Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
These double chocolate chip cookies are rich, ultra soft and chewy. The secret ingredient to these is cream cheese! Cream cheese chocolate cookies are the way to go, folks. Trust me. Adding cream cheese in cookies will be a game changer for you!
If you love chocolate and fudgy desserts, then you’ll love these cookies! They are perfectly fudgy. They taste like brownie cookies! It’s the best chocolate cookie recipe to satisfy every chocolate lover’s sweet tooth. If you want a cookie recipe with a little less chocolate, make sure you try my brown butter chocolate chip cookies. It’s my take on the traditional chocolate chip cookie but with a boost of flavor!

Why This Recipe Works
- If you’ve never used cream cheese in cookies before, the cream cheese adds a nice flavor to the cookie. It also has a higher melting point, so when these cream cheese chocolate cookies are baked in the oven, they don’t spread or thin out as much as regular cookies made with butter.
- You don’t need to chill this cookie dough. A handful of my cookie recipes require chilling the dough, but this one doesn’t need it. 🙌🏼 These soft chocolate cookies can be made, baked, and in your mouth within 20 minutes!
- Use these double chocolate chip cookies in my cookie ice cream sandwich recipe.
Ingredients

- Cocoa Powder: The double chocolate cookie becomes double when we add cocoa powder and chocolate chips to the dough. There’s nothing like a chocolate chocolate chip cookie to hit home the indulgent flavor!
- Granulated Sugar: Many cookie recipes will use both granulated and brown sugar. This one just uses the granulated sugar since we have the cream cheese for texture and flavor.
- Cream Cheese: Adding cream cheese to cookies is a huge win! It makes them thick, chewy and super soft!
- Vegetable Oil: One commenter, Laurie, said she substituted butter for oil: “I did substitute melted butter for the oil because…butter. They are incredible!” So you’re welcome to give that a try if you’d like. However, I use vegetable oil in this recipe. The oil provides moisture and keeps the cookies moist.
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips: I like semi-sweet because these cookies are dark and rich, which pairs well with the semi-sweet chocolate chips over milk.
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Combine the dry ingredients. In a medium bowl whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Cream the sugar and cream cheese. Mix the sugar and cream cheese until smooth and creamy.
- Then add oil, egg, and vanilla extract and mix again. The oil adds moisture and a nice richness to the cookie.
- Combine wet + dry. Once the wet ingredients are fully mixed together, add the dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Stir or fold in the chocolate chips. The dough will be thick.
- Scoop. Use a 2 tablespoon sized cookie scoop to portion out the dough. Place the cookie dough balls on a baking sheet that has been lined with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.

- Bake. Bake at 350°F for 9-11 minutes or until set. Be careful not to over bake the cookies. Over baked cookies turn out to be dry (and hard)… we want to avoid this!
- Once the cookies have baked, remove them from the oven and transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Recipe Tips
Let the cream cheese come to room temperature. This will make it easier to cream with the sugar and will reduce the chance of clumps.
Use parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet for quicker clean up and to further reduce the chance of cookies spreading while baking. However, thanks to the cream cheese in this dough, there won’t be much spreading. 👏🏻
Check on the cookies at the 8-minute mark just to make sure you don’t over bake them. The recommended bake time is 9-11 minutes, however, some ovens are different and altitude can have an effect as well. We don’t want these cookies overdone or else they won’t be as soft and chewy as they should be!
These double chocolate cream cheese cookies can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 1 day, but any longer they should be stored in the refrigerator due to the cream cheese in the cookies.
Variations
Switch out the semi-sweet chocolate chips for:
- Peanut butter chips
- Butterscotch chips
- Mint chips
- White chocolate chips

FAQs
Adding another egg will increase the chewiness of the cookie.
Thanks to the cream cheese in this dish, these cookies won’t spread like traditional chocolate chip cookies can. Cream cheese has a higher melting point, so when these double chocolate chip cookies are baked in the oven, they don’t spread or thin out as much as regular cookies made with butter. However, using parchment paper or a silicone baking sheet can help reduce the risk of spreading since you aren’t adding additional oil or butter to the pan. Chilling cookie dough also helps reduce spreading.
Yes. However you’ll get a much denser cookie. Eggs work as a binder in doughs and also provide moisture to the dough so it is softer and isn’t as hard.
For this recipe, I highly recommend not skipping or substituting the cream cheese! It may seem weird and unusual, but trust me! It’s amazing.
Yes! You can also freeze this dough. Freeze the dough in an airtight container for up to 2 months. Remove the dough from the freezer and let thaw until not frozen, but still cold. You want to store this dough in the fridge due to the cream cheese. For freezing these cookies, store in a Ziplock bag in the fridge for up to a month.

Other Delicious Cookie Recipes
- Chocolate Orange Cookies
- Soft Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Crumbl Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Small Batch No-Bake Cookies
- Brownie Mix Cookies
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Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup natural cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 7 oz cream cheese, softened
- 1 large egg
- 1/3 cup + 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Set aside.
- In a medium size bowl whisk the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In the bowl of your stand mixer combine the sugar and cream cheese. Beat on medium speed until creamy, about 2 minutes. Add the egg, oil, and vanilla. Mix until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix until combined. Add the chocolate chips and mix.
- Use a 2 tablespoon cookie scoop and scoop out dough. Place on the cookie sheet leaving about 2 inches between each cookie.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes or until set. Be careful not to over bake!
- Remove from the oven and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Notes
- Peanut butter chips
- Butterscotch chips
- Mint chips
- White chocolate chips
This post was first published April 28, 2018 and has been updated with new pictures and clearer instructions on January 16, 2020.

