Chocolate Chip Cookies

[veryolddog]

The wife decided to give a plate of cookies to some friends for a token of Christmas sharing. So, I was charged to produce a batch of Chocolate Chip Cookies and maybe tomorrow some thumb print cookies to go with this. In any event, I had another chance to use my new Kitchen Aid mixer and to give it a work out. Here's my Mom's recipe from my memory. Just to let you know, these are soft cookies and not hard like rock chocolate chip cookies.

INGREDIENTS:

4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups butter, softened - 4 sticks
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla
pudding mix
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

DIRECTIONS:
1.   Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour and baking soda, set aside.
2.   In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips and nuts. Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
3.   Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Edges should be golden brown.

Cookie Batter all mixed.

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Batch in the oven.

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Batch, just out of the oven.



Another batch.



Another batch ready to go in the oven. Only have one cookie sheet at present. One coming tomorrow, so I used a pizza pan as well. Adapt, improvise, overcome!


Cookies waiting for the wife to do her package thing and make everything look festive and in the spirit of Christmas.



This recipe makes between 4 and 5 dozen. Tastes real good. I had to try one. But, that's got to be it.

Merry Christmas


Ed

[sliding_billy]

Sounds good.  I'll bet that new mixer did great.

[Pam Gould]

Veryolddog..go to Sam's club and for less than $7.00 you can get a set of 2, 1/2 sheet pans. If you can spare the change..get a couple of Silpats.. keeps things from sticking and they really work for anything you bake.  Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི

[Pappymn]

Looks like a winner to me. You can't have too many sheet pans. Get mine at a restaurant supply place

[CDN Smoker]

Those look great now I feel like a glass of mild

[pz]

My goodness those like like chocolaty, chewy goodness!

[HighOnSmoke]

Those look delicious Ed! The only thing that would make them better is if they were peanut butter chocolate
chip cookies!!

[deestafford]

Thanks for posting this . I've been wanting to do some cookies and couldn't make of my mind as to which to do. These will do it.

Pam, you really like those mats?  I was given some and have not tried them yet.  I've heard mixed reviews as to how well t hey brown.  I know what I'll do!!!  I'll so one of them there 'speriments by doing some on bakin' sheet and some on  the mats and   then observe which is gooder and the write an article with pictures for Bon Appiteteee and become famous.

Dee

[Pappymn]

Thanks for posting this . I've been wanting to do some cookies and couldn't make of my mind as to which to do. These will do it.

Pam, you really like those mats?  I was given some and have not tried them yet.  I've heard mixed reviews as to how well t hey brown.  I know what I'll do!!!  I'll so one of them there 'speriments by doing some on bakin' sheet and some on  the mats and   then observe which is gooder and the write an article with pictures for Bon Appiteteee and become famous.

Dee

I just use parchment.....nothing to wash

[Smokin Don]

That is my wife's favorite cookie VOD, they look good!!! Don

[deb415611]

cookies look great!

Thanks for posting this . I've been wanting to do some cookies and couldn't make of my mind as to which to do. These will do it.

Pam, you really like those mats?  I was given some and have not tried them yet.  I've heard mixed reviews as to how well t hey brown.  I know what I'll do!!!  I'll so one of them there 'speriments by doing some on bakin' sheet and some on  the mats and   then observe which is gooder and the write an article with pictures for Bon Appiteteee and become famous.

Dee

I just use parchment.....nothing to wash

I do too, at the restaurant supply place they have a box of 1000 full size sheets for about $40.  The box lasts 3 or 4 years and I give tons away.  I only use 1/2 sheet at a time so it's really 2000 sheets.    I think King Arthur charges $20 for 100 1/2 sheets (though theirs is thicker but the thickness is not needed)

[Pam Gould]

I have tried the parchment and they work real well, but I keep running out and forgetting to get more..so I started with the silicone and have never looked back..Even the cheap ones work, so get your best price.. When I'm done I just use soap and water while leaving the silicone sheet on the pan. wash and rinse, makes it so much easier to wash with the pan still there. Then dry and done. I probably have 10 of the half sheet pans..I do bake a lot. The full size pans are great too, also the 1/4 sheet pans fit perfectly in my smoker. I have them at home and the camper.  Pam  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི

[deb415611]

I probably have 10 of the half sheet pans..I do bake a lot. The full size pans are great too, also the 1/4 sheet pans fit perfectly in my smoker. I have them at home and the camper.  Pam  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི

I have 6 1/2, 4 1/4 ,  and a couple of 2/3 sheet pans - a really good size for bringing things in and outside from the smoker

[Pam Gould]

I agree with you there..I always put 2 pans together and bring the dirty one in and wash and still have one out there in just case it's needed..saves a few steps.  Pam  .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི

[veryolddog]

Speaking of "silpats", I just read an article about them that said that cookies come out thinner on silpats because the surface is slippery and non stick which allows the cookie dough to flatten out. Therefore, you do not have the "plump" cookie but what you get are flat cookies.

Have any of you noticed this?

Ed