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Family Favourite Chocolate Chip Cookies

Is there anything more delicious than a chocolate chip cookie? Is there anything we hunt for more than the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe? When I was a university student, I spent my summers working as a pioneer in a local pioneer village. I learned a lot about baking and cooking during those summers.

chocolate chip cookies on a plate

Little-known fact about currants in cookies...women would put currants in cookies and other baked goods to hide the flies that would get into the dough by mistake. Yummy, right? Maybe that is where chocolate chip cookies came from...necessity is the mother of invention. I'm not sure who the first person was who decided to drop morsels of chocolate chips into cookie dough, but I love them. Wherever they came from, we love them, and we have perfected a simple and not-so-secret recipe. Our go-to recipe is the one on the back of the Chipits bag of chocolate chips. The secret is I cut down the amount of chocolate chips, and I turn down the temperature. These two changes have led to some stellar batches of cookies. My little kitchen tip is, I cut out the recipe and store it in the jar with the chocolate chips. This way, I can buy my chips in bulk and still use the Chipits recipe. I do the same thing for rice. An easy way to have the recipe right on hand when I go to bake.

glass jar filled with chocolate chips

Family Favourite Chocolate Chip Cookies

(adapted from Chipits)

1 cup room-temperature butter

1 cup packed brown sugar

½ cup granulated sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

½ teaspoon salt

1 cup chocolate chips

1. Cream butter and sugars in a large bowl. (When my butter isn't at room temperature, I chop it up small and it creams much easier)

2. Beat in eggs and vanilla...set aside.

butter and sugar mixed with eggs and vanilla in mixing bowl

3. Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl. (Use a whisk to sift the ingredients together)

flour and chocolate chips in a mixing bowl

4. Stir in chocolate chips (could use milk, dark, or white chocolate chips)

5. In two batches, add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until the dough forms.

chocolate chip cookie dough in a bowl

6. Place 1 tablespoon portions of cookie dough onto parchment-lined baking sheets.

balls of chocolate chip cookie dough on baking sheet

7. Bake in a 350°F oven for 10-12 minutes...or until edges are golden brown.

chocolate chips baked on a baking sheet

8. Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

Sometimes I will make up the dough, throw some plastic wrap over the bowl and pop it into the fridge while I run errands. When I'm ready to bake, I just pull it out of the fridge, and the dough is ready to go. That's it. So simple. We enjoy our cookies with a glass of milk or with a bowl of vanilla ice cream. How do you like to eat your chocolate chip cookies? Do you add nuts? Do you add anything else to your chocolate chip cookies?

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About Jen

Jen Farr is a mother living in Toronto, Canada. She has been sharing her DIY crafts, recipes, activities and parenting advice for over 15 years on her blog Kitchen Counter Chronicle. Jen is the mom of 2 lovely daughters. She believes in the power of taking small steps that can make big impacts on the world.

Comments

  1. Rebecca says

    January 24, 2013 at 2:12 pm

    I've been taping recipes/cooking directions to jars but they keep falling off. I'm going to start just dropping them in there. Thanks!

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