These olive oil cookies are my take on everyone’s favorite ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookie. Instead of butter, good-quality extra-virgin olive oil is the base fat, adding moisture and richness and elevating the flavor profile of this dessert. While I can assure you the cookies won’t taste like salad dressing, they’ll have a gentle floral, citrusy, nutty and herbaceous undertone that complements the chocolate. To enhance the natural citrus hint the olive oil brings, I use freshly grated orange zest to flavor the cookie dough, rubbing it with the granulated sugar until the sugar turns yellow and fragrant. It’s a small step that goes a long way, adding a touch of complexity that will make you go in for another bite. Every guest I have served these to has asked for the recipe. There’s something so simple, yet so unique about them. You’re going to love these cookies.
| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 50 min |
| Active: | 20 min |
| Yield: | 9 to 12 cookies |
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons packed orange zest (zest of about 1 medium orange; see Cook’s Note)
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 3/4 cup packed dark-brown sugar
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing
- 1 large egg plus 1 yolk (70 grams)
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon vinegar or orange juice
- 220 grams (1 3/4 cups) bread flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 100 to 150 grams (1/3 to 1/2 cup) chocolate chips
- Flaky salt
Instructions
- Add the granulated sugar, orange zest and kosher salt to a medium mixing bowl. Rub the zest, sugar and salt together using your fingers until the sugar turns pale yellow and is fragrant. Add the brown sugar, olive oil, whole egg and yolk, vanilla extract and vinegar or citrus juice. Whisk until smooth and incorporated.
- Add the flour, baking powder and baking soda to a separate bowl. Toss the dry ingredients using a whisk or your fingers to evenly distribute the rising agents throughout the flour. Combine with the wet ingredients using a silicone spatula or wooden spoon until there are no more visible dry flour spots. Don’t overmix. Add the chocolate chips and mix to evenly distribute throughout the cookie dough. Place the cookie dough in the freezer for 10 to 15 minutes.
- While the cookie dough is chilling, preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
- The dough should have the texture of marzipan at this point; if it’s softer than that, chill for longer. Scoop 2-tablespoon portions of dough onto the baking sheet. Leave 1 1/2 to 2 inches in between each cookie. Dip a pastry brush in olive oil and lightly brush each cookie on top. (Don’t use too much; you don’t want a pool of olive oil around the cookies, just enough to coat the exterior.) Bake until golden brown, 9 to 12 minutes (see Cook’s Note). Sprinkle with flaky salt.
- Serve right away. Store in an airtight container or bag for up to 3 days or freeze the dough up to 3 months.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 10.5 servings |
| Calories | 316 |
| Total Fat | 14 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Carbohydrates | 44 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Sugar | 28 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Cholesterol | 24 mg |
| Sodium | 168 mg |
Reviews
These have easily dethroned all previous chocolate chip cookie recipes that I’ve made. Without a single doubt this recipe has ruined all other recipes for me. The best tasting chocolate chip cookies, PERIOD. The only recipe I will ever make going forward!!! 100000/10
These are amazing. First time, I didn’t have any orange zest but they still turned out great. Excited to try again with the zest 🙂
These cookies are out of this world amazing. If you want to surprise and impress people this will do it! They are lightly crunchy on the rim and chewy on the inside. The olive oil imparts a rich flavor and gives them a flat crinkle cookie look but trust me, they are delicious! I subbed bread flour for all purpose and they came out great. Don’t listen to reviews of people who obviously didn’t even make the recipe.
Never mind converting from grams to cups, but you should get the gram measurement right. 1/4 cup is 50 g of sugar, not 25 as stated in the recipe above. The olive oil and the orange zest really are a fun way to spice up a cookie.
Really tasty and the texture was perfect. The orange zest and olive oil add a slight floral flavor which worked well with dark chocolate
Please include ingredients in Cups on the side of the Gram measurements. Not everyone is familiar in how to measure Grams or has a Scale to do so. Thanks
i haven’t made them, but if they are anything like olive oil cake, they will be delicious.
Sounds awful from the ingredients.