Best Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Title: Best Chocolate Chip Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 39 servings

3/4 c Butter or margarine;
-softened
1/4 c Shortening
3/4 c Sugar
3/4 c Brown sugar; firmly packed
2 Eggs
1 ts Vanilla extract
2 1/4 c All-purpose flour
1 ts Baking soda
1/4 ts Salt
12 oz Semisweet chocolate morsels
Double chip cookies:
1 c Peanut butter or but
-terscotch
Morsels
6 oz Semisweet chocolate morsels

Recipe by: Southern Living
Preparation Time: 0:15
Cream butter and shortening; gradually add sugars, beating
well at medium speed of an electric mixer. Add eggs and
vanilla, beating well. Combine flour, soda, and salt; add
to creamed mixture, mixing well. Stir in chocolate
morsels. Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls onto ungreased
cookie sheets. Bake at 375 degrees for 9 to 11 minutes.
Cool slightly on cookie sheets; remove to wire racks to
cool completely. Yield: about 6-1/2 dozen.

DOUBLE CHIP COOKIES: Prepare Best-Ever Chocolate Chip
Cookies, using peanut butter morsels or butterscotch
morsels and semisweet chocolate morsels instead of 1
(12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate morsels. Jumbo
Chocolate Chip Cookies: Prepare Best-Ever Chocolate Chip
Cookies, dropping them onto ungreased cookie sheets by 1/4
cupfuls. Lightly press each cookie into a 3-inch circle
with fingertips. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 17 minutes.
Yield: 1-1/2 dozen.

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