Crazy Cookie Dough: One Cookie Recipe with Endless Variations!

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When you're baking cookies, this easy cookie dough is the absolute perfect blank canvas for all of your favorite cookie flavors and cookie ideas. It has the perfect balance of brown sugar, white sugar, melted butter, and salt. The result is wonderfully decadent bakery-style cookies that are crispy around the edges, buttery, and chewy gooey cookies in the center, and rival Pillsbury cookie dough.

Why make one batch of the same cookies when you can make any flavor variety you like? My Crazy Cookie Dough is the only Cookie Recipe you will ever need to make endless flavor variations. Make the Best-Ever Cookies including Chocolate Chip Cookies, Birthday Cake Cookies, Salted Caramel Cookies and any flavor you like with this one dough! So let’s get baking!

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro to crazy cookie dough
0:50 Add and mix ingredients in a large bowl
1:28 Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl
1:56 Mix the dry and wet ingredients together
2:05 Place in the fridge for 2 hours
2:23 Quarter cup scoops will make 10-12 cookies
2:58 Mix and match cookie toppings
3:15 Chocolate chip cookie recipe
3:41 Peanut butter cookie recipe
4:16 Nutella and hazelnut cookie recipe
4:45 S'mores cookie recipe
5:25 Birthday cake cookie recipe
5:57 Double chocolate cookie recipe
6:46 Instagram Live chooses salted caramel cookie recipe
8:03 Instagram Live chooses oatmeal raisin cookie recipe
8:48 Cookie review
9:11 Place on a baking tray and place in the oven
9:40 The finished cookies
10:11 Any other cookie flavor ideas?

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[projecthiraeon]

1 cup (8oz/226g) butter, melted and cooled to room temperature

1¼ cup (10oz/280g) brown sugar

¾ cup (6oz/170g) white sugar

2½ cups (12 1/2oz/355g) all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 large eggs

Just the base cookie recipe

[catrece]

I made cookies fir the first time using this recipe with my own add ins and actually WON the cookie bake off at my church. Thank you Gemma❤

[nullbyte]

Here's something I learned while working in foods at Disneyland/DCA: If you want a huge cookie that takes 1/2 cup of cookie dough and your dough is as melty as this one is, flatten it out to a little under 1/2 the height of the measuring cup, then poke your finger in the middle and hollow that middle out till the resulting ring is a "doughnut" approx equal to the height of 1/2 of the measuring cup (the hole should be about 1' to 1 1/2" diameter or so, it's not exact). Then put it in the freezer.

Take out a frozen cookie whenever you want and bake it according to the directions. It *should* melt down to fill that hole and cook evenly so you don't have an overcooked outside with an undercooked middle.

When I worked there, I always wondered why the cookie dough we baked came in relatively thick rings. And then one day I asked the Master Baker (stop giggling. Every time someone giggles at this real title, their next brownie will come out burnt) about this and that's when I learned how places like this are able to sell huge cookies that are baked all the way through without burning the edges, and yet are nice and chewy.

[sadafs]

i m glad i found this recipe during qurantine. made them with my 7 yrs old daughter. it was so much fun. thankyou so much for the recipe.

[jonaozo]

Made these again yesterday. Neighbor gave me a container of snacks Christmas Eve,
thought I would return the container with something 'special', this immediately came to mind.
Caramel, coconut, pecan halves, chunk chocolate, peppermint bark, raspberry jam, espresso M&M's,
coarse pink salt, confectioners sugar, mixed dried berries, mini marshmallows, and more.
So many make more tonight, the few I kept disappeared [somewhere].
Threw in a 1/2lb pullman loaf of cinnamon raisin bread, and a 1lb pullman loaf of butter bread.
Thanks again for your recipes and God bless you.

[RevFaithandFlow]

I LOVE this recipe. I made it on Tuesday and have been making 2-4 cookies each day to try it out. The dough has only gotten better each day from resting. The best combo of crunchy edge and gooey center was letting it rest for three days. The first day after an hour in the fridge, the cookies were pretty thin. By day three, they were the perfect size for me. It’s my new favorite recipe and just in time for Christmas baking! Super easy, and simple enough to half. Highly recommended.

[HowTasty]

I like classic and easy recipes...everyone loves cookies!! :)

[mesayhabte]

The best cookie recipe. I added cinnamon and ginger powder with the wet ingredients and it tasted absolutely amazing.

[simonepilat]

I've tried it the second time and they are soooo delicious 😍
I've made Cranberry White Chocolate
Peanutbutter Chocolate w/ Peanut Chunks and for the last one I used
milk chocolate, Semi-sweet chocolate
dark chocolate, cocoa powder
and nougat filled milk chocolate

[olives]

So glad I found this video six years later! Better late than never. Thank you for posting this.

[calinana]

I love this recipe! I whipped up a double batch and tossed in raisins, pecans, a touch of peanut butter, a dash of cinnamon and a dash of nutmeg.... I kept the dough in the frig for a week and baked them as we craved a “Fresh Baked Cookie) These were so delicious and baked up beautifully!
This is going in my special recipe journal, thank you so much!
Next I’ll be trying your bread, and muffin recipes.

[maigrace]

Love your recipe! I won a cookie contest and was voted “best tasting cookie”! Thanks Gemma! 👍🏼👏🏼❤️😋

[Chubbyfrog]

I have so many ideas!!
- turtle cookies with pecans, caramel, and chocolate
-carmel and and pretzels
-White chocolate macadamia nut
- Peanut butter and oatmeal
-snickerdoodle, mix in cinamon and sprinkle cinnamon and sugar ontop
-peanut butter and chocolate. You could also add chopped up or mini reece cups.
-Almond joy -coconut, chocolate and almonds. Or no almomd for a mounds cookie
-pina colada shredded coconut and dried pineapple
-chocolate cherry chunk

At scouts we make this snack called mudcruch. I could make mudcrunch cookies with peanut butter, chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and some crispex cereal.

I have a cookie exchange for work so i think i am just going to make a huge batch of this and make a few different variations.

[notso_katsuki]

I made these with my big sister a while ago and they came out lovely, so I'm making it again for her birthday.
Thanks for such an amazing recipe!

[adrijabose]

I loved your video❤💯 I came up with mint chocolate chip, snicker doodle, red velvet, strawberry cheesecake, lemon, mixed berry, mocha and fruity pebble cookies😘😃 have a great day😄💖

[xkhalilthebossxx]

I started baking during cov19 locked down and discovered I have a gift for it but I love learning new things

[carlabales]

This would be super fun for a kid's party activity!!

[katewells]

I love the fact that she mixed in different flavors of what ever she had in the pantry.( like s'mores, pb, choc, hazelnuts, oatmeal raisin, ) and baked them in the oven, they turned out great too.

[ive___]

I tried it and its DELICIOUS!

I made peanut butter cup cookie, coffee cookie, and snicker doodle cookie😄

Thanks Gemma for this amazing recipe!

[gabrielanegrete]

Made these cookies they’re pretty good best recipe for homemade cookies I’ve tried so far. The only thing though is that when the dough isn’t cold it gets sticky and stuck to your hands I left them in the oven at 350 degrees for 12 minutes and the came out chewy but crunchy at the same time it was exactly what I was going for thank you so much for this recipe I love your channel ❤️