My Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipes

BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add to batter along with salt. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, and nuts. Drop by large spoonfuls onto ungreased pans.
• Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.

OUR FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Place racks in upper and lower thirds of oven; preheat to 375°F. Line 2 rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper.
• Whisk flour, baking powder, salt, and baking soda in a medium bowl. Lightly beat eggs and vanilla in a small bowl.
• Using an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy, 3-4 minutes. Add egg mixture and beat, occasionally scraping down sides of bowl, until mixture is pale and fluffy, 3-4 minutes. Reduce mixer speed to low and gradually add dry ingredients, beating until just incorporated. Fold in chocolate with a spatula.
• Spoon about 12 heaping tablespoonfuls of dough onto each prepared sheet, spacing 1" apart. Chill dough 15 minutes on baking sheets before transferring to oven to prevent dough from spreading too much as it bakes.
• Bake cookies, rotating sheets halfway through, until just golden brown around the edges, 10-12 minutes (cookies will firm up as they cool). Let cookies cool on baking sheets 3 minutes, then transfer to wire racks and let cool completely. Let baking sheet cool completely before lining with fresh parchment and spooning on dough for the third batch of cookies.
• Do Ahead
• Dough can be made 3 months ahead. Wrap tightly and freeze. Cookies can be made 1 day ahead. Store in an airtight container at room temperature, or freeze up to 3 months.

BUTTERY CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE RECIPE

Steps:

• Kick the tires and light the fires to 375 degrees.
• Cream together your butter and sugar until it's light and fluffy.
• Add in the egg and vanilla, mixing thoroughly.
• Beat in the flour, baking soda and salt.When that is done, fold in the two cups of chocolate chips by hand, and prepare to put them on some parchment paper lined cookie sheets.
• Roll a heaping tablespoon of cookie dough into a ball, 12 per cookie sheet.
• Take a glass and using the bottom, flatten out each cookie. If the cookie sticks, start wetting the bottom of the glass with water, they will come right off.
• This is a dry dough - no sticky chewiness going on here- but it's just wet enough to make perfect little flat cookie patties.
• Bake at 375 for 9-11 minutes, until golden brown.
• Cool on the sheets completely.These turned out to be wonderfully crispy, crunchy and were surprisingly a hit with everyone. The butter flavor really is apparent in these ones due to the lack of flavor that comes with brown sugar, but that isn't a bad thing at all. Buttery, crispy little bites of chocolate heaven!

ALL-TIME FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Beat butter and sugars at medium speed with a heavy-duty electric stand mixer until creamy. Add eggs and 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla, beating until blended.
• Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl; gradually add to butter mixture, beating just until blended. Beat in morsels just until combined. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets.
• Bake at 350° for 10 to 14 minutes or until desired degree of doneness. Remove to wire racks, and cool completely (about 15 minutes).
• Flavor Cravings: All sorts of goodies can be added to Rebecca's recipe to create other signature cookies. Here are a few of our staff favorites.
• Chocolate Chip-Pretzel Cookies: Prepare recipe as directed, beating in 2 cups coarsely crushed pretzel sticks with morsels.
• Cranberry-White Chocolate Cookies: Substitute 1 (12-oz.) package white chocolate morsels, 1 (6-oz.) package sweetened dried cranberries, and 1 cup pistachios for chocolate morsels. Proceed as directed.
• White Chocolate-Covered Pretzel Cookies: Prepare recipe as directed, beating in 1 (7-oz.) bag white chocolate-covered mini pretzel twists, coarsely crushed, with morsels.
• Almond-Toffee Cookies: Substitute 6 (4-oz.) chopped chocolate-covered toffee candy bars and 1 1/2 cups toasted slivered almonds for chocolate morsels. Proceed as directed.
• Turtle Cookies: Substitute 1 (7-oz.) package milk chocolate-caramel-pecan clusters, coarsely chopped, and 1 (12-oz.) package dark chocolate morsels for semisweet chocolate morsels. Proceed as directed. Note: For testing purposes only, we used Nestlé Turtles.
• Nutty Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Cookies: Decrease salt to 1/2 tsp. Decrease morsels to 1 (12-oz.) package. Add 1 cup creamy peanut butter with butter and sugars, and add 1 cup lightly salted peanuts with morsels. Increase flour to 2 1/2 cups plus 2 Tbsp. Proceed as directed. (Dough will look a little moist.)

MY FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• Use a medium speed on the mixer to beat the shortening and the butter together till almost smooth.
• Add 1/2 the flour, the dark brown sugar, sugar, eggs, vanilla, baking soda.
• Beat till combined well.
• Beat in the remaining flour.
• Stir in chocolate chips (or other option).
• Drop onto cookie sheet in tablespoon size drops, about 2-3 inches apart.
• (It also works to roll into 1-1/2 inch balls and space at 2-1/2 inches).
• Bake@ 375 for 8-10 minutes or until edges are light brown.
• Cool on rack& enjoy.
• Extremely good while warm.
• Especially delicious after cooled.
• Store in Ziploc or sealed container.

MY FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°.
• Cream butter flavor Crisco, brown sugar, milk and vanilla in large bowl. Blend until creamy. Blend in egg.
• Combine flour, salt and baking soda.
• Add to creamed mixture, gradually.
• Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
• Drop rounded tablespoonfuls (about 2 measuring tablespoons) of dough 3" apart on ungreased baking sheet.
• Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes for chewy cookies (they will look light and moist).
• DO NOT OVERBAKE or 11 to 13 minutes for crisp cookies.
• Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes.
• Transfer to cool rack.
• 3 dozens 3-inch cookies. Note: if nuts are omitted, use 1-1/2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips.
• Note: I add 2 Tbsp of additional flour per batch. This makes the batter a little easier to spoon out on to the cookie sheet, and gives you a more full bodied cookie that is still chewy, gooey and delicious, without being flat, hard and crunchy.

MY FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream shortening, butter, and sugars in large mixing bowl; blend in eggs and vanilla.
• Combine dry ingredients and add to butter mixture.
• Mix until well blended.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• Drop by rounded teaspoon onto ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake at 375° for 7-10 minutes until golden brown.
• **I like chewy cookies and if you do too, adjust the baking time accordingly).

MY FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 and arrange nuts on baking sheet and toast for 7 to 9 minutes. Cool and coarsely chop.
• Grease baking sheet generously with butter or cookng spray. Cream butter and both sugars togethter about 1 minute, until fluffy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat on medium speed for 1 minute. Add the flour, baking soda and salt. Mix on medium speed until incorporated. Stir in walnuts, pecans and chocolate chips. The dough will be relatively stiff.
• Drop the dough on cookie sheets using an ice cream scoop about 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown on edges (Don't worry about the raw dough in the middle, it will disappear as the cookies cool.) The cookies will spread about 3 1/2 inches in diameter.

MY KIDS' FAVORITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Cream butter and sugars well until lighter in color and fluffy.
• Add egg, egg yolk, milk, and vanilla and mix well.
• Add 1 cup of the flour, the baking soda and the salt, mix well.
• Add remaining flour(s)and mix well.
• Add chocolate chips and mix well.
• Drop by spoonfuls onto cookie sheets and bake for 8-10 minutes.

MOM'S BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar. Beat in the eggs one at a time then stir in the vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Finally, mix in the chocolate chips. Shape dough into golf ball sized balls and place them 3 inches apart into ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten slightly.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.