🍪 Ultimate Chocolate Chunk Cookies with Melty Center

This is a step-by-step cookie recipe with detailed instructions and helpful process photos, so you can easily follow along and recreate these bakery-style cookies at home.

These cookies are thick, soft in the middle, slightly crispy on the edges – and filled with extra chocolate in every bite.

I used chocolate chunks instead of chips (because honestly: the more chocolate, the better 😍) and I even hid a piece of baking chocolate inside each cookie.

When you break them open… melted chocolate flows out. Pure heaven.

Ingredients (6–8 large cookies)

• 360 g flour
• 145 g brown sugar
• 90 g white sugar
• 130 g butter
• 7 g baking powder
• 7 g baking soda
• 5 g salt
• 2 eggs
• 2 packs chocolate chunks
• 2 small cube-sized pieces per cookie of dark baking chocolate (for the molten center)

Instructions

1. Brown the butter

Melt half of the butter (65 g) in a pan over medium heat until golden brown. Let it cool slightly.

Mix with the remaining butter.

2. Mix wet ingredients

Add brown sugar and white sugar to the butter.

Stir in the eggs and mix until smooth and creamy.

3. Add dry ingredients

In a separate bowl combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.

Add to the butter mixture and mix until just combined (don’t overmix!).

4. Add chocolate

Fold in the chocolate chunks generously.

Here’s the rule: more chocolate = better cookies.

5. Chill the dough

Refrigerate the dough for 30–60 minutes. This improves texture and flavor.

6. Shape & fill

Preheat oven to 185°C (365°F).

Form large cookie balls.

Press two small cube-sized pieces of baking chocolate into the center of each ball and seal well.

7. Bake

Place on a baking tray with space between them.

Bake for 12–15 minutes until the edges are golden but the center still looks slightly soft.

Let them rest 10 minutes on the tray – they will finish setting.

Why I love these cookies 🤍

I truly believe cookies should be soft, thick and full of chocolate.

Adding that hidden piece in the center makes every bite exciting – especially when the chocolate melts after baking.

Break one open while it’s still warm… and you’ll see why this version is next level.