First, I feel like I should explain something about the last post not having a title. I didn’t catch it until it was posted to Facebook, and by that time my subscribers had already received an e-mail with a cryptic number in the subject line. If you, like my mother, reread the article obsessively trying to figure out what that number meant, I apologize.
My dad had two requests for Father’s Day: deviled eggs and chocolate chip cookies. There are certain people I associate with different foods — my mother with Caramel Apple Coffee Cake, snickerdoodles with a friend, sugar cookies and Grandpa — and chocolate chip cookies will always make me think of my daddy. It is such a wonderful ego boost to be baking these cookies and have him come through the kitchen and tell me how amazing they smell and what a wonderful daughter I am. I suppose baking chocolate chip cookies is one of my ways of telling him what a wonderful father he is.
Real Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup butter, softened
¾ cups sugar
¾ cups brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
2 ¼ cups flour (I use 1 cup whole wheat and the rest white, unbleached)
6-8 ounces chocolate chips.
In a large bowl combine butter sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla. stir until creamy. Beat in eggs, one at a time.
Add baking soda and salt, then stir. Gradually add flours. Mix well before stirring in chocolate chips.
Drop by rounded spoonfuls of dough onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 375°F for 7-9 minutes, or until the edges are just starting to turn golden brown.
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