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Chocolate Chip Cookies and Variations
Nb persons: 0
Yield: about 5 dozen
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Total time: 45 minutes
Source: Southern Living Sept. 2008
| 3/4 c. | butter, softened |
| 3/4 c. | sugar |
| 3/4 c. | brown sugar |
| 2 large | eggs |
| 1 1/2 tsp. | vanilla |
| 2 1/4 c.+ 2 Tb. | all-purpose flour |
| 1 tsp. | salt |
| 1 1/2 (12 oz.) pkg. | semisweet chocolate morsels |
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Beat butter and sugars at medium speed with a heavy-duty mixer until creamy. Add eggs and 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla, beating until blended. Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl; gradually add to butter mixture, beating just until blended. Beat in morsels just until combined. Drop by Tb. onto parchment paper-lined baking sheets. Bake at 350 degrees for 10-14 minutes or until desired degree of doneness. Remove to wire racks, and cool completely (about 15 minutes).
Chocolate Chip-Pretzel Cookies: Prepare recipe as directed, beating in 2 c. coarsely crushed pretzel sticks with morsels.
Almond-Toffee Cookies: Stubstitute 6 (1.4 oz.) chopped chocolate-covered toffee candy bars and 1 1/2 c. toasted almond slivers for chocolate morsels. Proceed as directed.
Turtle Cookies: Substitute 1 (7 oz.) pkg. milk chocolate-caramel-pecan clusters, coarsely chopped, and 1 (12 oz.) pkg. dark chocolate morsels for semisweet chocolate morsels.
Nutty Peanut Butter-Chocolate Chip Cookies: Decrease salt to 1/2 tsp. Decrease morsels to 1 (12 oz.) pkg. Add 1 c. creamy peanut butter with butter and sugars, and add 1 c. lightly salted peanuts with morsels. Increase flour to 2 1/2 c. + 2 Tb. Proceed as directed. (Dough will look a little moist.)
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