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Gold Medal's Extraordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies

Modified: Mar 15, 2025 · Published: Oct 16, 2008 by Anna · This post may contain affiliate links · 29 Comments

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Gold Medal's Extraordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies, also known as Mary's Chocolate Chip Cookies, is one of my favorite recipes. The cookies are medium thickness, chewy rather than cakey, dense and soft. They always bake up with a nice shape, and can be made small, medium size or large. The original recipe makes quite a large yield, but it has an even number of eggs and is easy to halve, which I almost always do.

extraordinary chocolate chip cookies also known as Mary's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mary's Chocolate Chip Cookies

I originally found the recipe on the back of a Gold Medal brand flour bag and have been making it for years. One thing I learned along the way is that in some circles, the recipe goes by Mary's Chocolate Chip Cookies, named after a Betty Crocker test kitchen employee who helped develop the recipe. I'm guessing she made these cookies hundreds of times with little changes, so thank you Mary for all the testing. This is one recipe that is hard to screw up.

Extraordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies Butter Type

Instead of salted butter, I use unsalted butter and increase the salt. And rather than use plain butter, I sometimes opt for the European style, pasture or organic butter. It makes a difference in these cookies in terms of taste and texture because these butters have slightly more fat and less moisture which makes for a dryer dough and a thicker cookie. But you don't have to use the special butter because the cookies are really good with just about any brand.

Chocolate Chip Cookie

Weigh the Flour

Four cups is a lot of flour, so if your cups are packed too heavily with flour you'll be using too much. For best results, weigh out about 510 grams of flour (for thinner cookies) or 550 grams for slightly thicker cookies.  I usually go somewhere in between.  If you don't have a scale, make sure to stir the flour very well before measuring.

broken chocolate chip cookie

Use Good Chocolate Chips or Chunks

The cookies in the photo below were made with Scharffen Berger chunks. The chunks were awesome, but I usually Guittard or Ghirardelli bittersweet or semisweet chips.

extraordinary chocolate chip cookies
Extraordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mixing Large Amount of Cookie Dough

This recipe makes a lot of dough and sometimes it's difficult to get all of the flour mixture incorporated without over-mixing.  One thing you can do is when the dough is almost fully blended, add the chips, then dump it onto a big pastry mat or clean flat surface and mix by hand by gently kneading it all together.  I sometimes smash it all into a big rectangle and cut the dough into chunks.

Half Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies

I've added the half batch version to the "Notes" section at the bottom. Here are the gram measurements for the half batch: 175 grams butter 12.5T 120 grams granulated sugar ½ cup plus 2 T. 120 grams brown sugar ½ cup plus 2 T. 7 grams vanilla (1 ½ teaspoons) 50 grams beaten egg (1 egg) 1 teaspoon baking soda ¼ to ¾ teaspoon of salt depending on whether your butter is salted 255 to 275 grams flour (2 cups), depending on how thick and soft you like your cookies.

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Recipe

Gold Medal Extraordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies

Gold Medal's Extraordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies

Anna
Extraordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies are based on the recipe from the Gold Medal Flour bag
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 12 minutes mins
Total Time 22 minutes mins
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 72 cookies

Ingredients
 

  • 3 sticks butter softened (350 grams)
  • 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar (240 grams)
  • 1 ¼ cups packed brown sugar (240 grams)
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt increase to 1 ½ if using unsalted butter
  • 4 cups all-purpose flour (510 to 550 grams)
  • 24 oz semisweet chocolate chips (4 cups)

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350°F. Have ready two rimmed baking sheets (ungreased).
  • In large bowl, beat butter, sugars, vanilla and eggs with electric mixer on medium speed or with spoon until light and fluffy. Stir in baking soda and salt until thoroughly mixed, then add flour and stir until thick. Stir in chocolate chips. Makes about 74 ounces of dough
  • On ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough with a medium cookie scoop or rounded tablespoons.
  • Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until light brown (centers will be soft). Cool 1 to 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.

