These chocolate chip cookies without brown sugar are the best homemade chocolate chip cookies you will ever eat! Out of brown sugar and still craving soft, delicious and easy chocolate chip cookies? Just don’t like brown sugar? I’ve got you covered! Get ready for soft, chewy and amazing cookies!
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Obsessed with chocolate chip cookies? I don’t blame you! Me too.
In the mood to whip up a delicious batch of soft and chewy homemade cookies and you see, no brown sugar!
Don’t like brown sugar in your cookies? Can I still make chocolate chip cookies without brown sugar. You sure can! And speaking of easy cookie recipes, you will love these easy Matcha Brownies, Easter Cookies, Duncan Hines Cake Mix Cookies and Brownie Blondies.
These chocolate chip cookies are super easy, beyond delicious and you won’t even notice there is no brown sugar.
Of course, if you still like the flavor or brown sugar but you just ran out, I have included a hack to get that same delicious brown sugar flavor even if you ran out. Enter my dear friend molasses.
Molasses is the delicious ingredient that makes brown sugar brown! And speaking of cookies, if you love a delicious cookie recipe, be sure to check out these Almond Flour Peanut Butter Cookies and Soft Gingerbread Cookies.
And, I just can’t help myself….not a cookie recipe but you will love this Easter Charcuterie Board!
Why these chocolate chip cookies without brown sugar are the best!
- This chocolate chip cookies recipe without brown sugar is so easy to make and super delicious!
- You can make chocolate chip cookies with no brown sugar and don’t have to chill your cookie dough. Yes, I said it. No time to wait for delicious cookies and they still turn out incredible.
- If you have ever tried Levain chocolate chip cookies or Crumbl chocolate cookies and you love those big, fat, moist style cookies, you are doing to love this cookie recipe!
- You can make these cookies with chocolate chips, chocolate chunks, mini chocolate chips, peanut butter chocolate chips, whatever chocolate your little heart desires!
Ingredients
Butter: Use salted butter for this recipe. If you have unsalted butter, add about ¼ salt.
Sugar: Granulated white sugar.
Honey: Honey, maple syrup or agave all work well. If you like brown sugar flavor, you can substitute molasses.
Vanilla: Vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste work well.
Egg Yolk
Flour: All purpose white flour.
Baking Powder
Salt
Chocolate Chips: Milk chocolate chips, semi sweet chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips all work well depending on your preference. You can also use chocolate chunks, mini chocolate chips or any combination.
How to make chocolate chip cookies without brown sugar
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Melt butter (about 30 seconds in microwave).
- Combine wet ingredients (butter, sugar, honey (or syrup choice), vanilla and egg yolk.
- Beat until thoroughly combined. Add dry ingredients (flour, baking soda and salt).
- Mix with beater initially and then switch to mixing by hand.
- Dough will form crumbles and you can press them into a full ball of dough.
- Mix in chocolate chips by hand.
- Roll dough into smaller balls (9 large cookies or 12 small cookies).
- Small cookies: cook 9-11 minutes at 350°.
- Large cookies: cook 11-13 minutes at 350°.
- Note: Do note over bake. They will look fluffy and barely golden. Once they cool, they will be soft and delicious!
- Allow cookies to cool on baking tray for at least 20-30 minutes. This will allow for carryover cooking. Store in airtight container. They also freeze well.
Tip to Measure Flour: When you measure your flour, do not scoop it out directly as that can lead to using more flour than is needed.
To correctly measure your flour, give the flour a stir with a fork or a whisk to loosen it. Spoon the flour into cup until it is heaping, then level with the flat side of a knife.
Substitutes for brown sugar
Depending on the application for brown sugar, there are many substitutes.
You should be especially careful when substituting brown sugar in baking as it may effect the cooking.
Some good substitutes for brown sugar in baking include regular white sugar, raw cane sugar, honey, white sugar plus molasses, coconut sugar, muscovado sugar maple syrup and agave nectar or syrup.
How to make m&m cookies without brown sugar
You can follow this chocolate chip cookies recipes without brown sugar and simply substitute m&ms in place of chococolate chips to make m&m cookies without brown sugar.
FAQ and expert tips
Chocolate chip cookies good without brown sugar are delicious! In fact, you won’t even notice the difference. If you use a good substitute for brown sugar such as honey or white sugar plus molasses they will be perfect.
Your chocolate chip cookies might taste plain if you forgot to add a pinch of salt to bring out the flavor of the ingredients. A splash of vanilla also adds a nice depth of flavor to your cookies.
Yes, you can use cane sugar instead of brown sugar in a chocolate chip cookie recipe. However, you will also want to add some honey or molasses to even out the flavor.
Chocolate chip cookies are super addictive because they have the perfect combination of sugar and fat.
Store in an air tight container in the refrigerator. They also freeze well.
The flavor of chocolate chip cookies is affected by the addition of vanilla extract because the vanilla adds an extra depth of flavor and contracts with the chocolate.
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Chocolate Chip Cookies Without Brown Sugar
Equipment
- Baking sheet, cooling rack, hand beater
Ingredients
- 8 tablespoons salted butter
- ½ cup white sugar
- 3 tablespoons honey, maple syrup or agave (note: if you like brown sugar flavor, you can substitute molasses) 63g
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- 1 egg yolk
- 1½ cups all purpose white flour* * See notes for measuring flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt (only if using unsalted butter)
- ¾ cup chocolate chips or chocolate chunks
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°.
- Melt butter (about 30 seconds in microwave).
- Combine wet ingredients (butter, sugar, honey (or syrup choice), vanilla and egg yolk.
- Beat until thoroughly combined. Add dry ingredients (flour, baking soda and salt).
- Mix with beater initially and then switch to mixing by hand.
- Dough will form crumbles and you can press them into a full ball of dough.
- Mix in chocolate chips by hand.
- Roll dough into smaller balls (9 large cookies or 12 small cookies).
- Small cookies: cook 9-11 minutes at 350°.
- Large cookies: cook 11-13 minutes at 350°.
- Note: Do note over bake. They will look fluffy and barely golden. Once they cool, they will be soft and delicious!
- Allow cookies to cool on baking tray for at least 20-30 minutes. This will allow for carryover cooking. Store in airtight container. They also freeze well.
Tay
I ran out of brown sugar and these chocolate chip cookies without brown sugar were perfect! I couldn’t even tell the difference and the texture was amazing. I think my previous chocolate chip cookie recipe just lost the top spot!
Kit
These chocolate chip cookies without brown sugar taste even better than the real deal! I ran out of brown sugar so I added a combo of honey and molasses and they were amazing!!!
Dante
I made these chocolate chip cookies with maple syrup instead of the brown sugar per the recommendations and these were amazing!!! Solid chocolate chip cookie recipe!