The best chocolate chip cookies

Overall Score: 91/100

Our winner has a pleasantly crunchy and golden-baked appearance, with the perfect amount of soft, moreish chocolate chips.

The distinct Galaxy chocolate aroma gives the biscuits sweet, caramel notes that come through in the flavour complimenting the creamy, buttery taste of the biscuit.

BUY NOW Iceland, £1.49 for 180g

Overall Score: 86/100

Chunky cookies are filled with milk and dark chocolate pieces. Its chocolatey, shortbread notes went down well with the enjoyable – if not odd - slight coconut aroma. The combination of dark and milk chocolate gives the biscuit both sweet and bitter flavours that add great depth of flavour to the buttery taste.

BUY NOW Waitrose & Partners, £2 for 200g

Overall Score: 78/100

Smaller in size but all can be forgiven thanks to its rich, dark chocolate quality and subtle browned butter taste. The biscuit has a melt-in-the-mouth, crumbly texture that was likened to a shortbread. The soft and fudgy milk chocolate adds a lovely sweetness to the buttery biscuit, but some testers found it a touch too sweet.

In stores only, Nisa, Spar, Bestway, £1 for 150g

Overall Score: 78/100

Generously filled with plenty of sweet chocolate chips, this cookie has an indulgent buttery aroma. Testers enjoyed the morsels of chocolate in every bite and found the rich chocolate added a burst of flavour to the plain-tasting biscuit. The biscuit is crunchy and crumbly in texture, with soft, fudgy pieces of chocolate.

In store only, Aldi, £0.62 for 400g

Overall Score: 76/100

A classic golden-brown cookie with complimentary buttery notes, coupled with a sweet milk chocolate scent – the combination of which comes out in the flavour. However, some testers found the biscuit a touch too sweet overall. Initially crunchy with a crumbly finish to the texture.

BUY NOW Tesco, £1.30 for 230g

Overall Score: 71/100

This cookie has a generous smattering of chocolate chips running through it and there is a strong buttery aroma in the biscuit. The semi-sweet chocolate flavour comes through well against the pleasantly buttery biscuit flavour. It was a bit too dry and hard for our testers though.

In store only, M&S, £1 for 400g

Overall Score: 63/100

There is a gentle butter and slightly creamy aroma to this biscuit, but testers wanted more chocolate chips in the mix. We enjoyed the wheat flavour and subtle but pleasant milk chocolate sweetness, but it wasn’t strong enough against the biscuit, making the overall flavour quite bland and unbalanced. It has a crumbly and drying texture and a cloying mouthfeel.

BUY NOW Tesco, £0.60 for 250g

Overall Score: 62/100

A nicely baked golden-brown cookie with a buttery sweet aroma – with testers likening it to a homemade cookie smell. Testers liked the gentle buttery notes to the biscuit and mild sweetness but as there were very few chocolate chips present, meaning the cookie lacked the rich depth of chocolate, leading to a bland flavour overall. It does, however, have a good crunchy texture.

BUY NOW Morrison's, £0.50 for 230g