Chocolate Chip Cookies

In 1930, the chocolate chip cookie was invented by Ruth Wakefield at the Toll House Inn in Massachusetts. The story goes that one day she decided to add chunks of Nestle's Semisweet Yellow Label chocolate bar to her butter cookies. The cookies were an instant hit and Nestle went on to buy the right to the name "Toll House" and began printing Wakefield's cookie recipe on the back of their bags of chocolate chips.

It's taken some time, but I think I have finally found my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe, and it happens to be very similar to the original recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) of unsalted butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup granulated white sugar
• 3/4 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 - 2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and put rack in the center of the oven.
2. In the bowl of your electric mixer, beat the butter until smooth.
3. Add the white and brown sugars and then beat until fluffy.
4. Beat eggs in one at a time. Be sure to beat well after each addition.
5. Beat vanilla in until fully incorporated.
6. In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and salt using a whisk or a fork.
7. Add about half of the flour mixture to the egg mixture and blend well.
8. Next, beat in your chocolate chips and then beat in the rest of your flour mixture.
9. Place rounded tsp of dough on ungreased cookie sheet and bake for 9-14 minutes until brown around the edges.

If cookies are spread out too much while baking, make sure your cookie sheets are completely cooled before putting dough on them.

If the edges or bottoms of your cookies are burning, chances are your oven is too hot.

Happy Baking!