Chocolate Chip Cookies

For those who have always drooled over my home-made chocolate chip cookies... here's your chance to try them yourself =] (PS - recipe courtesy of Nestle!)

Meal: Snack
Serves: About 2-3 dozen cookies
Start-to-Table Prep Time: About an hour

Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 sticks butter, softened
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips

Process:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Combine flour, baking soda, and salt in medium bowl. Set aside.
• In large bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla. Add eggs and beat in one at a time.
• Add in flour mixture a little at a time. Stir in the flour, don't beat it with the mixer.
• After all the flour is stirred in and a soft dough has formed, stir in the chocolate chips.
• Drop by rounded spoonfuls onto a baking sheet.
• Bake for 9-11 minutes or until golden brown. (You will probably have to repeat this process two or three times, depending on the size of your baking sheets and how many you have.)
• Once the cookies have been removed from the oven, take them off the baking sheet with a cookie turner and allow them to cool on a wire rack before storing.

It takes a little practice to get the art of cookie making perfected, but after you've done it once or twice it will be easier!