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This air fryer cookie for one recipe is sized perfectly for the air fryer. With this recipe, you will get one big chocolate chip cookie. Big enough to share, but so good that you won’t want to!

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How often do you get a craving for a cookie, but don’t need to cook a whole batch? Daily, you say? I thought so!

This recipe is perfect for that situation. It makes one big cookie and by doing it in the air fryer you don’t have to heat up your whole kitchen, or make an entire batch!

The cookie will have a soft, gooey inside and a slightly crisp outside. These are like a giant bakery-style cookie and you won’t be able to resist it!

If you are in fact looking to cook a whole batch, maybe try out our air fryer peanut butter cookies too!

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“This is way too good! Way too easy.
Share? I don’t think so.”

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Ingredient Notes:

“Wet” ingredients- Check your cabinets to make sure you have granulated sugar, brown sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla.

“Dry” ingredients- The only dry ingredients are flour, baking soda, and salt.

The additions- This is the chocolate chips. Almost everyone uses semi-sweet, because that’s what they grew up with. That is fine if it is your favorite. But if you can be persuaded, I encourage you to try milk chocolate chips instead. They are a little sweeter, melt a little differently, and just help the recipe a little!

How to Air Fry a Cookie:

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  • Add melted butter, brown sugar, and sugar to a mixing bowl and stir to combine.
  • Add an egg yolk and vanilla and stir again.
  • Mix in flour, baking soda, and salt to the bowl to make a dough.
  • Stir in plenty of chocolate chips.
  • Shape the dough into a large ball and then flatten.
  • Place a piece of parchment paper in the air fryer basket and put the cookie dough in the center of the parchment paper.
  • Cook for five minutes.
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Recipe Tips!

If you need a cookie that you can dip into a cup of milk, you can just split the dough ball into two cookies. Cook for 4 minutes if you have two smaller cookies.

Milk chocolate chips are my favorite, but you can use peanut butter, white chocolate, or semi-sweet also!

You can add M&M’s to the cookie, or use them to replace the chocolate chips. Get creative and have fun!

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Easy Cookie Recipe

Created by: Karly Campbell


1 giant cookie

This recipe is perfect for a one-person cookie! Use the air fryer to make this quickly and easily without waiting for you oven to heat up.

Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons melted butter
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
  • 1 large egg yolk
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • cup + 1 tablespoon flour
  • 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
  • teaspoon salt
  • ¼ cup chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat air fryer to 350 degrees.

  • Add the butter, brown sugar, and granulated sugar to a mixing bowl and stir with a spoon to combine.

  • Add the egg yolk and vanilla and stir well.

  • Mix in the flour, baking soda, and salt to form a dough.

  • Stir in the chocolate chips.

  • Shape the dough into a large ball and flatten lightly to form a ball of cookie dough that is about 4 inches in diameter.

  • Carefully place a piece of parchment paper down in the preheated air fryer basket and place the cookie dough in the center. The dough will spread a bit, so be sure that the parchment is large enough to allow space for spreading.

  • Air fry for 5 minutes.

  • Cool for 5 minutes before serving.

Notes

This recipe makes one BIG cookie. You can split the dough in half to make 2 cookies, if preferred. Cook for 4 minutes instead of 5 to keep the centers gooey.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 706kcal | Carbohydrates: 69g | Protein: 12g | Fat: 45g | Saturated Fat: 26g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 17g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 431mg | Sodium: 678mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 58g

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  1. Bob says

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    I think the recipe needs more flour.

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  2. Malisa Blizzard says

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    Little longer cooking time due to likely a lower wattage air fryer, and I add kosher salt to the top for my personal taste, but I use this recipe anytime someone want something sweet. Keeps us from having to eat a whole batch of cookies. Thank you.

    Reply

  3. E says

    Just so sweet! Also still undercooked after cooking for 12 mins and leaving to sit for 5.

    But the main prob was that it was far too sweet!

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    • Malisa Blizzard says

      I found the same thing. I cook 6 min on one side let cool and flip cookie over sprinkle with kosher salt and cook 4-6 minutes on the other side. The salt balances the sweet. So good. Still my go to recipe and anything can be added to it. Mad with mini marshmallows c chips and crushed Graham crackers. Still don’t forget the salt on top.

      Reply

  4. Allie says

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    12 mins and it was still raw, like others have had issues with, but had decent flavor. Did the first 6 mins at 350 then dropped the temp and did the next 6 at 325 as recommended. Do not recommend for an InstaPot air fryer oven. Maybe if you break up the cookie into a couple it might cook properly. Lesson learned.

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  5. Maria says

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    I found this cookie one night when my husband asked me for a chocolate chip cookies. Have been making this every since! a nice size and even better with icecream. I cook his more because he doesn’t like a gooey center & I like mine half baked. So delicious & I don’t end up making extra cookies that I don’t need for 2 people!!

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  6. Katie says

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    Cooked for 5 minutes and it was still raw. Did 5 additional minutes and still raw 🙁 tried again with smaller, regular sized cookies and again, raw at the 5 minute mark. The dough was still tasty but I’m sad I didn’t get my giant cookie 😭

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    • Karly says

      Hi Katie! Did you wait the 5 minutes to let the cookie set before cooking again? It is meant to be a gooey cookie, but it does need that cooling time to set up more. You also have to make sure to flatten the dough out a bit and shape it into a cookie so that it isn’t so thick. Every air fryer is a bit different though, so yours may just need a bit longer.

      Reply

  7. Heather says

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    This came out perfect! Each of my daughters made one. Wow, so good and easy! Biggest cookie I’ve made LOL

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    • Hearher says

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      Oops, 5 stars!

      Reply

    • Karly says

      I’m so glad you guys enjoyed it!

      Reply

  8. ness says

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    cooked for 8 minutes and was burning on outside but inside just too raw . Right settings and everything but was fun to try

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    • Karly says

      Sorry to hear this didn’t work out for you! All air fryers are a bit different so it can be hard to have exact time/temp settings across the board. If you try again, drop the temp down and cook for a bit longer. 🙂 325 for 10 minutes might do the trick.

      Reply

  9. Darlene says

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    Delicious 😋. You do have to let it sit for the 5 minutes. Just the right consistency.

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    • Karly says

      Thanks, Darlene!

      Reply

  10. Posipati says

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    Thinking I will make several & freeze to cook whenever I have a craving.

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    • Karly says

      Great idea! 🙂

      Reply

  11. Jo says

    Don’t try to make it in a Cuisinart air fryer. Total fail.

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    • Karly says

      If you’d like to share what went wrong, I can help troubleshoot.

      Reply

  12. Megan says

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    It’s a little dry going in, but it taste good.

    Reply

  13. Maggie says

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    Made this cookie and I’m absolutely obsessed. It was perfectly crispy on the top but gooey everywhere else. I did cook it an extra 2 minutes my second try and I liked that better but overall the cookie is addicting.

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    • Karly says

      I’m so happy to hear that! This cookie (or the regular sized batch) seems to get made about once a week in our house!

      Reply

  14. MJ says

    Easy Cookie Recipe for One Only Person | Airfried.com (22)
    Yuck! Cooked for over 12 minutes and still a raw center, no crispness. Didn’t taste at all like a chocolate chip cookie, just an uncooked mess.

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    • Karly says

      Hi MJ! Per the instructions, you have to let the cookie cool a bit to set up.

      Every air fryer does cook differently, but we’ve never seen someone need a full 12 minutes on this one. Are you sure you followed the recipe correctly and measured properly?

      Reply

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