Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe comes with a warning. If you make these cookies, you wont be able to stop at one. It's addictive, makes you want to bake and eat any time or day of the week. Cookies just melt in the mouth. Kids might want to snatch away your share. So keep your share guarded. ;o)

I once had followed the recipe on the back on Nestle semi-sweet Morsels packet. And once I was browsing for any other chocolate chip cookie recipe and found that Joy of Baking has posted a recipe mentioning the same Nestle Toll house. So now I know I have been following fool proof recipe. :o) Here is a run down on the recipe.

Prep Time: 10 min | Baking Time: 10 ~ 15 min each batch | Makes: About 3 to 4 dozen.

Ingredients:

All Purpose-Flour - 2 1/4 Cup
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp.
Salt - 1/2 tsp.
Unsalted Butter - 1 Cup
Brown Sugar - 1 Cup
White Sugar - 1/2 Cup
Vanilla extract - 1 tbsp.
Eggs - 2
Semisweet dark chocolate chips - 1 1/2 to 2 Cup
Walnut - 1 Cup (optional)

Yummy cookie dough!

Method of Preparation:

~ Preheat the oven to 350 deg Fahrenheit.
~ In a small bowl sieve flour, baking soda and salt and keep it aside.
~ In another bowl beat melted butter and sugar until combined.
~ Now add the eggs and vanilla extract, beat until it becomes fluffy.
~ Add the dry ingredients and mix them with a spatula. Do not over mix.
~ Fold in chocolate chips and nuts if using.
~ On a cookie sheet, set a parchment paper. Scoop out cookie dough and drop them onto it. Keep them about 2 to 3 inches apart.
~ Bake for 15 minutes, take out leave it for few minutes to cool and then place them on wire rack to cool them completely.

Sending this off to Bon Vivant#10 - Festive Feasts going on at my space. 

And to Cook's Joy - Bake Fest#14,

Roshni's Show me your Hits, 

Spotlight - Healthy Baking @Recipe Junction,

FoodOMania's Christmas Cook-off

Priya's 60 Days to Christmas