Monday, August 4, 2025 is a notable day if you love free cookies from DoubleTree by Hilton, as the hotel brand is celebrating National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day by offering a complimentary signature warm cookie with no obligation whatsoever — whether or not you are a guest of the hotel property — at almost 400 participating hotel properties in the United States…
August 4 2025: Free Cookies From DoubleTree by Hilton
…and later this year, you will be able to enjoy the Cookie-tini — which is a dessert cookie martini featuring the signature DoubleTree cookie — that is crafted by piebird, which is a new restaurant and bar concept launched by DoubleTree by Hilton. In the meantime, to celebrate, you can create a Cookie-tini to sip at home with this recipe.
The iconic DoubleTree Cookie debuted in 1986 and has since grown to become a beloved part of the guest experience and a symbol of the warm welcome and caring service of the DoubleTree by Hilton brand — resulting in the earning of a loyal and passionate following around the globe. The brand continues to innovate and elevate its warm welcome to an array of audiences — including bakers, astronauts, and travelers alike. Every year, greater than 20 million of the original DoubleTree by Hilton cookies are enjoyed around the world using more than 1.2 million pounds of chocolate chips.
In 2019, the DoubleTree cookie became the first-ever food baked in space when it was baked in orbit aboard the International Space Station during experiments aimed at having space travel become more hospitable.
On National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day in 2023, DoubleTree by Hilton introduced an allergy-friendly version of the chocolate chip cookie to extend the signature welcome of the brand to even more guests. Served as an option alongside the original at check-in, the soft-baked allergy-friendly chocolate chip cookie is made in collaboration with Partake Foods, in a dedicated top nine allergen-free facility and is gluten-free, non-GMO, and vegan.
The famous cookie that was baked in space landed on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly in Virginia in 2024, representing the commitment of DoubleTree by Hilton to warm and caring service anywhere in the universe.
If you are unable to visit one of the nearly 400 DoubleTree by Hilton hotel properties across the United States for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day on Monday, August 4, 2025, you can opt to use the official cookie recipe to bake your own warm and comforting treat in your own kitchen — and you can alter the recipe any way you like, whether the differences from the original recipe is based on taste or allergies.
Official DoubleTree Signature Cookie Recipe
Use this recipe to bake 26 cookies.
- ½ pound or two sticks of butter, softened
- ¾ cup + 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
- ¼ teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- ½ cup rolled oats
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Pinch cinnamon
- 2 2/3 cups Nestle Tollhouse semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 3/4 cups chopped walnuts
Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar in the bowl of a stand mixer on medium speed for approximately two minutes. Add eggs, vanilla and lemon juice, blending with mixer on low speed for 30 seconds; then medium speed for approximately two minutes or until light and fluffy, scraping down the bowl. With the mixer on low speed, add flour, oats, baking soda, salt and cinnamon, blending for about 45 seconds. Do not overmix. Remove the bowl from the mixer and stir in chocolate chips and walnuts.
Portion dough with a scoop — approximately three tablespoons — onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper approximately two inches apart. Preheat oven to 300° Fahrenheit. Bake for 20 to 23 minutes, or until edges are golden brown and center is still soft. Remove cookies from the oven and cool on baking sheet for approximately one hour.
Cook’s note: You can freeze the unbaked cookies; and thawing is not necessary. Preheat oven to 300° Fahrenheit and place the frozen cookies on parchment paper-lined baking sheet approximately two inches apart. Bake until the edges are golden brown and the center is still soft.
Final Boarding Call
I have yet to try the alternate version of the DoubleTree by Hilton cookie. Although I do not like nuts, I still do eat the cookie.
In the meantime, mark your calendar if you want your own complimentary warm cookie on Monday, August 4, 2025.
Photograph ©2022 by Brian Cohen.
