Classic chocolate chip cookies

Just makes you want to reach for a glass of milk, doesn’t it?

These are classic, easy, ridiculously nom-worthy chocolate chip cookies from my very favorite cookbook. Get the oven heating!

You will need:

• 1/4 cup softened butter
• 1/4 cup softened shortening
• 3/4 cup sugar — half brown, half white
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp. vanilla
• 1 1/8 cup flour
• 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 6 oz. chocolate chips (about 1 1/4 cups, or half a bag)

And then:

1. Mix together butter, shortening, sugar, egg and vanilla till creamy, but not fluffy
2. Sift together and stir in flour, soda, salt and mix in with wet ingredients
3. Add in chocolate chips and stir
4. Chill dough while oven is preheating to 375F
5. Drop rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased baking sheet, about 2″ apart
6. Bake 8-10 minutes until they are just barely starting to brown — Betty says “delicately browned.” I love that
7. Cool slightly on the cookie sheet, then move to a rack to cool completely

Makes about 3 dozen 2″ cookies. And they don’t last long.