I am so excited to start blogging again and sharing all sorts of fun and interesting things with you! I felt that it was fitting, on my first official day back on my blog, to share with you my grandma's chocolate chip cookie recipe. Its my go to treat whenever I want to greet the kids home from school, share something nice with the neighbors or eat 24 cookies in one day because I'm anxious about something {but that's a whole other blog post}. I get asked for the recipe all the time...these cookies are that good! I've tried lots of other recipes and none compare, although all of the warm and fuzzy memories that are associated with being a little girl and helping my grandma make the cookies and eating the dough, I'm sure make me a bit bias. My grandma and grandpa have always live just a few houses down from where my parents live. My grandparents and my parents have lived in the same houses ever since before I was born, almost 40 YEARS AGO...WOW! {another blog post on that later too!} Most days after school I would walk down to my grandparent's house and take a handful from the cookie jar, before I fiddled on the piano or jumped on my uncle's water bed..ha, ha! Mmmmm....memories!
The recipe below makes about 2 dozen cookies, I usually double it, because they don't last long in my house. Sometimes I add walnuts or pecans, because my husband is nuts...I mean, he likes nuts...and sometimes I use milk chocolate chips instead of semi-sweet, but no matter what, they are always heaven!
Oh...and my grandma says that you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO mix the dry and the wet ingredients in two separate bowls and then slowly combine them. That's how you avoid a flat cookie!
So here we go...
preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
mix the dry ingredients in a medium bowl:
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
mix the wet ingredients in a large bowl:
1/2 cup of vegetable shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla
Then this is what I do... I add about 1/3 of the flour mixture into the wet bowl and mix it together with a fork. Then add another 1/3 and mix, and the rest and mix. I never use a mixer, I always use a fork to doing all of the mixing. After its all mixed together, I add about 3 oz of chocolate chips {or about a half or the bag, or 6 oz when I double the recipe} The recipe does call for more chocolate chips but I like to taste more of the batter...mmm.
Here's where you can sneak some bites of the delicious dough if you want to...WARNING: please keep in mind that the dough does contain raw egg, so I never let my kids eat it...I always sneak...hee, hee!
Now just plop a little more than a tablespoon full on your cookie sheet {I only have an old pizza pan, and that's what I use... I know its ugly} and put them in the over for 10-11 minutes. I like to watch toward the end and take them out when the edges are just getting golden. They will seem not fully cooked when you take them out after 10-11 minutes, but trust me...take them off the pan and put them on to a cooling rack and they will be pure deliciousness in just a couple minutes!
{I think I must've left these in for 12 minutes because they look a little more cooked than I like...that's ok, just dunk them in your milk an extra second or two}
So here's the whole recipe one more time:
Grandma's Chocolate Chip Cookies
preheat your oven to 375 degrees.
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup of vegetable shortening
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon of vanilla
6 oz. of semi-sweet chocolate chips
bake 10-12 minutes
Make these this weekend and let me know what you think! And for those of you who have come over from my facebook page to get the coupon code to use in my etsy store...here you go...get 20% off everything, this weekend only! Yippee!! Use coupon code: COOKIE20 at check out!
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xoxo.
