I love baking, and there’s nothing greater than the feeling of perfecting a classic recipe. Okay, so maybe this recipe isn’t exactly perfected, but by experiment, it’s the closest I’ve gotten so far.
For this recipe, you’ll need:
– 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
– 1 teaspoon baking soda
– 1/2 teaspoon salt
– 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
– 2 eggs
– 1/2 cup white sugar
– 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
– 1 cup softened butter
– 2 cups chocolate chips
1. Start by pre-heating your oven to 350 degrees F.
2. Combine the flour, salt, and baking soda in a bowl.
3. In a separate bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Whisk the eggs into the mixture one by one and mix the entire combination until creamy and smooth. Then, add in the vanilla and mix everything together.
As a side note, be sure to use an electric mixture for this step- I didn’t, resulting in my wet ingredients to turn out looking a bit like throw-up. Not exactly the most aesthetically pleasing sight for me to photograph for a blog, so thus there isn’t a picture for this step. But don’t worry- your mixture should turn out to look like a combination of butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla (if that’s any help).
4. Slowly add portions of the wet ingredients to the dry, mixing as you go. Then, toss in the chocolate chips and voila!- your mixture is complete.
5. Drop uniform spoonfuls of the mixture onto an ungreased baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees F for around 10-12 minutes.
 
What ever you do, the most important thing to do is to not over bake, or you’ll end up with a cake-like cookie. I made this mistake on the first batch, which unfortunately was the only batch I took photos of. Good thing the above image is super zoomed in to conceal most of the evidence that the cookie was, in fact, cake like…D:
