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  • Every cook needs a great go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe. There's nothing that creates

  • smiles or warms up a house better than the smell of cookie baking in the oven. Start

  • by pre-heating your oven to 375 degrees. Place half a cup of softened butter in large bowl

  • and add 1/2 cup of shortening. The combination of shortening and butter, the decadent tasting

  • and chewy textured cookie. Beat the butter and shortening with an electric mixer on medium

  • to high-speed for 30 seconds. Add one cup of packed brown sugar, 1/2 of granulated sugar,

  • 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda and 1/2 of teaspoon of salt. Starting on low speed beat the mixture

  • to combine. Increase the speed to high, scraping down the sides from time to time-- you're

  • creaming the sugar, butter and shortening here, and to look lighter in texture and color

  • about 3 minutes. Add 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon of vanilla and beat them in until they're combined. Gradually, add 2 and

  • 3 quarter cups of flour blended in low speed until it's just incorporated. Stir in any

  • remaining flour with a spoon. Now, you're ready to add the chocolate chips. You'll need

  • a 12-ounce bag of semi-sweet chocolate pieces. You can also use candy-coated semi-sweet chocolate

  • pieces if you prefer. Go ahead, just stir them right in. If you'd like nuts in your cookies, you can

  • add 1-1/2 cups of toasted chopped walnuts, pecans or hazelnuts, whichever you prefer.

  • Of course, you can always leave them out. Drop the dough by rounded teaspoons onto an

  • ungreased cookie sheet about 2 inches apart or using a small cookie scoop for easy-handling

  • and uniform sizing. Bake the cookies in batches in the oven until the edges are just light

  • brown, about 8 to 9 minutes. Cool the cookies on a cookie sheet for 2 minutes then transfer

  • them to a wire rack to cool completely. The best way to store the cookies is to layer

  • them between sheets of waxed paper in a covered air-tight container. You can store them at

  • room temperature for up to 3 days or freeze them for up to 3 months.

Every cook needs a great go-to chocolate chip cookie recipe. There's nothing that creates

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