MMMMM.....COOKIES!

Sometimes you just have to make some cookies!
When I was a girl, I think home baked cookies were my indulgence of choice.  This outweighed any desire for ice cream or cake...I just loved cookies.

I even had a t-shirt with one of those decals that you have to go to a t-shirt shop and get by choosing the decal from a book.  The t-shirt said "This shirt stops at all cookie jars"

So, in honour of the cookie t-shirt and fond memories of childhood baked cookies, here is my go-to recipe.  It is from the Mrs. Fields Cookie book.

 

Chocolate Chip Cookies 

1 Cup Butter or Margarine             2 1/2 Cups All Purpose Flour
1 Cup Brown Sugar                       1/2 Teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 Cup White Sugar                     1/4 Teaspoon Salt
2 Large Eggs                                  2 Teaspoons Vanilla Extract
2 Cups Chocolate Chips

Method:
- Pre-heat Oven to 350 degrees.
- In a medium bowl combine dry ingredients and set aside.
- Mix together using an electric mixer the butter, brown sugar and white sugar.
- add eggs and vanilla and mix thoroughly.
- gradually stir in dry ingredients.  Be careful not to overmix, you'll toughen the flour.
- Add chocolate chips.

Distribute evenly onto baking sheet and bake for 11-13 minutes.
Cool and remove from tray.
ENJOY!

Your ingredients will look something like this:

Use an electric mixer.  Either a hand held mixer, or a stand mixer like this:

Cookies on the tray before baking:

Baked cookies look like this, time to enjoy!

Enjoy baking, and blessing your family or co-workers and friends with cookies!

Thanks for reading,

Cassie