Yummy Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Greetings from my kitchen!

I just had a taste for something sweet. I try to keep the basics in my kitchen. You can create just about anything if you stock your pantry with sugar, spices, flour, and butter. These ingredients are the base for so many things! I love to bake and love to be at home.

Home is truely where my heart is!

I have a very special Chocolate Chip recipe that I always use. I worked on the recipe for years. But I have had a tough year and still have things boxed up and can't locate them. So I decided to try a new recipe. It was a success! I used the ice cream scoop to make these. I had tons of cookie dough left for later!

Here is the recipe as promised! Toot-a-loo ( I say this when I am happy!)

Yummy Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 1/4 cups unsifted flour ( I used whole wheat unbleached)

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 tsp sea salt

1 cup butter ( 2 sticks)

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

2 tsp. vanilla

2 eggs

1/4 cup chopped pecans

Preheat your oven to 375.  Stir flour with baking soda and salt. Set this aside.

Beat the butter (room temp.) with the sugars at medium speed until creamy.

Add the vanilla and each egg, one at a time.

Mix this on a very low speed and then you can stir

in your nuts and chocolate chips.

Scoop out with an ice cream scoop on a buttered cookie sheet. I really like using the Ice cream scoop.

**(Update: I baked a second pan without using the ice cream scoop and cut them from the roll. I took one slice and cut it into 3 parts and baked. They were much smaller and they were good but I really like the larger size the best! It makes up a nice large cookie like you get at the fancy cookie shops!)

Bake 9 - 11 minutes until golden brown. I baked these large sized cookies for exactly 11 minutes and they were perfect.  The second batch that were smaller were cooked 9 minutes. Always check your oven about 2 minutes before the actual time, because all ovens are different. Remove from heat and let cool (if you can!) They are so yummy!

TIP: If you are like me, you won't need to bake the whole recipe at one time. I baked these and took the rest of the dough and rolled in in waxed paper. This enables me to have cookies later. You can also scoop them out on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and freeze them. Then once frozen move them to a freezer bag or container. This is a great way to freeze them for single people like myself. That way you have individual frozen cookies to pull out for the next sweet attack!

Enjoy!!!

Yummy Chocolate Chip Cookies!