Chocolate Chip Cookies

[Barbara]

Okay, it is too late for this Thanksgiving but does anyone have a tried and true recipe for chocolate cookies that doesn't fail? I have use the recipe on the back of the Toll House chips and it never works.

Thanks

[michelle]

This is my favorite, Barbara. It's never let me down....

1 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 small pkg instant vanilla pudding mix
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
12 oz semi-sweet chocolate chips

Heat oven to 375. Beat butter, sugars, pudding mix, eggs, and vanilla in large bowl w/ electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. Mix in flour and baking soda. Stir in chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls, 2 inches apart, on cookie sheet.

Bake 10 min's or until golden brown. Remove from cookie sheets and cool on wire racks. Makes about 6 dozen cookies.

[Barbara]

Thanks Michelle. I will give them a try and hopefully redeem myself for Christmas.

[teachermom]

the Toll house recipe - butter flavor Crisco and really god vanilla - that's the secret.

[Barbara]

the Toll house recipe - butter flavor Crisco and really god vanilla - that's the secret.

My sister and I were discussing this and came to the conclusion that using butter was the failure in both her's (peanut butter) and mine (toll house cookies) recipes. I normally have butter flavored Crisco but didn't so I used all butter. Everyone loved their taste, they just looked...

My cousin came this summer and her dd made the most awesome chocolate chip cookies. You could tell she didn't use the toll house recipe. My dd asked her for her recipe and I have asked her twice. Each time she says "I will send to you later". Later has yet to ever come. I just wished she would come out and say "I don't give it out" since apparently she doesn't. She is too young (12) to have memory issues.

[teachermom]

I would say that at 12 she might be too YOUNG to realize that you really want it. Also, teens are so good at "yeah, yeah, yeah" and never getting around to it...

Try the ones with pudding in them - my great aunt makes them with chocolate pudding and they are wonderful! It's pretty much the tollhouse recipe but with pudding added.

btw - that's good vanilla, not god vanilla.

[Barbara]

btw - that's good vanilla, not god vanilla.

I didn't even catch that. I have "good" vanilla. I thought about trying Michelle's and then there was one in a Guidepost magazine and finally I was going to go back to the Toll House trying just Crisco.

I know 12 is young but ...when our family says they will do something, they do it. This seems so odd to not be able to get it from her. Did I mention they were wonderful. They were so different from anything I had ever had before. They were a "hard" cookie with chocolate chips.

[michelle]

They were a "hard" cookie with chocolate chips.

Chips Ahoy?

[Barbara]

They were a "hard" cookie with chocolate chips.

Chips Ahoy?

They were on that order only soooooooooo much better. Of course that has never stopped me from eating Chips Ahoys.

[Lucy]

We have made these several times and they are consistently WONDERFUL:
http://flashbangfibers.blogspot.com/201 ... tmeal.html