Name: Lavender & Sea Salt Chocolate Chunk Cookies
Prep time: 1 h 15 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 1 h 27 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3/4 cup Unsalted Butter, at room temperature, 1.5 sticks; 3/4 cup Light Brown Sugar, packed; 1/4 cup Granulated Sugar; 1 Egg, at room temperature; 2 tsp Vanilla extract; 2 cups All-Purpose Flour; 2 tsp Cornstarch; 1 tsp Baking Soda; 1/2 tsp Salt; 2 tsp Dried Lavender Buds; 1 1/2 cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks, or chocolate chips; Course Sea Salt, for sprinkling

Crispy on the outside, yet soft and chewy on the inside, these homemade lavender & sea salt chocolate chunk cookies are an elegant twist on your average cookie recipe.

A perfectly crisp and gooey cookie made with chocolate chunks and lavender. It’s on brown parchment paper and the chocolate chunks are slightly melted and there’s a sprinkle of sea salt on top. There are cookie crumbs on the baking sheet surrounding the cookie.

I’ve been on a lavender kick lately.

Not just with the lavender essential oil and lotions that make me feel warm and fuzzy inside, but I’ve been itching to experiment with it in my recipes.

Ever since I made my Mocha Chip Lavender Ice Cream I’ve been daydreaming of other delicious ways to use it.

These soft and gooey lavender & sea salt chocolate chunk cookies hit the spot.

They’re the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe with hints of floral minty lavender, dark chocolate chunks and bits of sea salt flakes. A perfect Spring treat!

An overhead shot of freshly baked chocolate chunk and lavender cookies. They’re place on a brown parchment lined baking sheet. They’re golden and sprinkled with sea salt

The chocolate chip cookie recipe is from Sally’s Baking Addiction (original recipe here).

Honestly, there’s not many bakers I trust for baking recipes besides her. She always delivers :).

Her method for making perfect chocolate chip cookies was similar to the tricks I learned while going to culinary school.

Tips for making perfect homemade soft and chewy lavender chocolate chip cookies:

You must use room temperature butter and eggs! Using cold butter or eggs will seize up the batter and disrupt the creaming process causing your cookies to be hard.
You want to let the dough rest in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. This will stop the cookies from spreading too much when baking.
Rolling the cookie dough in your hands before placing them on the baking sheet will also create that perfect chewy texture. It also creates uniform, round cookies.

Ingredients Needed for Lavender & Sea Salt Chocolate Chunk Cookies:

Butter
Light brown sugar
Granulated Sugar
Egg
Vanilla
Flour
Cornstarch
Baking Soda
Sea Salt
Dried Lavender buds
Chocolate Chunks

I know cornstarch is probably not in your every day cookie recipe, but it helps keep these cookies soft and chewy on the inside :).

Two small white bowls, one filled with dried lavender buds and one filled with dark chocolate chunks. A fresh purple lavender flower is resting in the background. Next to that picture is a cookie broken in half, it’s gooey on the inside with chocolate chunks and lavender

You can easily find dried lavender online.

I bought my dried lavender buds on Amazon for under $10 (affiliate link).

It was a decent size bag that will definitely last me a while (unless I start going overboard on the lavender recipes!)

If you’ve never used dried lavender, aside from its pretty purple color, it has a minty yet floral aroma.

At first smell, it might seem strong and overpowering, but if used with the right flavors, it can be a unique and delicate taste.

In these lavender & sea salt chocolate chunk cookies, the lavender pairs perfect with the dark chocolate giving the cookies a unique flavor.

The texture is soft and chewy like a Tollhouse cookie, but better because they’re made from scratch (duh!).

Three perfectly crisp and gooey cookies made with chocolate chunks and lavender. They’re on brown parchment paper and the chocolate chunks are slightly melted and there’s a sprinkle of sea salt on top. There are cookie crumbs on the baking sheet surrounding the cookies.

For more Lavender Recipes Try:

Lavender Infused Vodka
Lavender Mocha Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream
Peach-Blueberry Lavender Crostata