Notes

I like to portion out the cookie dough with a medium size cookie scoop, chill the scooped portions (covered with plastic) until they are very firm, then put the scooped portions in a big freezer bag and bake as needed. The cookies are best when baked with dough that has been chilled for about 24 hours, so I recommend keeping the portioned dough balls in the refrigerator for the first 24 hours and transferring to the freezer for storage. That is, if you decide not to bake them all at once!
f you just want a half batch, here are the measurements.

Extraordinary Chocolate Chip Cookies from Gold Medal Half Batch

  • 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter (175 grams), softened
  • ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons light brown sugar (120 grams)
  • ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar (120 grams)
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon salt (if using salted butter, decrease to ¼ teaspoon)
  • 2 cups (260 grams) all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups chocolate chips
Keyword Chocolate Chip, Extraordinary
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

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  1. Anna says

    June 25, 2024 at 6:20 am

    Hi Carol,
    I think next time she needs to use less flour. The refrigeration only improves the cookies. If they are not baking right, she could bring the dough balls back to room temperature and bake from room temp. I don't always do this, but if you have time to bring to room temp they might bake more evenly. But overall, I think the issue is she just used too much flour OR whatever flour she used was too dry. That happens. The recipe says 510 to 550, so maybe go with 510 grams next time. Or have her try a half batch. This is a great recipe. The dough is rather dry, but the cookies bake up nicely. Also, your suggestion of just baking them right away is a good one too. You don't absolutely have to chill dough, it just improves overall texture. What it come down to is she used an ingredient that made the dough too dry. So there was probably too much flour. Maybe the eggs were on the small side. Her brown sugar could have been dry as well. Email me at anna at cookie madness dot net if you want more recipe suggestions or to troubleshoot. Have your daughter try a half batch and use less flour.

  2. Carol Scott says

    June 24, 2024 at 11:50 pm

    Daughter made this recipe and for some reason the dough turned out clumpy.
    she placed the dough balls in the refrigerator and they solified and did not cook well
    I suggested no refrigeration and to bake without refrigeration. any thoughts on this.
    Thankyou, Carol Scott

  3. Angela says

    March 05, 2012 at 8:03 pm

    I make these all the time. If yours turned out flatter, it may be due to size. I made mine very large - the dough is walnut sized. I use Ghiardelli chips, too. Oddly enough, although the recipe was on the back of Gold Medal flour, I found they turned out much better with King Arthur unbleached flour. I'm very particular about my ingredients. 🙂

  4. connie feliciello says

    October 07, 2010 at 10:55 pm

    The first time i saw this recipe for extraordinary chocolate chip cookies, I made them!!! Oh my god they are just soooo good...do you have a similar recipe for oatmeal cookies????

  5. Sara says

    August 03, 2010 at 4:23 pm

    This is by far the BEST chocolate chip cookie recipe ever! I always use this recipe and everyone loves the cookies I bake!

  6. Katherine says

    April 30, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    Yes, these are extraordinary chocolate chip cookies! I made half a batch yesterday, and now wish I made the whole batch. Thanks for sharing this great recipe.

  7. Bakerista says

    October 20, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    Wow, your site is A M A Z I N G!! I will definitely be coming back! And congrats on your win! That's so awesome! 🙂

  8. danielle says

    October 18, 2008 at 10:42 am

    Great pic. of the cookies. Did u chill the dough first? Enjoy NYC!!!!!!! R u going to Levain??

  9. Anna says

    October 18, 2008 at 6:25 am

    Priscilla,

    That's interesting! I didn't know the recipe was that old. This recipe is definitely a keeper.

    Also, I used Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate chips.

  10. Priscilla says

    October 17, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Anna- I really like this recipe and have made it many times. Years ago, when I clipped the recipe off the GM flour bag, it was called "Mary's Chocolate Chip Cookies". The headnote said "Mary Bartz, resident cookie expert in the Betty Crocker Kitchens, is famous for these cookies. On special days when she brings them to the office, her cookie jar empties within minutes. They are everyone's favorite!" The only difference is that the old recipe made only 3 1/2 dozen and baked them for 12 to 15 minutes. It used "rounded measuring tablespoonfuls" of dough.

    Congratulations on your great win in Domino. The cookies sound delicious and I hope to try them as soon as I can get some tangerines.

