Simple Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe |
Chocolate chip cookies are a staple of most households, whether they are packaged or home baked. Most of us remember being given chocolate chip cookies as a kid and often wish that we could find a recipe that makes cookies as good as the cookies our Moms made. Of course, because our lives are busier and multi-tasking has become the norm, most of us want a tasty and simple chocolate chip cookie recipe. We did a search for a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe and here is one of the tastiest recipes we could find.
If going to the store and buying pre-packaged chocolate chip cookies or heating up frozen cookie dough that is squeezed from tubes is not your idea way of creating delicious chocolate chip cookies, here is a quick and simple chocolate chip cookie recipe that you can follow:
Here are the ingredients that you are going to need:
One cup of butter that has been warmed up to room temperature
Three fourths of a cup of white sugar (granulated)
One and one fourth cups of firmly packed brown sugar
Two eggs
Two teaspoons of vanilla extract
Two and a half cups of flour (all purpose)
Three fourths of a teaspoon salt
One teaspoon of baking powder
One teaspoon of baking soda
Chocolate Chips—two to three cups (this varies depending on how “chippy” you want your cookies to be)
First, start preheating your oven to three hundred and fifty degrees. While your oven is preheating, do the following:
In a large bowl, mix together the butter, the white sugar and the brown sugar until they have formed a light colored creamy mixture. Beat in the eggs and the vanilla. In another bowl mix together the baking soda, the baking powder and the all purpose flour. Slowly add the dry ingredients (flour mix) to the wet ingredients (butter, etc) and mix together thoroughly. The last ingredients to add are the chocolate chips. Add as many chocolate chips as you like.
Once you have mixed your dough, shape it into balls that are about an inch and a half around. Place the dough balls onto an ungreased cookie sheet and make sure they are about two inches apart. Bake the cookies at three hundred and fifty degrees for eight to ten minutes or as long as it takes for the cookies to have light brown edges.
This simple chocolate chip cookie recipe makes four or five dozen cookies, depending on the size of the cookies you are baking. Some people like to add oatmeal or nuts to their cookies to give them a little bit more texture, but that is up to the baker. Another tip if you want to make sure your cookies are perfect is to place the dough on cool cookie sheets. If you only have one cookie sheet, rinse it off with cold water and dry it thoroughly between cookie batches. Cool the cookies on wire cooling racks before placing them onto their cookie plate and you are in business!
Tip #1
You can save cookie making time by mixing your ingredients while your oven preheats. That way your dough can go right into the oven when you finish mixing your ingredients. You can also save time by cleaning up as you go along. Rinse off the measuring spoons and the bowls as you finish using them. Wash the rest of the dishes as the cookies are baking and cooling. |
Tip #2
Shortening is one of the single worst things you can put into your body. If a recipe calls for shortening you should substitute butter or margarine for it. Butter and margarine can be used interchangeably unless a recipe specifically says to use one or the others. Don't worry about the calories and talk yourself into using low calorie or whipped butter. These substitutes will ruin the taste of the cookies. |
Tip #3
Rotate your cookie sheets. Cookies form best on ungreased and cooled cookie sheets. After you transfer cookies from the sheet to the cooling rack, you should rinse off the used sheet and get it prepped for another batch of cookies. Using a warmed sheet can overcook the cookies. |
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