Chocolate Chunk Cookie Bars – soft buttery cookie bars loaded with melty semi-sweet chocolate chunks and mini chocolate chips.
Chocolate Chunk Cookie Bars
These Chocolate Chunk Cookies Bars are so delicious! Rick chunks of semi sweet chocolate baked in a golden brown buttery cookie dough. So simple to bake and perfect for feeding a crowd. The texture of the semi sweet chocolate chunks is outrageously chocolatey and delicious, definitely a hit with chocolate lovers!
Ingredients for Chocolate Chunk Cookie Bars
- Unsalted Butter – high qualify unsalted butter for the best results
- Granulated Sugar & Golden Brown Sugar – an equal amount of granulated sugar and brown sugar make the perfect balance of flavor and texture
- Large Eggs
- Pure Vanilla Extract
- All-Purpose Flour
- Baking Soda
- Kosher Salt – if using table salt, reduce to 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- Mini Sweet-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks
How to Make Chocolate Chunk Cookie Bars
- Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Line a 9×13 baking dish with foil and spray with cooking spray.
- Cream:Â In a large bowl, cream together butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
- Mix:Â Beat in eggs and vanilla extract. Gradually add flour, baking soda, and salt; mix until just combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Bake:Â Press dough into prepared pan. Top with remaining chocolate. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until golden brown.
- Cool:Â Let cool completely in the pan before cutting and serving.
Recipe Tips
- This cookie bar dough is thick and dense, so a light colored 9×13 metal cake pan is the best pan for baking these cookie bars. Heavier ceramic baking dishes will take longer to cook and can cause the top to overly brown. A glass baking dish can work in a pinch but the bars generally don’t bake as evenly.
- I like to use my stand mixer, since the dough is pretty thick but a hand mixer will work as well.
- Transfer the cookie dough to the foil lined pan and sprinkle with more mini chocolate chips and chocolate chunks. I really go all in with the chocolate chunks on top because I love the texture and the look of the bars once they are baked. So rich and delicious!
- I like to under bake the bars just slightly and usually take them out right at the 30 minute mark.
- Cookie bars are intended to be thick and soft not hard and crispy. Just like regular cookies, they will continue baking when they are removed from the oven.
 More Cookie Bar Recipe to Try
- M&M Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- Loaded Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
- Christmas Cookie BarsÂ
- S’Mores BarsÂ
- Cherry Pie Bars
Chocolate Chunk Cookie Bars
Equipment
- 9×13 Light Colored Aluminum Baking Pan
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter at room temperature
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup firmly packed golden brown sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 3 cups of all-purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon of baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips plus more for topping
- 1 11.5 oz package of chocolate chunks reserve some for topping
- non stick cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a 9×13 baking dish with foil, leave some overhang to make removal easier.
- Spray foil generously with nonstick cooking spray.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, beat butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar together until fluffy.
- Add in eggs and vanilla extract and continue to beat.
- Lower speed of mixer and add flour, baking soda and salt, and mix until combined.
- Add 1 cup of chocolate chunks and 1 cup of mini chocolate chips and give a final stir, reserving some chocolate chunks and mini chocolate chips for topping cookie bars.
- Transfer cookie dough to prepared baking dish.
- Press remaining chocolate chunks and a sprinkle of mini chocolate chips into top of cookie dough.
- Bake 30 minutes on middle rack of oven. Adjust baking time as needed but don't over bake. Top should be a light golden brown and middle of cookie bars will still still be soft. Cookie bars will continue to bake and set as they cool.
- Let cool completely and cut. Store tightly covered to keep soft.
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Are you using unsalted or salted butter?
Look really good and easy.
These are sooo delicious!! Thanks so much for sharing!
These were soooo yummy. So much chocolate, I love it!
These cookie bars are chunky and so delicious! Everyone enjoyed it and it was easy to make. Thank you for the recipe!
My family would go crazy for this. Can’t wait to try this!
These are positively swoon-worthy! SO good!!
These bars are fantastic! The whole pan was gone in minutes!
Looks so good! Can’t wait to try this with friends.
Great easy recipe to follow. I had received a tin of peppermint bark over the holidays and did not really know what I was going to do with it. So as soon as I saw your recipe I thought this would be a perfect time to break up this peppermint bark and use it. It was a huge hit everybody loved it. I will definitely use this recipe again.
I couldn’t believe how fast the batch I made disappeared! My crew is already asking for more. Delicious!
My family and I loved this recipe! Definitely will make this again! Very delicious and yummy!
Super good! Something about the different size chocolate chips, makes this so extra delicious.
I love making these. So chocolatey and easy!
Mine turned out more cake like than cookie. But they are tasty and not too sweet. Recipe is easy to follow.
These were so easy to make and came out delicious! Taste test approved by my kids. I added milk and semi sweet chocolate chips then sprinkled M&M’s on top.