Byron Bay Chocolate Chip Cookies

Name: Byron Bay Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 45 min
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 175g / 12 1/2 tbsp unsalted butter (, softened (6.2 oz, Note 1 - softening tip!)); 1/3 cup brown sugar ((light or normal, not dark)); 1/3 cup white sugar (, caster / superfine); 1/8 tsp salt; 2 egg yolks (, at room temperature (Note 6 for using leftover whites)); 2 tsp vanilla extract/essence; 1/2 tsp baking powder; 1/2 cup rice flour ((sub with plain/all purpose flour, Note 2)); 1 1/2 cups flour (, plain/all purpose); 200g / 7 oz dark or semi-sweet chocolate block (, chopped into pretty small pieces (Note 3))

Instructions

Prep:20minCook:25min

Recipe video above. This is a copycat of Australia's most famous Chocolate Chip Cookies - the Byron Bay Milk Choc Chunk Cookies! Just like the real deal, these are big, crunchy, buttery and loaded with a generous amount of chocolate. See reader feedback on the White Chocolate Macadamia which uses the same cookie dough! Good quality milk chocolate for baking is hard to come by, so we're using dark chocolate here - but if anything, it intensifies the chocolate experience!Cookie emergency? No beater? No worries! Make these fast & easy Chocolate Chip Cookies instead (they're soft and chewy, no chill time).

Updated at: Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:02:28 GMT