Friday, December 5, 2008

Let's start with a classic....

It's cookie time here in Keira's Kitchen and I have been baking up a storm! Almost every other day I find myself hanging out in the kitchen trying to decide what kind of cookies to make now. Snickerdoodles, sugar cookies, chocolate peppermint snaps, butter cookies, forgotten kisses or.... Chocolate Chips Cookies!!!!


So I figure we could start off with a classic for cookie season, Chocolate Chip cookies. It is the all American cookie and a staple around the holidays. Whether you choose to us classic semi-sweet morsels or M&M's there is really nothing quite like Chocolate Chip cookies!

Like a lot of people, I like to stick with the classic Toll House Chocolate Chip recipe. It's simple and I haven't met anyone who doesn't like these cookies.

Toll House Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 1/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 large eggs
1 cup chopped nuts (but I never put this in because it just seems wrong!)
2 cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels

Preheat your oven to 350
Combine flour, baking soda and sugar in a separate bowl. Beat butter, both sugars and vanilla extract in a large mixer bowl until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Add chocolate morsels.
Bake for 11 to 13 minutes until golden brown. (I usually start checking it at about 8 minutes because I like mine really soft but that's just me.)


And then you get to eat some really delicious cookies. These never last very long at our house especially when friends and family know I have been baking, everybody all of a sudden "is just in the neighborhood." Hahaha. I'll just be flattered. ;)

Enjoy.

xoxo,
K

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