This classic cookie is an updated edition of the formula that appeared in the 1941 edition of the Better Homes and Gardens cookery book .
Get ready to make the best chocolate chip cookies from scratch . These easy chocolate chip cookie bear their shape and have a fragile chewiness from the jazz group of butter and shortening . Butter adds exceptional relish , and shortening proceed the cookie from spreading too much while baking . Be sure to match out the included recipe variation : macadamia nut and white chocolate scrap cookies , cocoa microchip cooky bars , giant burnt umber chip cookies , and umber splintering cookie pizzas . This chocolate chip cookie recipe has stood the trial of time and will likely become one of your best-loved recipes to make .
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Ingredients
½cupshortening
½cupbutter , mince
1cuppacked brown sugar
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½cupgranulated sugar
1tsp.baking soda
2eggs
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1tsp.vanilla
2 3/4cupall - purpose flour
112-oz.packagesemisweet chocolate pieces(2cups )
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1 1/2cupchopped walnuts , pecan , or hazelnuts ( optional )
Directions
Preheat oven to 375 ° F . In a enceinte mixing bowl beat shortening and butter with an electric mixer on medium to high speed for 30 seconds .
Add dark-brown sugar , grain sugar , and bake soda . ticktack on sensitive 2 bit , scraping bowl once in a while .
Test Kitchen Tip : Brown gelt is useable in both light and glowering varieties . Either works delicately here . sluttish dark-brown sugar is more subtle because it has less molasses . dingy brown sugar has a slenderly more pronounced and complex flavor similar to caramel or toffy .
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Beat in egg and vanilla until combined .
Beat in as much of the flour as you’re able to with the mixer . Using a wooden spoonful , stir in any remaining flour .
Stir in coffee pieces and , if desire , nuts .
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drop cloth dough by little spoonfuls 2 inches aside onto ungreased cookie sheets .
Bake 6 to 8 minutes or until edges are lightly brown ( cooky may not appear set ) . Cool on cookie sheet 2 moment . Transfer cookies to a wire wheel ; cool . make about 48 cookies .
Giant Chocolate Chip Cookies
Prepare as conduct , except use a 1/4 - loving cup dry measure or scoop to cut down mounds of dough about 4 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet . broil in a 375 ° F oven for 11 to 13 hour or until edges are lightly embrown . Makes about 20 cookies .
Macadamia Nut and White Chocolate Cookies
train as directed , except substitute chopped white baking bar or blanched cocoa baking square for the semisweet chocolate pieces . Stir in one 3½-ounce jarful macadamia en , chopped , with the chop white baking bars or square .
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars
develop as direct , except wardrobe dough into an ungreased 15x10x1 - inch baking pan . Bake in a 375 ° F oven for 15 to 20 min or until golden . Cool in pan on a wire stand . Cut into bar . Makes 48 measure .
Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizzas
Prepare as take aim , except do not excite inchocolate pieces and crank . Press one-half of the dough into an unlubricated 12 - inch pizza pie pan . pitter-patter half of the chocolate piece and half of the freak over the top , compress in softly . Repeat with a 2nd unlubricated 12 - inch pizza cooking pan and the remaining dough and topping . broil in a 375 ° F . oven about 15 minutes or until gilded . Frost as desired . reduce each pizza pie into 8 wedges , then cut a lap through wedge halfway between the midpoint and the edge of the pan . urinate 32 pieces full .
Nutrition Facts(per serving)
- The % Daily Value ( DV ) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a everyday diet . 2,000 calories a daytime is used for world-wide nutriment advice .
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