Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Now, I've baked a lot of cookies in my time, and tried many recipes. This one is from my childhood friend, Jill. She and her sister used to live across the street and would come over and make cookies in our very tiny kitchen. This recipe truly is the best chocolate chip recipe I've ever had or made. But, as Lavarr likes to say (if you have kids, you'd recognize this reference), "don't take my word for it!"

Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda, dissolved in 1 tsp HOT water
1 cup flour
12 oz chocolate chips
2 cups nuts, chopped

Cream butter and the sugars together. Add eggs, vanilla and salt and mix together. Stir in 1 1/4 cup flour. Add baking soda mixture. Fold in 1 cup flour and stir together. Add in chocolate chips and nuts.

Drop by teaspoonsful onto greased, foil-lined cookie sheets, 2 inches apart. Flatten balls with wet spoon back to about 1/2" thick.

Bake at 375 degrees F. in upper third of oven about 12 minutes.

Store in airtight container, makes about 4 1/2 dozen 3" cookies