly surface.

2 cups flour

2 tsp. soda

1/2 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. ginger

1/2 tsp. cloves

pinch nutmeg

1 cup brown sugar, packed

3/4 cup margarine or butter

1/4 cup molasses

1 egg

granulated sugar

Combine dry ingredients.  Cream brown sugar, margarine, molasses, egg.  Add dry ingredients.  Shape into balls and roll in granulated sugar.  Bake 2 inches apart, ungreased sheet, 375 degrees F., about 10 minutes.

CHOCOLATE SOFTIES

6 tbsp. cocoa

4 tbsp. melted margarine or butter

3/4 cup margarine or butter

1 and 1/2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup sour milk

1 tsp. vanilla

3 and 1/2 cups flour

3/4 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp. salt

2 cups cornflakes, slightly crushed and/or 1/2 cup finely chopped nuts

Combine dry ingredients.  Combine cocoa with melted margarine.  Cream margarine, sugar, eggs.  Add cocoa mixture, sour milk, vanilla.  Blend.  Stir in dry mixture.  Drop by teaspoonfuls well apart, ungreased sheet.  Bake at 400 degrees F., about 15 minutes.  Watch carefully, as these cookies burn easily.  Makes about 4 dozen.  

JUMBO RAISIN COOKIES

This recipe makes a lot of cookies!  Soft, chewy -- kids love them.

1 cup water

2 cups raisins

1 cup shortening

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp. vanilla

4 and 1/2 cups flour

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking soda

1 and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp. allspice

Boil raisins and water for 5 minutes.  Cream sugar, shortening, eggs, vanilla.  Add cooled raisins and water.  Add dry ingredients.  Bake 20 minutes at 375 degrees F.  Makes about 9 dozen large, soft cookies.