For those of you who are new to Something Swanky (or maybe you’ve just missed these posts), I’m working on a Chocolate Chip Cookie Experiment that basically boils down to me trying as many chocolate chip cookie recipes as I can get my hands on (I’m shooting for 52, 1 recipe per week for a year)! And then, of course, culminating the experiment with an ultimate chocolate chip cookie recipe to top all others… at least that’s the idea 😉

If you’d like to see all the other recipes I’ve tried so far, click here.

Today’s recipe comes from Allrecipes.com. For years before Pinterest and before I started blogging, Allrecipes.com was my go-to for recipes. I always liked that you could check out ratings and reviews from other people who had tried the recipe.

Of course, these days, I typically search Pinterest or a reliable blog for a recipe instead. But I’ll still glance through allrecipes.com from time to time. I think those recipes that have a 4-5 star rating with tons of reviewers are almost always worth taking the time to check out, and I definitely thought it would be worthwhile to include their top-rated Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe in my experiment.

I was pretty pleased to find that this recipe closely resembles my current go-to recipe that I’ve used for years, right down to dissolving the baking soda before mixing. I really, really liked these. I felt like the buttery/salty flavors were perfectly in tune with the rest of the cookie flavors, and the texture was just right too– soft and chewy (maybe even slightly underbaked) in the middle, with a good crunch at the edges.

With a 4.5 star rating out of over 6.5K reviews, I’d say this cookie is well-deserving of it’s rank!

As you may know, chocolate chip cookies are my very favorite dessert of all time. As evidenced by my quest for the most perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe…

Given my more-than-slight obsession with all things CCC, I was incredibly excited to try out this recipe for Biscoff Chocolate Chip Cookies for a couple of reasons. First… Biscoff. That’s enough in itself to be excited over! But also– I’m excited because this recipe comes from the first cookbook of a good friend of mine here in the blogging world: The Biscoff Cookie & Spread Cookbook by Katrina Bahl (In Katrina’s Kitchen).

And let me tell you folks, there doesn’t seem to be a bad recipe in this book. It has literally taken me weeeeeeeeeeks to decide which recipe I wanted to make share with you guys. The Double Chocolate Biscoff Bread, Biscoff Sheet Cake, and Biscoff Cinnamon Rolls were all heavy contenders. And then my husband and I went back and forth over the Biscoff Cloud Cookies and the Biscoff Chocolate Chip Cookies forever– it all looks amazing!

I finally made the executive decision on the chocolate chip cookies, figuring they’re a perfect addition to my Chocolate Chip Cookie Experiment anyway.

It was good decision making on my part. Biscoff and chocolate chip cookies definitely belong together.