Name: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Total time: 80 min
Ingredients: 1 cup granulated sugar; 1 cup packed dark brown sugar; 1 cup margarine (softened); 1/3 cup shortening; 2 large eggs; 2 teaspoons vanilla; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; 3 cups flour; 1 cup chopped nuts (optional) (walnuts, pecans, or hazelnuts); 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (12 ounce package)

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Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is the classic chocolate chip cookie.

Based on a recipe from Betty Crocker's Cookbook, New and Revised Edition, Golden Press, NY, 1983, p 266.

Total Time1 20

Course: Desserts - Cookies

Author: Catherine Christiano

Ingredients

1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup packed dark brown sugar
1 cup margarine softened
1/3 cup shortening
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups flour
1 cup chopped nuts (optional) walnuts, pecans, or hazelnuts
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips 12 ounce package

Instructions

Position oven racks so top rack is one-third from the top and bottom rack is one-third up from the bottom. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Gather two baking sheets and cooling racks.
In the large bowl of a stand mixer, mix sugars, margarine, shortening, eggs, and vanilla until uniform. Stir in remaining ingredients.
Place rounded teaspoonfuls of dough approximately 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, until light brown. If baking two sheets at once, rotate halfway through. Remove from oven. Allow to cool one minute before using spatula to transfer cookies to cooling rack.