Sunday, August 12, 2012

Shaylee’s Awesome chocolate chip cookies



Ingredients:
1c Vegetable Oil or Coconut oil
1c Soft Butter (NOT margarine)
1 ½ c sugar
1 ½ c brown sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla

Dry Ingredients : (mix  or sift in a separate bowl)
5 ½ c Flour
1 ½ tsp Baking Soda
1 ½ tsp Salt
2 Bags Chocolate Chips (1 milk chocolate, 1 semi-sweet)

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix Shortening, butter & sugars. Add the eggs & Vanilla, mix for a full 3 minutes. It should be nice and fluffy.  Add ½ of the dry mix to the butter mix, slowly add the rest. And finally add the chocolate chips.

Scoop onto an ungreased cookie sheet, bake for 8-9 minutes.

My (hopefully helpful) Hints:
·      Don’t skimp on the creaming of the butter and sugars, the fluffier the better, it makes for a lighter fluffier cookie.

·      Smash the cookies down a little, (not flat, just not a round ball) they don’t spread much.

·      My oven runs hot so I reduce the temp to 340-345 degrees, and increase the baking time to 10-11 minutes.

·      Don’t wait for cookies to brown, they still “bake” after you remove them from the oven. I let mine sit on the cookie sheet for a few minutes before moving them to cool.

****Made from mixing a couple of different recipes, and working on some "healthier" substitutions (using raw sugar, whole wheat or oat flour, all butter for shortening, banana as an egg substitution...yea, we'll see)***

1 comment:

Briana said...

hmmm, maybe i need to try the smashing tip. i hate cookies that have spread too much and i have that problem often. your picture looks like cookies JUST the way we like them here - chewy and thick and delightful.