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Smiley Face Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
16 mins
Total Time
31 mins
 

Take a delicious chocolate chip cookie to the next level and add a cute smile to it!

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chocolate chip cookie, smiling cookie
Servings: 16
Author: Beth Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 12 tablespoons unsalted butter (170 grams), softened
  • 1 cup packed brown sugar (208 grams)
  • ½ cup granulated sugar (100 grams)
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 2 ⅛ cup all purpose flour (272 grams), unbleached is best
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • 12 ounces semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate chips (340 grams)
  • 36 Jumbo Candy Eyes
  • 4 ounces dark confectionery coating (113 grams), melted
Instructions
  1. Cream butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar and beat on medium speed for about a minute until well blended. Add egg, egg yolk, and vanilla and beat until fully incorporated.
  2. Mix flour, salt, and baking soda together then incorporate it into the wet ingredients.
  3. Fold chocolate chips into the batter.
  4. Scoop out 16-18 cookies, about ¼ cup of dough for each. Place cookies on parchment paper lined baking sheets. Refrigerate for 30-60 minutes.
  5. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
  6. Bake cookies one tray at a time, for 12-16 minutes. The cookies should begin to set around the edges, be light golden brown, yet still be soft in the center.
  7. Allow cookies to cool completely.

  8. Attach two candy eyes to each cookie using melted confectionery coating.

  9. Pour remaining coating into a squeeze bottle or small zip top bag.

  10. Pipe smiles onto cookies. Let the candy coating harden.

Recipe Notes

Store your chocolate chip cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.

You can bake and then freeze these cookies for up to 3 months, but do not decorate them first. Decorate them once the cookies have thawed.