Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies – Barefeet in the Kitchen

The ultimate Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies are giant bakery-style cookies with crisp edges and a perfectly chewy center, filled with chocolate chips and sprinkled with flaked sea salt. This is a cookie you absolutely must taste to believe.

Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you’ve ever been lucky enough to eat a Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Cookie from La Grande Orange Cafe, you might possibly appreciate my enthusiasm over these cookies.

I tasted their salted chocolate chip cookie a few weeks ago while at brunch with a friend. I was blown away. I make dang good cookies, but that cookie was something else. 

I may have become a wee bit obsessed with recreating this Salted Chocolate Chip Cookie at home, but it paid off in an amazing new cookie recipe. I absolutely LOVE these cookies.

Bakery Style Chocolate Chip Cookies

I’ve made these cookies multiple times in less than two weeks (both gluten-free and traditional recipes have been tested repeatedly) and the reviews have been fantastic from everyone who has tasted them. 

This is currently my favorite cookie of all time. Exaggerate much? Maybe, but I’d still take one of these over any other cookie out there.

The size of the cookie will determine the texture. If you want a giant bakery-style cookie with crisp edges and a perfectly chewy center, follow the recipe exactly and make the cookies huge. (Just three to a baking sheet, seriously!)

There is no way to get that perfect texture without the giant cookie. Trust me on that, okay? I made some of the cookies smaller and they were really good, but the giant ones were so much better!

Kitchen Tip: I use this scoop, this baking sheet, and these cooling racks to make this recipe.

Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies

You’ll need the following ingredients to make this recipe:

• light brown sugar
• butter
• eggs
• vanilla extract
• all-purpose flour
• old fashioned rolled oats
• baking soda
• kosher salt
• semi-sweet chocolate chips
• Maldon flaked sea salt  or coarse sea salt

Side note – don’t let the oatmeal in this recipe deter you from trying them. There is barely a hint of oatmeal flavor, but it provides a perfectly chewy texture that can’t be beat.

Salt On Chocolate Chip Cookies

The finishing salt is really important here. There aren’t a lot of fancy spices and ingredients in my kitchen, but Maldon flaked sea salt is a key ingredient in these cookies.

You can buy it in some grocery stores, but I found the best prices by far on Amazon. (I promise that if you buy it, you’ll use it for more than just these cookies!) However, if you don’t want to buy a fancy salt, coarse sea salt or even kosher salt will work.

Just be extra careful when sprinkling the salt on the cookies, as the smaller grains of salt can quickly make them “salty” instead of giving just a hint of salt with the sweet cookie.

If you don’t happen to be a chocolate lover, I recommend checking out the Coconut Lover’s Oatmeal Cookies and the Almond Shortbread Thumbprint Cookies.

And for a few more chocolate free cookie options, try these Iced Caramel Toffee Oatmeal Cookies or Double Vanilla Delight Sugar Cookies. Both of those cookies are pinned to my Can’t Wait To Eat This board on Pinterest!

Check out all of the Gluten Free Dessert Recipes on this website!

{originally published 5/8/15 – recipe notes and photos updated 10/21/24}