Perfected Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Recipe bykatharinemcbride

Categories:
- Baked Good
- Chocolate
- Cookie
- Dessert

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Ingredients:

2 sticks + 2 tablespoons of softened no salt butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup dark brown sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla (the real stuff)
3 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 12oz bag semi sweet or milk (we prefer ghirardelli semi sweet)
1 cup chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans)-optional

We use a professional Kitchen Aid Mixer
Cream butter, sugar and add 1 egg at a time and then the other
Add vanilla
Mix flour baking soda and salt together and thouroughly mix tougether
Add flour/baking soda/salt mixture a little at a time, until all is mixed together
Add chocolate chips and mix a littel bit more, to avoid breaking teh chips up.
Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for at least two hours
Form into 1-1 1/2" disk (about 1/2" thick) and bake in a pre-heated oven at 375 of 8-10 minutes
Sometimes we bake monster cookies by forming 3" disk, 1/2 thick