Coral Chocolate Chip Cookies

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Title: Coral Chocolate Chip Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 24 servings

1/2 c Butter; softened
1/2 c Sugar; (8 tbs)
5 tb Brown sugar
2 dr Vanilla extract
1 Egg
3/4 c Flour
1/8 ts Baking soda
1 pn Salt
1 c Chocolate chips
1/4 c Pecans; chopped

In a medium bowl place the butter, sugar, and brown sugar. Cream the
ingredients together so that they are well mixed. Add the vanilla extract
and egg, and mix them in. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
Add small amounts of the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and mix it in
well. Add the chocolate chips and pecans, and mix them in well. Form the
dough into balls that are 1" in diameter. Refrigerate them for 1/2 hour.

Preheat the oven to 325F. Cover a baking sheet with baker's parchment
paper. Place the dough balls on the sheet so that they are 1-1/2" apart.
Bake the cookies for 12 to 15 minutes, or until they, brown around the
edges and light brown in the center. Let the cookies sit for 15 minutes
before serving them. Makes 20 to 24.
Julian Drummond, chef, Coral Cafe, Redondo Beach, CA Located in the
Sheraton Hotel, the chef serves contemporary California cuisine in a
garden-like setting. He claims he eats 4 or 5 of these cookies a day, to
get his chocolate fix. From: So. Calif Beach Recipe, Stromquist and
Stromquist (1990).

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