I find myself baking a lot of things, but I always seem to come back to the simple chocolate chip cookie. After trying a lot of different variations on different recipes, I’ve decided that this recipe turns out the best results.

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups of flour (plus 3 teaspoons)
• 3/4 teaspoons of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda
• 8 tbsp of butter
• 1 1/2 cups of brown sugar
• 1/2 cup of granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 tsp of Vanilla
• 2 cups of semisweet baking chocolate chips

Steps

1. Combine the flour, salt, and baking soda in a medium sized bowl. Stir until combined.

2. Cream the softened butter with the brown sugar. Once combined, add in the white sugar. I used a stand mixer but this can be done with an electric hand mixer as well. If using a stand mixer use the whisk attachment.

3. Mix the eggs and vanilla in with the butter and sugar

4. Slowly mix in the flour mixture with the sugar mixture. Mix on low speed until combined.

5. Stir in the chocolate chips with a hand whisk or a spatula

6. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper. Create 1 – 1 1/2 inch balls of cookie dough and lay them on the sheet ~ 3 to 4 inches apart from one another. Flatten with the bottom of a spoon.

7. Bake for 14-16 minutes in the preheated oven. The cookies should turn out like this.

And enjoy! These cookies are great with milk, straight out of the oven, basically in any circumstance. This recipe makes around eighteen cookies.