Chocolate Chip Cookies

Chocolate Chip  Cookies

This recipe is adapted from the 1977 Betty Crocker cookbook my mom gave me when I married. It is older than I am and like many things with more age than me, it is full of wisdom to be gleaned.

• 2/3 cup Butter
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• 2 ts Vanilla extract
• 2 Eggs
• 3 cups All Purpose Flour
• 1 ts Salt
• 1 ts Baking Soda
• Chocolate Chips
• Other mix-ins as desired

Cream together 2/3 cup of softened butter with 1 cup Sugar, 1 cup Brown Sugar and two eggs
(I used half salted, half unsalted butter).

 Add 2 ts Vanilla (I filled my second ts 2/3 full and filled the remaining space with almond extract).

Blend in 3 cups All Purpose Flour (I used 1 cup White Whole Wheat/2 Cups regular ), Salt & Soda.

Toss in Chocolate Chips & Stir.

Lay out a long piece of plastic wrap and scoop dough onto wrap. Wrap dough into a long cylinder, seal well and refrigerate. (As you form the cylinder, think about the size of the cookies you are making... this should inform your cylinder's size... think 'slices')

This is the last third of my dough in cylinder form. I didn't think to take pictures until the cookie making was almost over. 

Place cookie sheet(s) in freezer.

Preheat Oven to 375 Degrees.

Busy yourself with something else while you wait...perhaps those dishes that you used to make the dough. Trust me, you are going to enjoy the cookies far more if the kitchen is already clean.

When the oven is ready, pull the trays from the freezer, the dough from the fridge. Cut cookie sized slices and arrange on chilled trays.

Bake 8-10 minutes.

Allow to firm on tray for approximately 1 minute.

Remove to cooling racks or large plate. Avoid stacking cookies on top of one another until they are set well.

Place cookie sheets back in freezer, dough back in fridge. Resist the urge to 'accidentally' break a cookie for sampling. Everyone knows the first batch is for giving... (unless they burn.)

Busy yourself for a few more minutes- perhaps you'll want to start a cup of coffee or go process the next phase in your laundry cycle.

When the cookie sheet and dough are cooled/chilled, repeat baking steps.

Repeat baking and cooling steps until all dough is used or you have enough cookies to enjoy with your coffee as well as share with your neighbors.

This recipe said it made about 2 dozen cookies,  however, the instructions called for dropping rounded tablespoons of dough onto cookie sheets. Using the sliced cookie method, we had at least 3 dozen, possibly a little more than that.

 We baked cookies as part of today's science lesson on minerals and mining. Like most things, homeschool life has its challenges. Eating cookies for Earth Science was not one of them.

(NOT eating all the cookies before we were ready for the lesson however...)