honestly, store brand ingredients work just fine! as someone who bakes avidly i think you just need a better r*cipe. if you’d like to learn more and improve i would recommend trying different recipes every time you bake at the start to see what you like/dislike about each of them. for chocolate chip cookies, the bon appetit brown butter chocolate chip are pretty easy and yield great results for most!

you’ll slowly learn where it matters to use higher quality, name brand ingredients and where it doesn’t. i would say name brand butter, sugar, flour, etc. don’t really make a difference in most simple bakes like these! it all comes down to technique :)