These Cookies Are King Arthur’s 2024 Recipe of the Year

09.02.2024 - 09:40 / bhg.com / Karla Walsh

King Arthur Baking Co.

Ask a room of people what qualities make up the “best chocolate chip cookie,” and you’ll likely receive dozens of different answers (and maybe even start a light-hearted debate). The nostalgic cookie recipe is often passed down from generation to generation, but even if you don’t have a go-to family recipe, you likely have a favorite chocolate chip cookie from a bakery or supermarket. 

We know everyone has different tastes: chewy vs. crispy; double-chocolate vs. oatmeal-infused; bars vs. no-bake. Some bakers swear that the secret to the best chocolate chip cookie recipe is the chocolate itself, be it chips, chunks, or shards. Recently, it’s become quite popular to sprinkle a pinch of flaky salt to balance out the sweetness and layer on some crunch.

Our Test Kitchen’s quintessential homemade chocolate chip cookie method includes: 

With all of those factors in mind, we were curious to see how the baking aces at King Arthur Baking Company took their cookie recipe to a level that made it worthy of “2024 Recipe of the Year.” After all, their new and self-declared “best” chocolate chip cookie recipe skyrocketed in popularity so quickly that people literally broke their website.

Declaring something the Recipe of the Year isn't a claim to take lightly. After two years, 75 tests, and more than 1,200 cookies, Molly Marzalek-Kelly and her crew of four other King Arthur compatriots landed on the cookie recipe worthy of sharing King Arthur’s crown—for the rest of this year, at least. (2024 marks the brand’s 11th Recipe of the Year.)

Their goal was to reinvent the classic cookie using a mix of ingredients and techniques that hit those nostalgic notes—just with the volume turned up.

“When we set out to make a