The recipe below is the famous Toll House recipe with 3 changes: I double the vanilla, increase the flour by 1/4 cup and substitute dark brown sugar for light. The dark brown sugar substitution is pretty much a given for most anything I cook. I personally like my cookies to be a little thicker than the normal recipe, and the extra flour gives the cookie a little more body in addition to compensating for the extra vanilla and changes introduced by the dark brown sugar.
Preheat Oven to 375° F
1 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
3/4 cup granulated [white] sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 bag of dark chocolate chips (variation: 12 oz. bag of M&Ms)
Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until golden brown. Let stand for 1 - 2 minutes on cookie sheets before transferring wire cooling racks. Use a swift motion with spatula to cleanly remove the cookies from the cookie sheets.
Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Mix 1 cup of regular (salted) butter at high speed until smooth.
Mix in 2 eggs on low to medium speed.
Add 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
Add 3/4 cup of white sugar. Mix thoroughly on medium speed.
Scrape down sides of bowl and continue mixing.
Add 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.
Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to 2 1/2 cups of flour.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt.
Mix dry ingredients together thoroughly.
Slowly add dry ingredients to dough in small amounts while mixing at slow speed.
Scrap down sides of bowl and mix on low until blended.
Properly dispose any leftover dough.
Reserve a few chips in case the last bit of dough you scrape out don't have enough.
Mix in chips by hand sine most mixers will break the chips.
Scoop out enough dough for a ball.
Start forming into ball, adding or removing dough to get consistent size.
Roll dough gently and quickly between palms. Too much rolling will heat dough.
Hold rolled ball next to previously rolled ball to ensure consistent size. Add or remove dough as necesary.
Space dough evenly on ungreased cookie sheet.
Bake 11 - 13 minutes at 375°F until edges just begin to brown.
Let cool briefly on cookie sheets to allow cookie to firm up a little.
Remove from cookie sheets and let cool on cooling racks.
Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Chocolate Chip Cookies.
