Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the recipe you’ve been looking for for those perfect classic chocolate chip cookies!  

You know the chocolate chip cookies I’m talking about… the perfect texture… soft but you can sink your teeth into them.  A slight crisp on the edges (but not too much).  Not puffy.  Not flat.  Basically perfection in a cookie and what dreams full of chocolate chip cookies are made of.

So here is the recipe!  Maybe it’s the one your mom used to make?  Try it and see!

INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup (two sticks) butter, softened
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 cups (12 oz. pkg) chocolate chips (I like milk chocolate)
• 1 cup chopped nuts (optional... and I always opt NO- ha!)

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
2. Cream butter, sugar, brown sugar and vanilla.
3. Add eggs and beat well.
4. Stir together flour, baking soda and salt in separate bowl and then add gradually to butter mixture.
5. Beat together well.
6. Stir in chocolate chips (and nuts, if you so desire).
7. Please visit Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies for full instructions.