Just when I thought I had run out of ways to make chocolate chip cookies, I got an idea.
Cookies in stick form.
One of the best parts of these cookie sticks is that they’re ready in under a half hour from start to finish.
Stir the dough together in one bowl, no need for a mixer, just press it into the pan and bake.
Because they’re baked in a pan, there’s no need to worry about spreading so you don’t have to chill the dough.
The baking time is brief and before you know it, you’re eating cookies. Or sticks.
To make them, I combined my recipes for Chocolate Chip and Chunk Cookies, my go-to Blondie base recipe, along with Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups and Chocolate Chunk Cookie Bars.
So many cookies and versions on a theme, but chocolate chip cookies never get old.
There’s no butter in them and instead I used canola oil. I used canola oil when I made Molasses Triple Chocolate Cookies.
And baking with coconut oil has produced some of my favorite cookies ever, including Soft Batch Dark Brown Sugar Coconut Oil Cookies.
Oil keeps cakes and muffins softer and moister than butter, and it kept the sticks soft, pliable, tender, and moist. I didn’t miss the butter flavor because I was too distracted by all the chocolate, but if you prefer melted butter, go for it.
There’s plenty of chocolate chunks lining the entire length of the sticks because I want chocolate in every bite.
The chocolate chunks remind me of lane dividers on roads.
They’re very soft with just a bit of chewiness. I kept them on the underbaked side because I prefer smooshy and gooey to crispy and crunchy.
Although the words crispy and cookies are mutually exclusive in my world, for firmer sticks, bake them for an extra couple minutes.
They’re so fast and easy to whip up and are perfect for lunch boxes, car snacks, or to toss in your purse for those you-never-know moments. I seem to have plenty of those.
Since they’re the same shape as granola bars, I pretended they were healthy granola bars instead of a cookies.
Remember the children’s game Pick Up Sticks?
These are the kind of sticks I want to pick up.
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Chocolate Chunk Cookie Sticks
Ingredients
- 1 large egg
- ¾ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup canola or vegetable oil, 1/2 cup unsalted melted butter may be substituted
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- pinch salt, optional and to taste
- about 3/4 cup chocolate chunks or chips (I used Enjoy Life Mega Chunks
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F. Line an 8-by-8-inch pan with aluminum foil and leave overhang, spray with cooking spray; set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together first 5 ingredients (through vanilla).
- Add the next 4 ingredients (through optional salt), and stir until just combined; don’t overmix.
- Turn dough out into prepared pan, using a spatula or fingers to smoosh dough into corners. Smooth top lightly with a spatula.
- Arrange chocolate chunks in rows (if desired) or simply sprinkle them evenly over the surface; press chunks is lightly, enough so they’re anchored and bake into the dough or will be prone to falling out of the baked sticks.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes (sticks in photos were baked 19 minutes; for crispier sticks, add 2 to 5 minutes to baking time), or just until set in the center; don’t overbake because sticks firm up as they cool. Allow to cool completely in pan before lifting out with foil overhang.
- Place the large slab of baked dough on a cutting board and with a pizza wheel or sharp knife, cut into sticks. In order to get clean lines and very neat looking sticks as shown in the photos, you must wait for slab of dough to cool completely before slicing. Sticks will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 5 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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My mouth is watering, Averie! These are so adorable and look incredibly moist! YUM!
I just love these! Food tastes better when it’s fun to eat, and these fit the bill perfectly! Pinned! xo
Thanks for pinning, Marie!
Well clearly I’m going to need at least half a dozen or so of these ;) Fun idea!
This is happening this weekend! Or tommorow;)
These are a great idea! Sometimes cookies seem so fussy with scooping and forming and chilling and checking. These are super easy and those underbaked centers are calling my name!
They’re the only way to go for me :)
What a fun idea! These look delicious! Pan cookies are actually my favorite!
totally easy! And I saw your sliders. I also saw like 3 other blogs with sliders today…they’re going around!
These look delicious! At first, I thought the chocolate chunks were Tootsie Rolls. haha! I’m curious, because I’m not baking savvy at all, why did you decide not to put the chocolate chunks in the batter? Was it for ease of cutting? Thanks!
Ease of cutting and for something different. I have about 167 recipes that use choc chips or chunks baked in – so this was a nice change :)
Thanks!
Your cookies always looks SO GOOD and almost raw-ish! I’m a good way. I love my cookies like that. I’ll be making these as soon as it isn’t 98 degrees outside in Denver…(with no AC)….Yum!
Well you barely have to run your oven – 20 mins tops, so it won’t heat your house up too badly!
Awesome… just when I thought there were no more ways to EAT choc chip cookies.
Thanks!
Oh my goodness, how fun are these?! Love it! I made some M&M cookie sticks last year, and they were such a hit. Everyone loves a little variety with their cookies! Yours seriously look SO good. Chewy, soft, and slightly gooey in the middle. Just the way I prefer my cookies!
Oh wow, M&M Sticks sound wonderful! I could get on board with those! Good idea!
I have too many cookie favorites to name one (I might be able to narrow it down to a list of 25 similar to your post 6/7), and these look just as yummy as all of your others! I made the hit the trail vegan cookies (with coconut oil) and PB soft serve over the weekend (they went very well together). I love all the texture in those cookies, and I needed an eggless recipe when that craving hit me. Next up is either the coconut carrot cake or molasses-ginger cookies.
Wow, you were busy with my cookbook and so glad to hear it! Yea the Hit The Trail -I made those like almost 2 years ago now! wow! And then just recently when I made the vegan Healthy Miracle Cookies on my blog, I realized after the fact, wow, they’re quite similar. The banana being the biggest difference. And PB Softserve…omg that photo shoot. I will never forget that ice cream or that photo shoot. We were having an unseasonal hot snap in San Diego and everything was melting in like….3 mins. I had to start over many times just to get a couple pics that didn’t look like soup :) Coconut carrot cake – really good but I will always love molasses cookies more than just about any other, they’re just my thing :)
Is it strange that I think of Lincoln logs with these cookie sticks? They look so gooey and I love it!
Lincoln logs = YES!! Totally! Great call!
These look so soft, chewy, and delicious Averie!
These look so good Averie! An awesome, creative remix of chocolate chip/chunk cookies. They look so soft and gooey and chewy. All of my favorite things about cookies! A combination of four of your best cookie/blondie recipes. I love that you used oil too, you can just *see* how moist these are inside. And yes, I want to pick them all up too. The chocolate to dough ratio looks perfect with all those chunks!
When I saw that you posted choc chunk cookies for your post today, I was like, well at least hers are cookies and mine are sticks :) One of those eerily similar posts/timing things that we have a knack of doing all the time!
And these babies were so moist. There is nothing worse than a dry cookie/bar/cake, and these are anything but :)
These look fantastic! As for fave cookie, I could name a few but right now I am thinking about Italian Sorinkle Cookies: https://scrumptiousgruel.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/untraditional/
Just saw them – fun with the green sprinkles!
What a creative idea! What a fun and interesting way to eat chocolate chip cookies. Being sticks, it’s going to make me want to dip it in something lol…maybe chocolate sauce.
Oh wow, dipping…yes! I love the way you think. I have this hot fudge that I love – would have been perfect! https://www.averiecooks.com/10-minute-homemade-hot-fudge/