Ingredients for Chocolate Chip Cookies:

1 cup shortening (Crisco)
1 cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
½ tsp. vanilla
2 eggs
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 package semi sweet chop chips (12 oz)
2 cups + 2 Tbl flour
½ cup chopped nuts (optional)

Making Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

The first thing you need to do to start making chocolate chip cookies is preheat the oven to 375 degrees. This is so that when you finish making the cookie dough, you can immediately start baking.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

Now use a large mixing bowl to combine all the wet ingredients – shortening, eggs, and vanilla. It’s best to use something like a spatula for this to help work the shortening. Once you have mixed these together well, blend in the white and brown sugar as well.

In a different bowl, you’ll want to put in the rest of the dry ingredients – the salt, baking soda, and flour. Use a fork to make sure the dry ingredients are evenly distributed amongst each other.

After that, put half of the dry ingredients into the wet bowl. Blend them in with your spatula until the mixture smooths out then add the other half of the dry ingredients and blend until smooth again. The reason you don’t want to dump the dry in all at once is because it can cause your chocolate chip cookies to become clumpy.

Now that your dough is starting to take form, you can add in your chocolate chips as well as chopped nuts if you like them with chocolate like we do!

Baking Chocolate Chip Cookies

With the dough all made, it’s time to start making the cookies. First though, get a cookie sheet and rub it with a light coat of shortening using a paper towel. This will make sure your cookies don’t stick to the surface as they’re baking.

Use a spoon to get about a tablespoon of cookie dough then roll the dough into a little ball with your hands or an ice cream scooper works good as well, but don’t get too much dough or your cookie will be huge! Place the cookie dough balls about 2-3” apart so that they have plenty of room to spread out while baking without running into each other.

Once your cookie sheet is full of dough balls, put it in the preheated oven and bake them for 8 – 10 minutes. It won’t take long once you put the sheet in for that unforgettable aroma of warm baking cookies to fill your entire home!

Time for Chocolate Chip Cookies

After the cookies are done baking in the oven, pull them out and let them cool on the sheet for about 2-3 minutes. When they’re done cooling, use a spatula to put them on a plate or preferably a cooling rack. Allow them to cool another 5 minutes or so before eating, or they might burn mouths.

Chocolate chip cookies are perfect by themselves with a tall glass of milk or break them apart and put them in vanilla ice cream for easy chocolate chip cookie ice cream!

Store the cookies you don’t eat right away in an airtight container, so that they won’t become stale over time. Be sure to let us know if you liked our chocolate chip cookie recipe or if you want to share your own recipe!

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