42 Comments on “Double Chocolate Chip Cookies”
The cream cheese is a game changer in this recipe! Makes them so fudgy and thick and delicious!
Chocolate overload!!!! Love these cookies.
Chocolate ❤️! Thanks for the great review!
Boy are these delectable! I make these so often that I’ve nicknamed them ‘brookies’. They’re the best parts of a brownie and a cookie mixed together.
I can already SEE your expertise! My favorite cookie is Trippple Chocolate chip because I worked at a cookie shop called “Blue Chip” in San Jose, in Valley Fair mall in the mid 80’s. Strangely, Ms. Feilds dominated the field and Blue Chip moved to San Francisco, then out of the city… Really choice cookies in general !! Can’t wait to try your two cookie recipes. Looks Very Delicious !!
Turned out fantastic and are my boyfriend’s new favourite!
They’re one of our favorites too! So happy you both enjoyed them!
These are so good! I’ve made them a few times and I keep coming back. The cream cheese makes them so soft.
We love them too! Some of the softest cookies ever!
My grandkids loved this cookies.
There are 3 things that I altered
1 use only 1 1/2 cup of sugar
2 use 1/4 cup white chocolate chips, 1/4 cup dark chocolate chips and 1/2 cup. Semi sweet chocolate chips.
3 bake for 10 minutes
All in all its a great recipe plus no butter. Will make this again.
Thanks
Made these for Valentine’s day and added heart sprinkles. My girls and I loved them! 🙂 Cookies had a good chocolate flavor. Only issue I had was my cookies stuck to the bottom of the silicone mats. Should I have let it cool more before moving to wire rack? It also could have been from the apple sauce substitute I used for the oil.
What a great idea to add sprinkles to the cookies!
You are correct, the cookies sticking to the mat was from the applesauce substitute. The oil prevents this from happening.
I will add a note to the recipe card mentioning this so that others won’t have this issue in the future.
Thanks!
These are the best cookies! Grandkids and made a batch to send to the Dad overseas. He hasn’t even received the first batch yet and we started a second! A new favorite for sure.
This makes me so happy to hear!
I just made these. I was not sure about the cream cheese but tried it anyway. I did substitute melted butter for the oil because…butter. They are incredible! These are going in my real recipe book and will be a permanent addition to Christmas cookies.
I know, right?! Cream cheese makes people skeptical, but it’s soooo good! Makes the cookies really chewy and thick. So glad you loved these!! Thanks for taking the time to comment.
These were so easy to make. My boys loved these cookies…they thought the cookies were brownies because they’re so soft and chewy 🙂
I used brown sugar so I reduced the sugar to 1.5 cups … even then they were a little too sweet for our taste so I might go with 1 cup next time.
I also used coconut oil instead of vegetable oil. And added some dried orange zest for a Christmas-ey feel. The orange zest actually took some of the sweetness away.
Great recipe! Thank you … I can see this one being baked again and again … and again!
Glad you enjoyed them! I love that you added orange zest, I’m actually posting a chocolate orange cookie recipe soon!
I just have to say a big thank you Whitney! I am NOT a baker…at all, in spite of my love to cook.
My son texted me from school and ask to bake 24 big cookies for a bake sale to be held later that day. It was a fundraiser for a rather prestigious School club of which he is the President.
I was nearly panicking, but I looked through the cookies of my few favorite bloggers, and found this beauty! (Part of my panic was that I had no butter or margarine in the house, and no time to shop).
These cookies are AMAZING! I made 3 tablespoon cookies, while we’re nice and big. So delicious. They sold it a $3-5 dollar donation, and we’re the first things to go! My son was so proud of me. It’s my go-to cookie for everything now. Love your blog!!
Lydia Jones
Lydia, you are so kind! Thanks for the nice compliment! I’m so glad you enjoy my blog. And I’m happy to hear the cookies were a huge hit!! ❤️❤️❤️
Do you know how I could replace the cocoa powder with Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa Powder? I want to make double dark chocolate chip cookies but if I use the original recepie with the dark chocolate cocoa powder it will be too bitter.
I haven’t made it using Special Dark Cocoa Powder. You may not need AS much of the cocoa powder. One thing you do want to be aware of when switching out natural cocoa powder with special dark (a Dutch process cocoa) is that you’ll need a bit more baking powder. It will take me some time to test and come up with a double dark chocolate chip cookie recipe. I’m sorry I don’t have a lot of helpful tips to give you! However, please come back and tell me how it goes when you use the dark cocoa powder! I’d love to hear!
These have become my go to cookie recipe! Seriously delicious, and a real crowd pleaser. Thank you!
So happy to hear this!!
I made them this morning there amazing I put 1 cup of sugar and baked them for 15-16 mins and there so good! My husband doesn’t like chocolate but he said these are so good!
So glad to hear this Stella! Thanks for commenting and letting me know you made them! ❤️
Recipe in grams please!
Just made these and they are amazing!! Great recipe with lots of chocolate!!
So glad you liked them Katie! And thank you for taking the time to comment and tell me!
What a delicious cookie! I’m all about MORE chocolate! 🙂
Thanks Courtney!
Amazing recipe.
BTW, your pictures are stunning.
Thank you so much Stefani!! ❤️
These cookies look and sound amazing! There’s nothing like a good chocolate chip cookie!
Thanks Natalie!