THE Chocolate Chip Cookies

These are the best chocolate chip cookies I have EVER tried.

I typed each thing into Google and there are about 5 million cookie recipes in the world, 2 million different types of chocolate chip cookie recipes, and about 1,000 types of Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip cookies. That is A LOT of searching, so I'll narrow it down for you. This recipe is a classic, just chocolate chip cookies, no M&Ms, no nuts, nothing but chocolate.

Ingredients:
1 cup softened butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups flour
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 twelve-ounce bags of semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350. In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla. In another bowl, mix together the flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda. Combine wet and dry ingredients. Stir in chocolate chips. With your fingers, place golf ball sized dough portions 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 10 minutes, or just until edges are light brown.
Makes 30 cookies.

Author's Note

When neighbors hand out baking gifts, it seems that all of them have to hand out very weird, but pretty, desserts that nobody really likes. If everyone would just hand out classic and popular desserts, like plain chocolate-chip-cookies, everyone would be so much happier.