Chocolate chip cookies
The American invention, and it’s undisputed favorite cookie, who doesn’t love them.? Whether with or without nuts, thin and crispy, fat and chewy, dark chocolate, milk or white - if your blood doesn’t run blue, maybe it runs chocolate!
Chocolate Chip Cookies, Thin & Chewy
½ cup butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar 3 tablespoons white sugar 1 egg 1 tablespoon vanilla extract ½ teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder ½ teaspoon salt 1 ¾ cups flour 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips (or milk chocolate if preferred) ¼ cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
-Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or grease well. Set aside.
-In a medium mixing bowl, combine softened butter and sugars, then beat together until well creamed. Add egg and vanilla extract.
-On low speed, stir in baking soda, baking powder, salt and flour. Increase speed, then mix together increasing speed until well combined. Stir in chocolate chips by hand (and nuts if used).
-Using a cookie scoop or a tablespoon, create balls of the dough, about the size of a golf ball, or the size desired. Place on the prepared cookie sheet at least 1 inch apart. (A standard cookie sheet will hold 12 cookies.)
-Bake 10 - 12 minutes or until cookies are golden on top and just slightly browned around the edges. Remove from oven and let cool on the cookie sheet for 2 - 3 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack until completely cool. (Though some prefer their cookies warm, right out of the oven!) Makes 2 dozen cookies.
Combine cookie dough ingredients as described in recipe, until mixture is well combined.
Shape dough into rough, golf-ball sized balls, then place spaced out on parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
Bake until cookies are lightly golden on top and a light brown around the cookie edges.
Cookies will be thin with chocolate chips peeking out and chewy in the middle with a crackly top.
Did you ever meet anyone who didn’t like Chocolate Chip Cookies? Just make sure you make enough so that there are some left for others after you eat the Baker’s share! (which is however many you want!)
