Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie
Submitted by 3dognite
The ultimate chocolate chip cookie with brown sugar, butter-flavored shortening, and pecans. Choose your style: bake 8 minutes for soft and chewy or 13 minutes for golden and crisp.
YIELD
36 servingsPREP
20 minCOOK
10 minREADY
30 minEvery baker needs that one chocolate chip cookie recipe they can make with their eyes closed. This is the one.
Butter-flavored shortening and packed brown sugar create a dough that’s rich with caramel-like sweetness, while a full tablespoon of vanilla (yes, a tablespoon) makes the flavor sing.
Semi-sweet chocolate chips and pecans fill every bite with crunch and melty chocolate goodness.
The real genius here is the bake time: pull them at 8 minutes for soft, gooey centers, or let them go to 13 for a satisfying snap. Your kitchen, your rules.
Kitchen Tips
- Do NOT overbake. The cookies should look slightly underdone when you pull them. They firm up as they cool
- Let cookies rest on the baking sheet for 2 minutes before moving to a rack. Moving them too soon means breakage
- Drop dough 3 inches apart since these spread as they bake
- Brown sugar is the only sugar here, which is what gives these cookies their chewy texture and deep butterscotch notes
- Chill the dough for 30 minutes if it feels too soft for scooping
Ingredients
Directions
Heat oven to 375℉ (190℃).
Cream shortening, brown sugar, milk, and vanilla in large bowl.
Blend until creamy. Blend in egg. Combine flour, salt, and baking soda.
Add to creamed mixture, gradually. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts.
Drop rounded Tablespoonfuls (about 2 measuring tablespoons) of dough 3 inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.
Bake at 375 8 to 10 minutes for chewy cookies (they will look light and moist) DO NOT OVERBAKE or 11 to 13 minutes for crisp cookies.
Cool on baking sheet 2 minutes.
Remove to cooling rack.
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