  11. cookienurse says

    October 17, 2008 at 10:03 am

    Congratulations, on winning the contest, Anna!
    You really have incredible talent!! I was wondering, your chocolate chips look fantastic in the photo. What brand of chips did you use? Ghiradelli's?

  12. Anna says

    October 17, 2008 at 7:42 am

    Thanks Jen!

  13. Jen says

    October 17, 2008 at 7:40 am

    Hi Anna,
    The link to the recipe is currently not working. I think the problem may be that the "h" for the http part of the address is missing. I think adding the "h" should take care of the problem.

    Jen

  14. Sara says

    October 17, 2008 at 7:35 am

    These look really delicious. Have a great trip!

  15. Alexandra Bruskoff says

    October 17, 2008 at 7:49 am

    Hi Anna,
    Have great trip to my hometown of NYC. If you have time, check out the banana cream with Nilla wafers from Magnolia Bakeshop- It's ridiculously delicious (I think I just read that they just opened another shop in midtown?). When I go, I bring an extra bag of Nilla wafers with me so I can add more into my pudding- sad but true! Enjoy!
    Alexandra

  16. Therese B. says

    October 17, 2008 at 6:08 am

    Anna!

    Congrats on your winning!! YAHOO...the recipe looks mmmm...mmm...good! Tangerine peel...very interesting/very cool! I will be trying that out for sure!

    ENJOY NYC...! Think...Levain..THINK...LEVAIN.
    This is my e-mail hypnosis!!! tee hee! I hope you get to check out some great bakeries!
    Regardless..enjoy.

  17. Sue says

    October 16, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    Mmmmmm! Chocolate and tangerine, with a little white chocolate! I just looked at the winning recipe and it sounds wonderful. Great job Anna!

  18. Sue says

    October 16, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Thanks Katrina! I'll go take a look.

  19. Katrina says

    October 16, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    The winning Domino Sugar cookie contest recipe is already on their site.
    http://www.dominosugar.com/recipes/recipe_detail.asp?ID=785
    Yeah, Anna!

  20. Sue says

    October 16, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    Those are really attractive cookies, and they must be good, because it seems that you don't usually have a problem tasting and then moving them on.

    Congratulations on your win! I don't think Domino sugar is distributed here. When it appears on the bags give a heads up and I'll see if they post it on their website, assuming of course that they have one.

  21. bakingblonde says

    October 16, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Those look perfect, if they were in my house I would gain 80lbs!!

  22. Katrina says

    October 16, 2008 at 3:14 pm

    I was thinking that maybe Levain's in on 81st St., but it's on about 74th, I think, so it can't be that. Hmmm, there's got to be something to that! Maybe you should check out 81st while you're in NY. Have a great time! Can't wait to hear!

  23. VeggieGirl says

    October 16, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Ooooh, yum.

  24. Anna says

    October 16, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    Hi Judy,

    Yes! I won that contest. I always feel braggy when I post that stuff, but I did win and was extremely happy. The cookie recipe should appear on Domino Sugar bags very soon. It's a spin on double chocolate cookies.

    Katrina, I thought of that today too. Why 81 and not just 80?

  25. Katrina says

    October 16, 2008 at 2:52 pm

    And we probably haven't had enough cookies lately! 😉 Wow, 81 pounds, interesting that it was 8-1, not just 80. Every pounds counts! These do look yummy!

  26. judi0044 says

    October 16, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    I'm traveling again and I saw your name while I was reading a magazine on the plane. Did I miss a post that you had won the Domino Sugar and C&H Sugar Recipe Contest. Congrats! It was the Great American Bake Sale - No Kid Hungry which I seem to recall reading about somewhere.

  27. Amy says

    October 16, 2008 at 2:44 pm

    I bought a bag of Gold Medal flour this weekend and saw that recipe and thought of making them. Maybe I will this weekend.

  28. clumbsycookie says

    October 16, 2008 at 2:32 pm

    81 pounds in one night! Scary! I don't think we can never have too much ccc, so keep'em coming! I virtualy ate a couple, so how many pounds would that be?

  29. snookydoodle says

    October 16, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    this look so so good. Cookies how can you resist these delicious cookies. I don t blame you for wanting to eat ten more 🙂

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