Here is a simple recipe for delicious, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate chip cookies.  It’s so simple that a borrowed 5 year-old did most of this work at the Football House. 

The secret to a good cookie is

butter.

You will need:

• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter  (that’s 2 sticks) softened
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 and 1/4 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 12 oz. chocolate chips

In a large mixing bowl, combine sugars, softened butter, egg, & vanilla.  I like to mix it with an electric mixer.  Then I add the baking soda & salt and give it another good stir with my electric mixer.  No one wants to find a hunk of baking soda in their cookie.  Am I right?  Add the flour bit by bit & after sneaking a few chocolate chips, pour the bag in! 

Now it’s ready to be spooned onto a cookie sheet.  Baking times will vary between 8-10 minutes.  If you’re using stoneware, it will take about 12 minutes. 

Pour a glass of milk, insert cookie, & enjoy!