Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies
Well it took a warning for the snow storm “of the year” to bring me back to getting a post up! I have had a file on my desktop with random notes, recipes and thoughts that I have wanted to put up on here, but just couldn’t get myself together to post something that made sense! Through the craziness of the beautiful holiday season and then into the first month of cleaning everything (including my eating habits) up, I found a recipe that I want to share with you. This recipe is not something that is healthy for you but I do stand by the fact that they are “good” for you…because these cookies make me smile, maybe even dance a little and they just make me feel good!!!
Since the beginning of January, I have been allowing myself two sweet treats a day-this cookie should count as two treats I’m sure. But the heck with it I eat two a day when I make them and don’t blink an eye! Make it worth it, make the not-so-healthy items you put into your body worth the 1/2 of your sweet intake each day. I really encourage anyone who struggles with a sweet tooth as much as I do, to try this way of kicking the habit. Now here it is…the most amazing cookie recipe EVER! Please enjoy 
recipe adapted from my bakingbakingaddiction.com
2 sticks cold butter, cut into pieces
1 c. sugar
1c. brown sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 3/4 c. all purpose flour
1 tsp. fine sea salt
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1 c. dark chocolate chips
1 1/2 c. milk chocolate chips (I love the Ghiradelli Brand)
-Preaheat oven to 375-degree. Mix butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mix in vanilla until well combined.
-Whisk together flour, salt, powder and soda. Add to butter mixture and mix until almost combined; add chocolate chips and finishing mixing.
-Form into 4 ounce portions (I used a large scoop, like the size for ice cream) and place on a cookie sheet. Bake 15-20 minutes. Start at 15 and if the edges are brown take them out!
-Let cool, if you can resist which I never can! The cookies are best right out of the oven but pop them in the microwave for a few seconds to heat back up later.
Yields: 10-12 large cookies
buy LOCAL. cook FRESH. eat PURE.
Amanda
Can’t wait to try these! I got Kim Boyce’s “Good to the Grain” for Christmas and she has what is supposedly a STELLAR whole wheat chocolate chip cookie recipe. If there’s whole wheat in it, I stand by the fact that the cookies are, in fact, a health food.