Chocolate Chip Cookies

Objective:

Make and bake chocolate chip cookies

Recipe:

2 sticks (1 cup) butter
Remove from fridge, let soften at room temp for 30mins

Adjust oven racks: 1 rack above middle, 1 rack below middle
Preheat oven: 375 degrees

2 1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Combine in a small mixing bowl, creating a dry-mixture

3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cream butter and sugar together in large bowl until smooth
Use hand mixer or stand mixer if available.

2 eggs
Beat eggs one at a time, encorporating them into the wet mixture.

Add 1/3 dry-mixture to wet mixture large large bowl
Beat to combine, gradually encorporate the remaining dry-mixture.

2 cups (12 ounces) Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels
Stir in

2 baking sheets, ungreased or lined with parchment paper
Scoop 2 tablespoon sized balls of dough and drop onto sheet.

Bake at 375
Swap trays between upper/lower racks half way through (5minutes)
Remove when golden brown. (9-11 minutes total)
Cool on baking sheets (2 minutes).

2 wire cooling racks
Cookie Spatula
Move cookies from baking sheet onto wire racks using spatula
Let cookies cool.

Store in sealed container.

Discussion

This is the Original Nestlé Toll House Recipe re-written into my linear recipe style.

It includes one additional step not present in the original: swapping the cookie trays between the upper and lower oven racks. This results in a more consistent cookies when baking two trays worth at a time.

It was the first non-cocktail recipe added to the site.