Have you ever met a cookie you didn’t LOVE? I know I haven’t! Growing up, we always had fresh cookies and Mom stored them in a monkey-shaped cookie jar. We tried to sneak cookies and the challenge was to get the monkey’s head off without Mom hearing us! I was never that good at it! Geez, that cookie jar is 60 years old … it was a wedding shower gift for my Mom back in 1960. My brother and his family have the monkey now and it always makes me smile when I see it in their kitchen.
I flipped past this recipe many times while choosing my weekly bake for the Chickens. I thought it would be too ordinary or boring. But … thank you Cindy Utter of Jacksonville, Illinois … this recipe is a game changer! I realized I’d only ever used the recipes on the chocolate chip or oatmeal bags. I’ve never made a true homemade chocolate chip cookie. And this one is divine!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup shortening
2 cups packed light brown sugar
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
4 ½ cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons salt
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 cup chopped pecans
1. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, shortening and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts (dough will be slightly sticky).
2. Drop by tablespoonfuls 2” apart onto greased baking sheets. (Note – I didn’t grease my baking sheets).
3. Bake at 350F for 10-12 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove to wire racks to cool.
With 2 teaspoons of vanilla, this cookie has great flavor. Crisp on the outside yet soft too. And a single batch makes a lot of cookies! I was able to fill our cookie jar, give some to Norma and still have enough to freeze. This is my new go-to recipe for chocolate chip cookies. Delish!
What does Norma say about these Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Chocolate chip cookie how do I love thee – let me count the ways! There are, at last count, approximately one trillion chocolate chip cookie recipes on the internet and if they ever find signs of life on other planets it will probably be a chocolate chip cookie recipe! So let us help you simplify your search for a really great CCC recipe! This one is a big winner 🙂 Perfect texture and the traditional yumminess of chocolate chip cookie combined with the toasted hint of pecans. LOVE!
TEMPTATION LEVEL out of 10: 10 out of 10 – it was no contest!
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