Cinnamon Sugar Chocolate Chip Cookies

This easy recipe for cinnamon sugar chocolate chip cookies adds some sweet spice to everyone’s favorite classic cookie. Perfect for the holidays, or any time you want to brighten someone’s day with an unexpected treat!

If you asked me what my favorite cookie in the whole wide world is, I would not hesitate for even one second.

There are chocolate chip cookies, and then there is everything else, cookie-wise (although my grandma’s molasses cookies are a close second).

So me being me, I am constantly messing around with a chocolate chip cookie recipe to see how many ways I can come up with making my favorites, and that is how this recipe for cinnamon sugar was born.  Ready to spice up your chocolate chippers?  

Whether you are going to a cookie swap or needing a plate of deliciousness for a party, these do pretty much taste like heaven in cookie form.

They are also great for no reason at all.  I like mine with a cup of Irish Breakfast tea, personally.

And speaking of, every once in a while the Southern husband takes me to our local tea room, where they serve cookies and scones and teeny sandwiches and inevitably he is the only guy in the place and there you have Reason # 239,493,201 why I adore him, because he is just fine with that.

Back at the cookies, these start with a standard chocolate chip cookie base, but with cinnamon added to the dough.

ingredients you need to make cinnamon sugar chocolate chip cookies!

Here’s how to make cinnamon Sugar chocolate chip cookies!

STEP 1: Preheat oven to 375 and line cookie sheets with parchment or a silicone mat.

STEP 2: Whisk together 1 ½ cups of flour, ¾ teaspoon of baking soda and a teaspoon of cinnamon.

STEP 3: Cream 10 tablespoons of room temperature butter and a cup of brown sugar in a mixer on medium high speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes.

STEP 4: Add an egg and a teaspoon of vanilla to the butter mixture and mix until combined.

STEP 5: Add flour mixture to the  butter mixture and mix until combined.

STEP 6: Stir in chocolate chips.

STEP 7: Mix a half cup of white sugar and two tablespoons cinnamon together. Roll tablespoons of cookie dough into balls and roll in the cinnamon sugar.

STEP 8: Place dough balls 2 inches apart on cookie sheet and bake until set, about 13 minutes.  Cool on cookie sheet for about 5 minutes and then transfer to rack.

More tips for making cinnamon sugar chocolate chip cookies

Please don’t skip that step where you roll the balls of dough in cinnamon sugar before you bake them. That way they have some cinnamon sass on the inside, and a sparkly coating of cinnamon sugar on the outside.  I promise it’s worth it – happy, cinnamon sugar sigh!

Oh, and last but not least, I can’t end this post without telling you about my favorite classic chocolate chip cookie in the whole wide world, and that is my friend David’s perfect perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe.  

He wrote about it in this article for the New York Times, and it remains my inspiration for all things chocolate chip cookie.

And so, let the cookie baking begin!  

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