I have been making chocolate chip cookies for 45+ years; lets just say I've tried a zillion recipes, but THIS recipe beats them all, HANDS DOWN!!!
Some chocolate chip cookie recipes have great flavor, but produce a flat cookie that spreads all over the cookie sheet (I hate that, don't you?). Some recipes produce a picture perfect cookie, but it doesn't have that wonderfully chewy texture and buttery flavor that a good chocolate cookie needs.
Well, I'm here to tell you that THIS recipe will give you BOTH, a perfectly shaped cookie AND one that is totally delicious.
One word of caution: this cookie dough is very stiff. It's best to use a stand mixer.
1 1/2 cups real butter (no substitutions)(room temperature)
1 1/4 cups granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
2 Large eggs
1 Tablespoon vanilla
4 1/4 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups chocolate chips (good quality)
In the bowl of your stand mixer, combine the room temperature butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla. Beat until well mixed and smooth.
In a different bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt together, then add it (one cup at a time) to the creamed butter-egg mixture, mixing well between each addition. When it is all well mixed, add the chocolate chips.
Roll the dough into balls about the size of a small walnut. Put onto an UNgreased cookie sheet, about 2" apart.
Bake in a pre-heated 375°F oven for 10-12 minutes (my electric oven takes 11 minutes).
Cool them on a baking screen/rack.
This recipe makes about 5 dozen cookies
I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
ENJOY!!!
