I've searched high and low for a good chocolate chip cookie recipe. I prefer my cookies to be really soft and chewy. I was so happy when I came across this one because it was exactly what I wanted!
This is the
basis of my recipe, though for whatever reason, I thought one stick of butter was a equal to a cup of butter. I don't know what made me think that because I did know that it was really just half a cup at some point in my life. I think. Well, recently someone corrected my error and that totally shifted my cooking world. I had to rack my brain to figure out if I made my cookies with 1 stick or 2 sticks of butter. I'm pretty sure I only used one stick because I always wondered why my cookie dough was particularly dry and crumbly so I would add a extra egg to moisten it up a bit. Then as I was looking over the original recipe (found in the link), I realized that I always added more flour! I guess I wrote that wrong...whoops. SO long story short, for the original recipe go
here (those cookies are good too), but my altered and equally good (if not better!) cookie recipe is below.
Ingredients
2-1/2 cups All-purpose flour
1 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 package Instant Vanilla pudding mix
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 package of chocolate chips (if you're going to make chocolate chip cookies, you gotta have lots of chips!)
1/2 cup nuts (optional)
1. Stir baking soda, flour, and salt. Set aside.
2. Combine butter, sugars, and pudding mix and beat until fluffy.
3. Add vanilla extract and eggs and beat until smooth.
4. Add dry ingredients and mix well.
5. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
6. Bake at 375* for 8 minutes. (**Very important note: if you want super chewy cookies, you must take them out of the oven as soon as they start to brown. Even if they look mushy and not cooked in the middle, that's ok. That's what makes them chewy! Also, if they don't flatten on their own, I'll smash them down a bit with a spatula after I take them out of the oven.)
What's your favorite cookie?? Post your favorite cookie recipe!
Also, this is my very favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. It's straight off the toll-house chocolate chip bag. Always use semi-sweet chocolate chips. If you take the cookies out when they still look undone in the middle, they will finish cooking (mostly) as they cool and still be soft. Love the soft, chewy cookies! (We also never add the nuts. we don't love nuts in our desserts.)
