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Chocolate chip cookies without brown sugar on a blue plate with a broken cookie showing the baked center
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Chocolate Chip Cookies Without Brown Sugar

White-sugar chocolate chip cookies with a vanilla-butter flavor and lightly crisp golden edges. No brown sugar, molasses or syrup required.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 26 minutes
Chilling 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 11 minutes
Servings: 16 cookies
Course: Dessert
Calories: 183

Ingredients
  

Cookie dough
  • 113 g unsalted butter ½ cup; softened, not melted
  • 150 g white granulated sugar ¾ cup
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 190 g all-purpose flour about 1½ cups plus 1 tablespoon; weigh for consistency
  • 0.5 teaspoon baking soda
  • 0.5 teaspoon fine salt
  • 150 g semisweet chocolate chips volume varies by brand; use the gram weight

Equipment

  • 2 Mixing bowls
  • 1 Hand mixer
  • 2 Large baking sheets
  • 1 Kitchen scale
  • 1 Cooling rack

Method
 

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (177°C), conventional setting, while the dough chills. Line two large baking sheets with parchment. Whisk 190 g all-purpose flour, ½ teaspoon baking soda and ½ teaspoon fine salt in a bowl.
    Whisk in a bowl of flour, baking soda and fine salt
  2. Beat 113 g softened unsalted butter with 150 g white granulated sugar for about 2 minutes, scraping the bowl, until lighter and evenly mixed. Beat in 1 large egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla just until combined.
    White granulated sugar and softened butter creamed in a glass bowl
  3. Add the flour mixture and mix on low, or fold with a spatula, just until no dry flour remains. Fold in 150 g semisweet chocolate chips. Avoid prolonged mixing after adding flour, and do not taste the raw dough.
    Pale cookie dough with semisweet chocolate chips folded in
  4. Cover and refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes, or until firm enough to portion. Divide into 16 balls of about 41 g each. Arrange up to 8 per lined sheet, leaving 2–3 inches between portions. Keep the second tray refrigerated while the first bakes.
    Chilled white-sugar cookie dough portions spaced on parchment
  5. Bake one tray at a time on the middle rack for 12–14 minutes, until edges are lightly golden and centers are set rather than wet or raw. The card allows 26 minutes for two sequential trays. Cool on the sheet for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack. Cool completely before storing. Use a cool sheet for any remaining dough.
    White-sugar chocolate chip cookies cooling on a wire rack

Notes

This recipe has not yet been kitchen-tested by Tastewiser. Photographs are AI-generated method illustrations. Baking time is a guide, not a tested guarantee. Total time includes mixing, chilling and two trays baked one after another; cooling is additional.
Use softened butter and white granulated sugar. Do not replace the sugar with honey, maple syrup or powdered sugar without a separately developed formula. If using salted butter, reduce added salt to ¼ teaspoon. Cool completely before storing airtight; enjoy within 3–4 days for best quality.
Nutrition is estimated per cookie, assuming 16 equal portions. Do not eat raw dough: it contains raw flour and egg.