How to Make Chocolate Chip Cookies

This chocolate chip recipe is going to be the best cookies that you have ever eaten in your life! They are soft, gooey, rich and full of delicious goodness that will melt right in your mouth. These cookies are simple and easy to make for potlucks, game day, desert for the family or whatever else you may want them for.

Soft shortenting

Butter

Sugar

Brown sugar (packed)

Egg

Vanilla

Flour

Soda

Salt

Chocolate chips

Preheating the oven first thing allows for the oven to be at the correct temperature by the time the cookie dough is stirred up. It also saves time by not having to wait on the oven to preheat after the dough is mixed and ready to go in the oven.

In a large mixing bowl, combine 1/3 cup shortening, 1/3 cup butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar (packed), 1 egg and 1 teaspoon vanilla.

Mixing the wet ingredients together ensures that everything will be mixed in properly. It also allows the butter to become softer instead of adding it straight into the dry mixture where everything would clump together and not allowing for the cookies to be nice and soft in texture.

In a separate large mixing bowl, combine 1 1/2 cups of white flour, 1/2 teaspoon soda, and 1/2 teaspoon salt

mixing these ingredients in a separate bowl allows for the flour, soda and salt to mix in well with each other before combining all ingredients together. Making sure that all ingredients are evenly distributed ensures that each bite will be flavorful and smooth in texture.

Combine the wet mixture and dry mixture together in one bowl and stir on medium-high in the mixer for about 3 minutes.

Mixing the ingredients for 3 minutes allows for all ingredients to mix together to have an even taste.

After the wet ingredients and dry ingredients have been mixed together for 3 minutes, add in 1 cup of milk chocolate chips for about 1 mintue.

Mixing the chocolate chips into the mixture for about one minute allows for all of the chocolate chips to be mixed in with the cookie dough but it is not too long for the chocolate chips to melt or break into pieces.

Place the cookie dough on a baking sheet in even rows, spacing about 1/2 inch in between each cookie. Bake cookies for 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees fahrenheit until they are golden brown on the edges. Let stand on baking sheet for 5 minutes to allow for cooling.

Spacing 1/2 inch allows there to be enough room for the dough to expand, to become a cookie but does not allow for all of the cookies to be touching each other once they are melted in the oven.

These cookies are excellent by themselves, but adding a scoop of vanilla ice cream to a bowl and crumbling the cookies is another great idea! Your guests are going to love these cookies, and they will be a hit anywhere and anyway that you serve them. Enjoy!